Egann said:
SlayerRondo said:
thranx said:
SlayerRondo said:
At least you have different political parties in America.
In Australia and the UK, it's basically the social democrats or the social democrats and if they don't take your fancy you can vote for the other social democrats.
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for awhile that is how it was with repubs and dems. bush caused the repubs to get somewhat back to their roots of small government. More importanlty i think the tea party has had an overall positive effect on the repubs too. My hope though is that the tea party becomes its own party, and that the republicans stop being a party altoghter. than we can have a small government party and the dems. i know who i would vote for
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I am with you on that front.
It always struck me that when the tea party struck they focused on the 1% of racist and extremist in the media.
But when occupy wall street occured, despite having an absurd number of condlicting ideologies between those attending they received very little criticizm.
What I want out of a political party is both social and economic freedom.
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Ditto. I lean conservative myself, but I don't really mind safety nets if they're put together smartly. Take Obamacare; many of the ideas were decent, but no one writing the law did research on what the effects would actually be. Most minimum wage jobs got cut back to 30 hours a week, and millions of plans got cancelled because our politicians failed to ask McDonalds, "what would you do if you had to pay healthcare for every employee who works more than 30 hours a week?"
Is doing some basic due diligence before passing a bill which affects 300 million people too much to ask?
On the elections, I like it when the president is one party and the legislature is the other. When people bicker, less gets done, and when less gets done the rest of us can just go live our lives in peace.
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I manage a restaurant, and fortunatly we are an independant so we dont have to give health care to workers who work over 30 hours a week. so most of my coworkers get 30-40 hours a week. But all of their freinds have to work two jobs to get those hours, and still get no health care. Most places only give 20 or less hours a week. I agree very much that if you are going to regulate it has to be smartly, and with the assumption that companies and poeple will walk the line with these regulations. Its sad that reguation intened to help the most unfortunate usally hurts them.
