What is the LARGEST domestic issue our Country faces today? Details.?

Question

I am not looking for the Bush Bashers or the Conservitive haters. Other then what we know you dont like.
What about this country domestically is wrong? How can it be repaired?

So, some of you prefer socialism?
Get something for nothing?
Free Healthcare? You must not have paid any attention to how Canada is running theirs.

Answer 1

illegal immigration who really hurt US tax payer and ruin citizen and crowded population,crime , over load school and hospital , welfare benefits healtcare should be for citizens not for illegal even they are not belong here.

secure the border first.

Put citizen on the top and do it american WILL , kick out senate congress leader who traitor and just care about their self.

#1.Secure our borders. As first priority, America must stop the flow of illegal immigration by investing all necessary resources in securing our borders. Also, existing immigration laws must be enforced as an essential component of our Homeland Security.


#2 -- No Amnesty. I oppose any form of amnesty for illegal aliens, including the “temporary worker” proposal or any proposals that grant legal residency status or citizenship to illegal aliens.

Aggressive deportation. Immediate investment in aggressive effort to deport the 12 million illegal immigrants currently within our borders – if you’re caught, you are sent back.


#3. No benefits. Erect a wall of separation between illegal aliens (and their children) and tax-dollar paid benefits reserved for U.S. citizens and legal aliens. I support H.R. 418 that prohibits illegal aliens from being issued drivers licenses and prevents terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States.


#4. No work. Stricter punishment of U.S. businesses that knowingly employ illegal aliens. Establish national database of legal immigrants to assist both public and private sectors in this effort.


#5.English first. Legislation that establishes English as the required and preeminent language throughout the United States. Public and private sectors cannot be required to provide services in alternative languages.


#6. No Birthright Citizenship. Illegals flood to the U.S. simply to have babies—which are then granted citizenship. Changing the current law is certain to curtail the illegal traffic.

Must be fix because to little to late :
http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/candidates2006.html

http://grades.betterimmigration.com/

Answer 2

You can't be serious in a time when big corporations are dumping the retirement funds of the little guy and then claiming bankruptcy... But giving the rich in this country bonuses for doing it. In a time when the deficit is sky rocketing and the neo-cons are cutting taxes of the wealthy far more than the middle class and leaving the middle class and poor to pay the bill... In a time when medical costs are sky rocketing and the rich who control the companies are cutting medical benefits. When school loans and education is not a priority cause it only effects the middle class and poor cause the rich can go to private schools and you want someone to not point out that the republicans shoulder the blame Last week I visited a little old lady who has parkinsons and lives in a trailer on $485 Social Security with rent is $410 and lives on 75.00 a month for food and drugs... This is one of many that I visit in a years time trying to help... You haven't a clue and neither do the republicans of the direction this country needs to take. As an Airline Mechanic that worked for 35 years for a major airline and then had the company dump my retirement on the taxpayer and then gave the top 400 managers 400 million dollars in stock to share for doing a good job as they came out of bankruptcy. You can't be serious that the Republican party and GWB should remain blameless... There are so many problems in this country now including the republicans trampling on the Constitution that they can't name them all. Open your eyes and quit look looking at everyting through your check book and you'll see the problems

Answer 3

Time for an over throw of our so called government, not just Federal.

The people need to take the power back as the fore fathers intended. Not corrupt politicians, secret societies, large business.

Its time for Americans to follow up what our parents and grand parents started and built. Not sit around and get fat on fast food and being a couch potato.

We built the Hoover dam during a depression. We finished the Panama Canal after 2 other countries failed. Yet we can't even clean up a few hundred miles of coast line. Yet we have unemployment. Yet we have an immigration problem.

We need a government like Teddy Roosevelt. A take charge type of person on the home front.

We are suppose to be the bread basket for the world. We are suppose to lend our hand out to the world when aid is needed. Like a mother we are suppose to take care of the children.

But in my eyes the mother has grown tired and weak. She needs a rest, a refocus on herself. So she can become strong again to better help the world.

We use to be the king of the hill in many areas...science, mechanics, medicine, autos......what are we really no. 1 in now besides causing problems?

Answer 4

The economy is the biggest issue. The problem is, this "Domestic" problem has fingers that reach out all over the globe.
Our manufacturing has completely disappeared, our service industries are even being outsourced, or going to underpaid migrant workers.
The compounding debt and social security are connected to economics.
The problem isn't here though, it's in Mexico, and India, and China. It's the consequences of a global economy. We are now competing with huge cheap labor pools around the world, and trying to maintain our standard of living.
The solution? Well unless we force all other countries to follow our standards of living, labor laws, and other rules, we must lower our wages to compete, which means either more working poor in our country, and a bigger gap between the rich and the poor, or.... The economy collapses?

Answer 5

I can give you five I think need to be fixed.

Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. The current philosophy of ever increasing debt mortgages our children’s future and could collapse our economy. A reasonable amount of debt fixed by GDP or some other productivity measure would be allowed.

Every American citizen should have universal access to affordable health care and a way to pay for it.

No American Citizen should be forced to work in a job that pays less than the federal poverty level. New workers with limited experience or under 18 years of age could be paid a training wage.

Every American should be able to choose which school their children attend. Schools must be allowed to compete if they are to improve.

Our borders are to be respected, illegal immigration will be stopped. If you want to work in this country you must do it legally and you must respect our laws, our culture and our flag or you will be sent back to wherever you came from.

Answer 6

I believe the Largest domestic issue our Country faces starts with our children and is the absolute breakdown of morals and family. To many children are being physically, mentally, emotionally, and verbally abused, or their parents just don't care. Many also have parents who demonstrate how to be irrational when angered and lash out. If you listen to stats on a serial killer's childhood there has most always been abuse. I know that there is a great debate about nature vs. nurture, but it seems to me nurture forms the child. I honestly believe the old saying "children learn what they live and live what they learn" is so true. If GOD was brought back into our homes and schools, and respect was taught for others, society would eventually fix its self.

Answer 7

1. Abortion. I have hashed and re-hashed my feelings on this issue many times, including a couple of times recently right here on Yahoo! Answers, and it's late, and I really don't feel like going to war on this EXTREMELY personal issue again tonight. So please spare me.

2. Education. After you have your entire young generation at your disposal, you're going to have to provide them with a better system of education than the incompetent crap-fest that is just about every public school in the United States today. School vouchers, more teachers, more schools, or the abolishment of public education altogether in favor of private and home schooling. I really don't care what exactly you do, as long as, this time, you actually do SOMETHING!!! (other than just throwing more dollars and more dollars at it in the same old ways, hoping that, maybe, the problems will just magically go away)

3. Middle East Policy and the War On Terror. Not only are the two both extremely important in their own rights, but recent experience has shown me that the two are permanently, irreversibly linked. Both issues must be dealt with justly and fairly, and that judgment must be implemented with neither mercy nor pity. The issue we are discussing here is the very survival of not only the United States, but western, Judeo-Christian civilization itself, which will be forcibly destroyed if we fail. (How do I know they will totally destroy it? Well, they DID try to wipe it out twice already, coming within a hair's breadth of succeeding both times)

4. Illegal Immigration. Duh.

Answer 8

Hate to say it, but a lot of domestic policy is at fault with Bush and the conservatives. They are currently in the majority and making most of the major laws and polices and pushing them through.

The most pressing domestic issue right now is probably Social Security. Lots of baby boomers are going to start collecting and there's not enough money to go around and the younger adult of today who are paying into the system are likely to never see a dime.
Social Security will likely be torn apart in my lifetime.

Answer 9

Our biggest domestic problem is public education.

Far too many High School students today are completely unprepared for any sort of job. In past generations, college was only for a small minority. Now, college seems to barely cover up the glaring deficiencies of a high school education.

I remember seeing a Kansas High School exit exam posted on the Internet. It dated from the 1800s. Most college students would absolutely flunk this test. How can we have regressed so far? My father went to grade school in the typical one room school house in rural Wisconsin. When his family moved to Chicago, he had no trouble entering Lane Technical. My dad could run circles around me mathematically, even though he didn't use math in his profession. He remembered a lot of Spanish, even though he only studied it for two years.

Read some of the postings on Yahoo Answers. It's evident that most kids don't have a grasp of proper grammar or spelling. They confuse words like "succeed" and "secede". I see "should of" instead of "should have", or complete lack of knowledge of the past participle: they say "I should have went there", instead of "I should have gone there".

I think we need charter schools, or a return to faith based institutions. I was taught by nuns from grades 1-5. When Sister Regis died, I swear angels must have swept down to lift her up to heaven. Sister Rita..... they probably wouldn't be making a house call. But they were all excellent teachers. Our 1968 school didn't even have money for proper books. Our science texts were so far out of date that a trip to the moon was considered completely unfeasible.

But our teacher said, forget the unimportant details. LEARN THE CONCEPTS.

A Slovakian friend who was invited to the U.S. to teach math to Brooklyn students calls them his "zoo kids". They don't study, pay attention, listen in class, or do homework. Most of them won't even graduate. My Slovak friend openly wonders how he managed to learn all this material in a far more most building, with fewer resources, and other deficiencies you'd expect from the communist era.

We've got to improve education. Otherwise, areas such as computer technology will become an Indian-Pakistani ghetto.

Answer 10

Lack of adequate education. There are a ton of higher education institutions, but if people can't graduate high school, how are they going to get in. I think both parties really really need to think about where we stand in the world in education. Teachers in Japan are among the highest paid and most respected professionals in the country. Americans should take note. I am not a proponent of huge government, but, one thing that should be more subsidized is our schools. When teachers are paying our of their pockets for classroom materials in the wealthiest nation in the world we have a huge problem. The children truly are our future, and we need to take care of them and give them the opportunity to compete with children from places like India and Japan for jobs.

Answer 11

immigration, but that is only one of the issues. It needs to be addressed and fixed or we will continue to have some very serious problems here on our own ground. I also think that the military needs to stay and secure what they've accomplished over in the middle east. To leave now would be a tragedy and an insult to all those who gave their lives for the cause.