Sunday, January 20, 2008
Topics in 2008
What are the issues that are important to you all in this coming election? My first issue would be foreign policy. We first have to make sure we stop upsetting people around the world. Second, public goods on a whole. Americans need to stop seeing public goods as a free hand out or a corrupt system. People need to start caring about their neighbor again. Universal Health Care is not going to work if people can't buy into the system and not monetarily, but I mean by using the system properly. Use what you need from the system by staying healthy and making smart decisions. Second, we need to get back our public transportation system. Stop relying so much on cars - bike, ride the bus, ride the train. These aren't punishments for the poor - these are solid ways to get from place to place. There are other such public goods that are country yearns for, but the one we don't is defense systems. I'm not sure how much more we can poor into our military and take from the needs of our country. Foreign diplomacy is built on trust networks between nations, not fear of a large military force. However, maybe we need to spend on the military because heavens knows we can't and may never properly use public goods. We will want to use whatever we get and not care what happens to the system as a result. Are we even sure we're ready for this? I hope these comments stir some comments from y'all.
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My biggest issue this year is how to pick the politician that lies the least for president. I want the candidate that will cut government spending the most while still accomplishing reasonable promises. The best way to cut spending? Military. Cut it, big time. Get out of Iraq. Quit ticking Islam nations off by throwing money and weapons at Israel. End the grudge with Cuba.
I don't even want to see what they will come up with for universal health care because it will probably be seriously flawed and irreversible.
I do agree with the public goods thing. People need to start looking out for themselves more. Everyone is demanding government action on the economy. Maybe we should just let the economy go through its natural cycles and instead tell people to be smart with their money. If businesses fail during the next year, it's probably because they were too poorly run to survive a bad stretch. Thus, I favor only minor economic policies, the first of which would be to tell the media to shut up about it already and stop causing people to panic.
Wow, I am angry today.
Joe Joe. It would be nice to have the President that lies the least, but those people never seem to win. If you say what you think you end up upsetting people who maybe would have voted for you or for you wil be unduly criticized by the media.
As for the public goods. I don't think that people should start looking out for themselves. Just the opposite. I think people need to watch out for others. The U.S. needs to network and not just in the business sense. We need to start understanding the weight our decisions have and take full responsibility for them.
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