America: Land of the Free and Home of the Bull Shit.

[rossmum]

That video should be required viewing not just for every American but for every person full stop

[Bodzilla]

i know, was a fucking brilliant vid.

It's been a core belief of mine since i woke up to myself when i was about 16, and realized that anyone spurting that shit is not only stupid, but dangerous.
there can be no concession
no turning back
everyone should have their fucking rights and if you dont think so.... well quiet frankly, fuck you.
because you don't deserve your rights.

Rights are not up for discussion in terms of gender, race, characteristics, skin colour, belief... the only time it can ever be safely discussed is for the collective as a whole, because the second you make concessions on other people you dont just hurt them, you hurt yourself.
I just wish to god people woke up to this outright horse-shit already.

there can never be a truly dominant majority if we want to survive and prosper as a species.

[rossmum]

It's actually funny in a really depressing way that our survival instincts have become so fucked up and perverse over time that they almost prove to do the opposite

[sleepy1212]

The screwed up thing is we've got people from all kinds of views spouting that shit at everyone else. Against, gays, blacks, against whites, middle class, the rich, jews, mexicans, christians, muslims, capitalists, socialists, etc...we pretty much have it all. And we can blame it all on the politics and media who stand to benefit most from a divided citizenry. And then blame ourselves, all over the world, for not having the balls to get angry and take some real action. Not just in america but everywhere, your government is fucking you.

Things to make the US great again.

1. Term limits for Senators and House Members. particularly majority leaders
2. Abolish IRS, institute national %5 sales tax. 10-15, or higher or we never get out of debt
3. Limit disability and unemployment. limit the number of recipients
4. Close Mexican border, and grant amnesty with accelerated disposition towards citizenship for all illegals.
5. Mandatory judicial review.
6. Lying about campaign promises would constitute fraud, a felony. (Would obviously take a revision of Article 1 of the constitution.)
7. All states declare sovereignty.
8. Bar the usage of education/highway subsidies as extortion against states who do not follow federal directives that were not ratified by a unanimous vote in the legislature.
9. Put the dollar back on the gold standard.
10. Reduce defense spending by 8%. Allocate to education.
11. PayGo spending instead of borrowing against things like social security.
12. Consolidate intelligence communities (not a great idea, but it's an idea).
13. Disallow federal government employees and elect to join a company with a net worth greater than 10 Million dollars after dismissal/retirement.

We also need to get rid of artificially high prices (healthcare, insurance, tuition & books are some examples) which are guaranteed because the government pays for them most of the time. (Just try taking a class out-of-pocket and you'll want to murder someone.) It's a huge waste of taxpayer money that could easily be redirected toward improving those institutions rather than their profits.

Don't forget medicare,aid, and what not. It needs to go. it's close to making up the single largest part of our debt if it isn't already. Social programs are luxuries we can't afford right now.

[Limited]

Your not alone, UK is in dyer-straights right now. I have literally lost all faith in our politics. Politicians bending the rules for their gain, one politician used government expenses, to pay for fucking pet food. Taxpayers money, to pay for petfood. All I hear now is "oh the last government really fucked up, so we will have to make cuts CUTS CUTS.Everyday, its X amount of jobs having to be cut.

Original post is pretty wishy washy, doesn't really contain any real information, so I'm a little bit uneducated about "the problems". I thought Obama was going to start a fresh, be a new leaf, has he just not followed his promises?

[INSANEdrive]

Everything is objective. Everyone is right or they would not put their name on it. Everyone is wrong because it conflicts what you just signed.

...and everything else in-between. (This is why there is a political civil war happening right now, as it has for some time).

This world would be so boring if it was simple. Were it so easy.
Well...at least you got to vent here...where it can do nothing. Its safer that way.

Have a nice day.

[Bodzilla]

Hey rest of the world, sounds like you guys need this cool thing called superannuation.

Signed australia.

[CN3089]

Things to make the US great again.

1. Abolish IRS, institute national %5 sales tax.
2. Limit disability and unemployment.

Don't forget medicare,aid, and what not. It needs to go. it's close to making up the single largest part of our debt if it isn't already. Social programs are luxuries we can't afford right now.

Yeah man, fuck the poor, I got mine!

[*] Put the dollar back on the gold standard.

Insane.

[Cojafoji]

Really? Insane? Giving our money an actual physical backing is insane? I'd like to think that it's not.

Now, if you had said, impossible, or far fetched, I would have agreed; but insane? No.

If you borrow on credit, which a nation is forced to do from time to time, it's better to have their ability to repay debts with tangible scarce resources rather than promises and BS. Learn to economy. Not saying that US citizens should be able to redeem gold with cash, but saying that foreign governments should be able to. We have a massive federal gold reserve doing nothing. Fuck Nixon for that.

Edit: If you're going to contribute to a politically polarized thread, make sure that what you do contribute has substance.

[thehoodedsmack]

Uhh... seriously?

I'm not sure if you've fully considered what would happen if the US went on a gold standard, or any physically redeemable standard.

Hypothetically, if one dollar becomes redeemable for an ounce of gold, or silver, or steel, then international finance gets fucked. Suddenly the value of the dollar isn't dependent on the economic well-being of the country, but on the scarcity of the resource. It is insane.