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1.  Balance budget/budget surplus -  This one is a given yet the idiots that calls  themselves politicians can't even manage this.  Americans even elected republicans to go in there and fix the budget which they managed to trim what a few million off the budget.  Good job now make the tough choices and cut medicare, social security, and medicaid.  It is obvious that the cost of drugs/healthcare are spiraling out of control.  The medicaid bill that Bush pushed into was a backdoor agreement with the prescription drug companies.  The USA government can't even bargain for lower drug prices.  If you are suffering from an illness that is caused by your own addiction (cigarettes, alcohol, overeating) then you deserve to die without causing tax payers money.  If you have type 2 diabetes that was brought on by eating non stop then tough luck you deserve to foot the bill.  Americans need to stop trying to be so damn "compassionate".  Creating a surplus is the most important thing for USA at this moment.

2.  Abolish the two party system winner takes all for multi-party proportional representation - The two party system is terrible. Both major parties in USA are complete shit.  They are all corrupt and don't even deserve to be elected.  The winner takes all system is complete bullshit.  They say your vote counts but it doesn't if your person doesn't win.  At least with a porportional representation system your vote isn't totally wasted.  Say your party recieved about 10% of the votes.  Well they would at least have a few seats instead of zero.  There are also more than two ways of looking at one problem.  The smaller parties can get some of their goals acheieved since the major parties have to court them for whatever they want achieved.

3. Abolish the electoral college - This piece of shit idea might have been great back in the day but it is long overdue to get rid of this.  Sure when the first elections were held not too many people were educated enough to make a decent vote due to people not being able to read, news was only in newspapers, etc...  However, there is no need for this system to decide the presidential election.  They say your votes counts yet when you vote for the president if your state votes against you then your vote is worthless.  The presidential election should be decided by overall vote not by which states vote for who.  If the electoral college wasn't there then Bush would have never been president. 

4. Abolish the Fed - Burn their damn building down.  Kick them out of the country.  They serve no purpose and USA would be better off than having the fed ruin everything.  They don't know shit and every time I see Ben Bernanke I want to puke all over him.  Ben Bernanke only knows how to print money.  Well that turned the dollar into shit just so he could bail out piece of shit companies that deserved to go under.  He only serves one purpose, to help his buddies at Goldman Sachs out.  If someone can tell me one good reason why the fed should stay then let me know.

5. Stop being the world police force - I shouldn't even have to discuss this issue.  The Monroe Doctrine started the policing and it needs to stop now.  Being the world police force is just a waste of money and lives.  I am all for war if attacked.

 

While I believe there are more steps that can be taken to help the USA such as legalize marijuana for taxation; I feel these steps are needed to be taken first.  USA is on a quick slope of decline yet Americans are just sitting around taking it.  It is about to we stand up and fight.  It is time to say fuck you to the corrupt politicians and lobbyist.  It is time to kick them out.  It is time to get rid of our outdated shitty political system.  It is time to make USA great again, or we can just let our country go into further shit.



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I came in here expecting to read a load of shit, but, instead, found that I agreed with just about every point (note that I only read the opening sentence of each point).



I agree with 1 slightly, 2 completely, but 3-5, never. The Electoral College functions properly in the Federal system that this country is



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Mr Khan said:

I agree with 1 slightly, 2 completely, but 3-5, never. The Electoral College functions properly in the Federal system that this country is


Why would you keep the Fed Reserve?

But, I agree, I actually quite like the electoral college.



I like the electoral college. Its a great way to balance the system and force politicians to campaign and learn about areas of the country and cater to the under-represented.

#2 is semi-retarded. What do you want them to do? Yes, we need more parties, but giving proportional representation would be a great way to get some nut jobs in power.

Otherwise, 1, 4 and 5 are good. How we do it, though, is going to be difficult. No one wants to cut the government by doing things that effect them. Look at the venom from the public unions in Ohio and Wisconsin. Even the most staunch Republican began to hate Kasich in Ohio once he started pushing for SB5. We either suffer today, or generations suffer tomorrow.



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SamuelRSmith said:
Mr Khan said:

I agree with 1 slightly, 2 completely, but 3-5, never. The Electoral College functions properly in the Federal system that this country is


Why would you keep the Fed Reserve?

But, I agree, I actually quite like the electoral college.

I tend to have a fondness for these 20th century institutions that are generally the backbone of modern America. The noise against the fed is just anti-Keynesian hysteria



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SamuelRSmith said:

I came in here expecting to read a load of shit, but, instead, found that I agreed with just about every point (note that I only read the opening sentence of each point).


I'm not sure i'd "burn" the fed though.  Just make restrict them so they stop creating bubbles.


As for proportional representation.  I think it would work best on the state level, rather then national.  As the US is still so big it needs various representatives tied to different areas.



FYI If the Electorial College were abolished, only the states/ cities with large populations would get visited. The midwest and most of the West would be passed up for a handful of states. There is a reason the system is there. And as for the two party system...sorry, but the way the demographics are, there will ALWAYS be two major parties. You could get rid of both current parties, and two more would take their place.



"with great power, comes great responsibility."

5. Stop being the world police force - I shouldn't even have to discuss this issue.  The Monroe Doctrine started the policing and it needs to stop now.  Being the world police force is just a waste of money and lives.  I am all for war if attacked.

 I agree with. Some of the other's I agree with but it's not so simple as there are adverse consequences. There's adverse consequences with 5. But simply, the US is not supposed to be batman imo.

I also propose we use male and female prostitutes as the currency.



Kasz216 said:
SamuelRSmith said:

I came in here expecting to read a load of shit, but, instead, found that I agreed with just about every point (note that I only read the opening sentence of each point).


I'm not sure i'd "burn" the fed though.  Just make restrict them so they stop creating bubbles.

And... how do you propose doing that? Obviously, the real problem lies with fiat money... we need to return to some kind of asset based currency... what that asset is, though, I have no idea.