To all Liberals?

Question

What policies could "our" government put in place that would make you happy?

And by "our" I dont mean Bush, I mean our government in general, and having Bush out of office does not count since he is almost done and you wont have to deal with him any more.

I was just asking, I am not trying to be argumentative by this question. I want to really see where other people stand, since i seem to have it wrong.

Thanks Carrie, but you obviously have no idea who I am.

Answer 1

1. Remove complete necessity of production to other countries ability. Force all companies and homes to invest in the spray-on-solar-cells created years ago so their companies can help the power grids. Force all manufactures to change to electric or biodiesel vehicles in 10 years time, or whatever it may take.

1. Remove the "drug schedule" created by Nixon, and allow any private company to research drugs on their own manner; as long as over 50% of the companies come up with any use for the drug - recreational or health - they could distribute it.

1. Come up with a damn way to agree on the whole Abortion thing. Get 500 extremists from each side and put them in a stadium with swords. I don't know, just figure something out, and stop leaving so much gray area. Split it down the middle.

1. Redo the entire tax system - making everyone equally responsible for either a certain percent or a certain amount of either income, or if wealth is greater, same percentage in wealth. Redo the entire tax break system to be clear and concise to everyone. Severely limit the capabilities of oversea corporations that attempt to reduce costs by increasing the economy of other countries - while reducing ours.

1. Redo the entire voting system for cabinets, judges, senators, etc: every day people could theoretically turn on CSPAN, and get on their computers, and vote on "yes I agree with my rep" or "no my rep should be fired" for whatever their representatives are discussing and voting on. At the end of each year if the rep gets more nos' than yes' he gets re-elected and he can't come back for x amount of years. Do this with every political office. Make it easy. Allow the citizens control, not the corporations.

1. Increase our international relationships by any reasonable costs necessary. Remove ourselves from all wars - on terror, for oil, on drugs, on whatever the hell we have wars on. We want peace. We are NOT the police of the world! Remove war.

1. Remove the ability for companies to bribe politicians. Remove the last 20 things they said about science, and return to working on energy, space, communication, health. Increase science budgeting for the entire nation instead of war.

1. Change the education system. No more "no child left behind." Increase difficulty at an increasing ratio every school year, punish the ones that fail by attending military school for the year - were they will learn discipline and pass. Make it more difficult for each generation to pass grades by challenging the teacher and the students. Increase funding across the board to allow for a difficult to enter but free college, using the money for this instead of war.

ANd I could think of more but meh

Answer 2

Let's start with the government abiding by Constitutional requirements and following enacted laws. Putting anything new in place won't really help if the government isn't willing to even follow the laws that are there.

Assuming they do, campaign finance reform to eliminate huge contributions from lobbyists. Term limits are a good start. Fixing the electoral college so that elector votes are by percentage of votes within each state, rather than all or nothing for each state, which allows for more independent and third-party candidates to have a reasonable shot at getting elected. A rotating authority over Congressional committees, changing annually, so any one party doesn't completely dominate the system just because they happen to be in the current majority.

Those would go a long way towards minimizing the problems caused by the current corruption in the system, regardless of who is in power at the moment.

Answer 3

I'm going to skip the whole foreign policy thing, because although it angers me, changes domestically would make me happiest.

There are many more important causes, but if there were one cause I would (and do) choose to fight for, it is stem cell research. There's so much potential for good, and to have progress stubbornly and irrationally crushed is so sad.

I saw a study done recently where paralyzed rats, given the right dose of chemicals and stem cells, were able to regenerate enough functioning nerves to move their legs. How amazing is that?! Perhaps is seems menial to some, but the hope and potential is there, if only our government would stop repressing it. Luckily, the majority of our country supports stem cell research and after Bush is gone it will be able to proceed. But the years we've lost!

Oh - I'm on a roll now - for Bush to use the State of the Union address to question the ethics of "human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, and creating human-animal hybrids" is absolutely infuriating. Would he not let us clone a human liver for transplants? What about people who use insulin - they are human animal hybrids. Is what they are doing ethically wrong? I wish Bush would just shut up about things he knows nothing about and stop using false hysteria-generating statements to rally people against the wonderful things science can do.

Answer 4

Better education....fix schools...literally they're falling down in many places...if we can deficient spend 300 billion on a war surely theres money to build a place for kids to learn...

If you don't want government running healthcare...fine...but at least regulate the insurance companies....i'm all about the free market place except when you're talking about things like utlities(government regulated) and healthcare.....insurance companies do not care about people they care about profits...

retirement....social security is not broken because it's a bad program...it's broken because dirty politicians have been borrowing money from it for years...put the money back...
social security is just a base anyways...give more tax incentives for companies that match employee donations to 401k and roth IRAs.

War...stop spending money on Iraq...it's not going to get better and i'm sick of hearing about dead soilders....

Answer 5

Let's try dealing with the current social problems within this country and let other countries alone for a while. The US can no longer afford to be the police force for the world. Let's learn to care for one another first, then we can care for other countries.

Answer 6

As we can see not one liberal can make a decision that would make them happy, someone will always be upset. Some are wacked out, and then some are just wack-O. Some put a lot of info that sound good but it is all just another big hypocritical rhetorical answer! Blah blah blah!

Answer 7

I can't speak for all liberals, but health care for everyone at an affordable price would make me thrilled. Why are you so argumentative? This is an open forum, everyone gets an opinion.

Answer 8

But i want bush out so bad!!!!


What would i like to see them do? Have better funded education, create viable non-fossile fuels, pay off the debt, get our troops out of iraq, stay out of my personal business, make pot legal, and listen to people's concerns. Just for starters of course.

Answer 9

One policy would be to take care of our domestic situation. Let's fix our own problems, spend some of our Iraq billions on our schools, give people a decent wage to make a living.

netjr, take off your mask, you repub.

Answer 10

1) Raise taxes...we need more money;

2) Let they gays marry so they can move on to the next issues to make them "equal."

3) Stem Cell Research - publicly funded with the money raised from taxing the rich (you know those with jobs).

4) Open the border - everyone should be allowed in.

5) Get spokespeople of al queda in to discuss how we wronged them and make amends before they blow us up again.

That'll do it.

...oops I forgot sign the Kyoto Treaty so we can return to third world status and save our environment.