Democrats and Republicans--what is our country's biggest problem?

Question

Democrats and Republicans--what is our country's biggest problem?

What do the Republicans seem to think the biggest problem facing the country (america) is? How will they fix it?


What do the Democrats seem to think the biggest problem facing the country is? How will they fix it?

Answer 1

Right now the Republicans see the biggest problem as how to prevent the next terrorist attack. The're trying to pass laws so they can listen in on their phone calls while they're planning to nuke a football stadium.
The biggest problem the Democrats face is how to skim more money from my paycheck. After all, I'm just going to spend it on luxuries like food and gas, and clothes. And maybe splurge on a pizza and a six-pack. I'm soooo ashamed. I really am...

Answer 2

Democrats think the biggest problem facing the country are Republicans, hopefully they will fix it at the polls.

Answer 3

As a Libertarian, the biggest problem with the country is the amazing lack of personal responsibility in our society, coupled with the insane need that our officials seem to have to stick their noses in other people's business and control people's lives somehow...

Answer 4

Really I believe this is a simple one, corrupt career politicians in congress.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It sounds trite but it is exact and fact. These people are treated like royalty, they truly believe they are above the law and consistently break it. In a typical society immoral people represent just under 5% of the population, in the population of congress it is more along the lines of 80% immoral.

The real problem in America is stupidity, special interest and/or laziness of the voter. How does a person who takes bribes on video, laughs about the ineptness of the FBI and puts $100K in a freezer get elected 8 times? And then the Senate leaders yell and scream about separation of powers. Yes they are right, it is about their power and even if it is against the law, you will not thwart their power.

You have career politicians running the government, not citizen legislators. Many accuse the career corporate CEO of only working for themselves, not the stockholders. Career politicians are NO different and they seem to think they are above the law and expect preferential treatment. If the only issue to remaining in power is to obtain cash, buy some votes with special interests and have the media spotlight, then the incumbent has it easy, all at your expense.

In the Senate there are:
44 Dems averaging 20.8 years in Congress
55 Reps averaging 16.1 years in Congress

these numbers begin to make it look like career politicians are in control, who have lost touch with you the citizen and are more entrenched in their own careers.

For the Senate, if you were to use two terms or 12 years in Congress as a term limit
25 Dems would need to leave and 25 Reps would need to leave.
Those Dems are averaging 27.1 years in Congress
Those Reps averaging 24.0 years.

80% of Dems in the Senate have been there more than 12 years
58% of Repubs have.

46% of Dems in the House have been there more than 12 years
32% of Repubs have.

Ben Franklin said of congress, "They are of the People, and return again to mix with the People, having no more durable preeminence than the different Grains of Sand in an Hourglass. Such an Assembly cannot easily become dangerous to Liberty. They are the Servants of the People, sent together to do the People's Business, and promote the public Welfare; their Powers must be sufficient, or their Duties cannot be performed. They have no profitable Appointments, but a mere Payment of daily Wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their Expences; so that, having no Chance for great Places, and enormous Salaries or Pensions, as in some Countries, there is no triguing or bribing for Elections"

If you like the current political system continue voting along partisan lines. If however you are tired of the corrupt ways of elections and would like to see Franklins words be true again, vote for change.

Our country is being run by career politicians who for the most part appear to have lost touch with what you want, and are focused on what they want.

You can change this NOW.
1. Quit your partisan sniping, it is childish and only serves to remove the focus from the real problem in America.
2. Enlist your friends and family in the fight and ask them, if they agree about Congress to do the same.
3. Vote against the person who has 12 or more combined years in Congress
4. This will require in many instances you having to vote for someone outside of your normal party, but you are a patriot and you can do what is right.

Show congress in this next election that we the people are running things in this country, not career politicians. And we are going to do what is right.

I will end now with a favorite quote of mine.

“If a legislator is "safe" from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.” -Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Decisions for a Decade

People in America worry too much about the president, where the greatest potential for evil in the world lies in congress.

Answer 5

As a Republican, I think crime is this country's biggest problem.

Answer 6

the worst threats to this country are, illegal immigrants, and the nations willingness to surender there rights to big brother, no I am not going to say bush is a fciast. what Im talking about is big brother, big brother, make them stop smoking. or big brother big brother give me money, and call it social service.

Answer 7

Dipshits.

Answer 8

The biggest problem is non voters!!!If you dont vote dont *****!!!what we see is a large segment of voters turned off from politics! we get what we vote???if you dont like either vote independent but please!!! VOTE!

Answer 9

democrats,they wont fix anything