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Originally Posted by Jim B.
Get rid of corporate and multimillionaire political bribery
Get rid of deficit spending and balance the budget, live within your means.
Reduce fraud & waste in the military, cut the SIZE of the military and stop useless unwinnable foreign capers ander trying to be the policeman of the whole world
A fair taxation for all, same rate across the board, eliminate corporate tax dodges, off shore havens, accounting tricks.
Make welfare and food stamps for the poor realistically contingent and tied to, in some meaningful way --- with self improvement, education and population control and unfettered access to birth control and no crime and drug abuse, somehow in a way that gives self reliance, hope, direction and purpose.
Stop rewarding and making worthwhile illegal immigration
Repeal citizens United at the Supreme Court which in effect says corporate money = votes.
Death penalty for parking tickets (not really --- just making sure you are paying attention here)
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I agree with most of this. The problem directly in front of us is that what you have written is not what the right or left proposes now or has proposed in the past save moving towards a smaller military which the left seems to espouse.
I also think you are over confident that the right's political pull by big business changes voters habits at the ballot box- if it did we would have a different POTUS.
The left refuses to put more reasonable limits on welfare programs.
The left refuses to stop rewarding illegal immigrants.
The right refuses to close business loop holes which at one time were called incentives (when business figured out a way to make more money from these incentives ((which is exactly the reason they were put in place)) then they are called loop holes)
Neither side wants to live within it's means because it'll mean pain on the short term- and no politician wants to tell it's people the bad news.
I'd rather have the bad news up front and in detail so I can go about solving the issue- but voters then vote someone it who tells them it'll be great if you vote for me.... sound familiar?