Originally posted by: NeonAura
You want solutions from a "Liberal?" Our economy's in shambles. It's time to fix it. How's this for you:
1. Withdraw from Iraq. Large scale, in less than one year. It's time to cut our losses, it's a lose-lose situation. If we're there, we lose $5 billion per month and 1,800+ soldiers so far. This is unacceptable.
What will we gain by this?
2. Take away Bush's tax cuts to mainly the wealthiest 1% of Americans. It's time to forget about stupid Reaganomics and use real economics that really work. We could take the money from the taxes that the wealthy would be paying and put it towards education. In the next ten years, we could see the future leaders of America better prepared and the general public more informed to make the decisions of the country.
We already dump mass amounts of money into education. Care to explain how that really works? I thought the poor needed money now.
3. Cut government spending. Iraq- $5 billion per month, $500 billion so far. Enough is enough. NASA needs to go. Money is very much so wasted by our space endeavors. Nothing important has been yielded from space in the past thirty years. We need to take care of our own world before looking to other worlds. Also, we can get rid of the "goodies" that senators and politicians get. Tax write-offs, free money for vacations, etc.
You're clearly uneducated about the benefits of space travel. And I'm sure all those people will be happy to be out of work.
4. Increase relations with foreign countries. Many superpowers of the world are beginning to doubt the United States greatly. It's time to lift trade restrictions with China and get on their good side. By 2020, China will have the second most powerful economy in the world, barring that the United States screws up more. Russia also doubts us, France really doesn't like us, and many other countries feel pretty strongly against us.
And just how are you going to do that? Call them up and invite them out for pizza?
This is a perfect example of what a liberal will say. I'll do this and that, but there's no method to how.
I'm going to end poverty. That's what I'm going to do. You should believe me because I'm a democrat.
5. Increase trades with foreign countries. China predominantly needs to be traded with more. However, our neighbors, Mexico and Canada, could do with better trading with the US. If we help to improve Mexico's economy and standard of living, we wouldn't have to have such high restrictions on border control. Mexicans would want to stay in Mexico. It's also time to lift the embargo on Cuba. Enough is enough, Fidel even helped us with Katrina relief. Let's do them a favor and lift the embargo and give their people a better standard of living.
So you want to increase the trade deficit with China?!
Wow. You just lost all of the liberal vote. And in case you didn't know, there's something called NAFTA. Look it up.
6. Finally, we need to get rid of the fallacies in our government. Man, are we getting corrupted. This whole "Liberal-Conservative" bs is getting out of hand. It's time to vote people into office that are qualified, not those who are labeled by a party. We need to get rid of corruption in the form of cash under the table and payoffs to political icons. President Bush, like it or not, is buddies with the oil companies. They're in his pocket. This isn't right. They have more power than the average American citizen, and that's not the basis of our country. It's out of hand, buying off politicians is unethical and must be done away with.
Nice attack on Bush. Your liberal colors show. I got news for you, your pal Clinton wasn't a shiney penny either. Every politician has his or her price. It's sad that you have to go after Bush to try to justify yourself, but it only makes you look like a fool.
Today, we have some major problems that have to be fixed. I don't see Democrats nor Republicans aiming to get rid of them, they're not really that different. They only care for themselves and their image, greed and status. This has to end.
Every day we have major problems that need to be fixed. I don't think anyone can come up with a solution to end all the wrongs in the world overnight. Every day the forum liberals criticize Bush because they claim more people are in poverty now, but Clinton didn't wipe out poverty. The appologists get quiet quick. Again, the reality is none of these problems have an instant fix, yet everyone thinks their party can fix it tomorrow if they are elected.
I see more ideas and solutions coming from the right. All I see from the left is criticisms, and an occasional idea. If someone ran on the points you mentioned, I wouldn't vote for them either. You have provided no reasons for how you're going to accomplish what you want and why they are for the best. Even your post provided no direction for the future.
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