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ANYONE on welfare should not be allowed to vote. They keep voting to raise taxes since taxes cover their checks. Look at Cali where we keep approving tax increases across the board because welfare voters nearly match working voters. The social leeches have their thumbs on the scales here, and it's unfair.
I agree with everything on your list, except this. I love the USPS, but it needs to be run like a business, not a piggy bank for Congress. The system is fantastic, but it's being managed into the ground, and they lose money every year because of their ridiculous retirement packages. Close all unneeded POs and fire under performing employees. Bring pension obligations back to reasonable levels. The USPS would be wildly successful if it were managed properly.
Where are you getting your information - "fair-and-balanced" conservative media??
** When was the USPS a "piggy bank" for government? It was solvent on its own until the republican "postal reform" act of 2006 which, by design, started its demise by not allowing it to be run like a business. The private delivery services UPS and FEDEX rely on it today to keep their own costs and prices down. What does that tell you? Don't you ever wonder what those UPS trucks are doing at your local post office? They are dropping off "non-cost-effective" packages for USPS to deliver.
** The amount of taxpayer money afforded your welfare recipient "social leeches" - meaning the poor - pales in comparison to that afforded the rich. No problem there? Just unaware?
You might consider ditching whatever "news" source you are presently relying on.
Solution - repeal the postal reform act and allow USPS to expand and diversify its services.
Solution - cut welfare to billion-dollar-profit corporations who don't need it.
Solution - cut loopholes and offshoring which allow the wealthy to dodge taxes. Tax capital gains the same as wages and salaries.
I think #1 is a little extreme, but the general idea is correct. How do you figure #3 is a bad idea?
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Simplifying our tax code does not mean taking out your anger on those who earn more.
Until the GOP drops the "taxes are punishment" mantra, we won't really be able to solve our problems.
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If you have the first bit of a fair education in economics you will know Krugman's theories are resoundingly poor.
LOL WUT?
Krugman got his degrees in economics from two of the most prestigious schools in the world, teaches economics at another prestigious school, was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics...and yet anyone with a bit of "fair education" in that field would know better than him?
That logic failure made the Hindenburg landing look like a joke.
Just curious if you were in office of your government.....what things what you like to see changed or modified?
Now besides some snarky remarks of,"A different President" or "More Republicans or Democrats?"
How can we examine our vulnerabilities, shortcomings and it's excess or inefficiency of our government?
And how would YOU fix it?
Close every US military base on foreign soil and disengage from interventionist meddling.
Repeal the Patriot Act, SOPA, and all victimless crime laws.
Repeal all asset forfeiture laws.
End the "Wars" on drugs and terror. We surrender!
Reinstate Glass Stegal.
Demilitarize law enforcement and hold the police accountable for misconduct.
Reserved parking spots. As near as I can tell, we now have spots reserved for the handicapped, mothers of small children, old people, compact car drivers, the gluten-intolerant, people with repressed memories and those with anxiety disorders.
Now, I'm fine with allowing the disabled the closest parking spaces, even though 95% of the time, the person emerging from the vehicle is morbidly obese. I'm okay with walking from two corn fields away to get in the store. I really am. I think what drove me over the edge a couple weeks ago is when I went to the library, where there are parking meters, only to find as I got up to the handicapped spots, that they had removed the meters. Can someone explain the logic to this? When you do, will you please take a plunger, press it over your face and then just give it a really good shove about a dozen times?
Just curious if you were in office of your government.....what things what you like to see changed or modified?
Now besides some snarky remarks of,"A different President" or "More Republicans or Democrats?"
How can we examine our vulnerabilities, shortcomings and it's excess or inefficiency of our government?
And how would YOU fix it?
We treat our middle and working classes like crap. I want guaranteed vacation, guaranteed health care, a higher minimum wage. Basically, I want more socialism. As much as the grandstanding goes on and on, we haven't gotten much more socialism from this administration. We are all compelled to purchase health care. That is NOT socialism. We should all be GIVEN health care, free of charge.
And you know what? It doesn't just benefit poor and middle class people. It benefits rich people too. You no longer need to provide employer-sponsored health care? Bigger profits. Your employees are making more money via higher minimum wage and no health care deductions? More more to spend on your products.
I want so much more, and it doesn't seem to be coming. Just about ready to give up on this country.
I have a lot of beefs, now that I think about it. Here are some other changes begging to be made:
1. Prison sentences for people who go over the maximum limit for the express lane at the grocery store. This, in conjunction, with heavy fines for every dipshoot who stands in line for 5 minutes and then waits until everything is scanned to get out her purse and fumble for her checkbook/cash and coupons.
2. A decent goodamned national anthem. We have plenty of patriotic songs to choose from and we choose an absolute turd that sucks as piece of music and compounds the suckitude with its crappy lyrics.
3. A moratorium on any apologies made by any individual to any group. If someone has harmed someone, they need to apologize to particular people. Enough already with these spectacles of people making these forced apologies everyone knows they don't mean.
4. Conversion of all four-way stops to roundabouts. They're safer and more efficient. Our elected officials need to develop some balls and ignore the only people who have a problem with them - Incompetent drivers and old people.
5. A voting system that doesn't produce pictures you would expect to see in a third-world country on election day. It's like we turn back the clock 150 years come November every four years.
6. A sports car produced by one of the Big Three that is in the same universe as the best of what comes out of Italy or Germany.
7. Cities spending billions to keep/attract pro sports teams. I don't know that I need to elaborate on this one. A special place in hell for those right-wingers who ordinarily decry this kind of stuff, but then give an exception for pro sports, because they're sports geeks.
8. Hollywood. You officially ran out of new ideas 20 years ago. Close it down. You are the equivalent of a backed-up toilet.
America would best be served by a Royal Imperial Committee, preferably 7 regional emperors who would then reign supreme over the American democracy judiciously and benevolently enough. Having 535 bribed clowns has done nothing for Congress and our elections for all federal positions are silly jokes. So let's adopt a fully royal Democratic Monarchy. States, counties and municipalities can have barons, duchesses, whatever they care for but they must be made royal.
One emperor from each region of the country selected by the most successful/profitable of the corporations in the region. Bloodlines would be irrelevant. Democratic participation on the individual resident level would depend by how much they have remitted in tithes to the regional court and their personal influence. Things would get done and so what if non-producers have no say? If they don't do anything to merit a say then they have nothing to say.
This could really change America for the better but Americans are just to snideful of those with titles and money and evident power. It really isn't that scary!
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