How would you prioritize this list. PLEASE HELP!?

Question

If you were to prioritize these things, what order would you put them in?

Healthcare, Education, Senior Care, Employment, Homelessness, The hungry, Medical Research-Stem cells, Space Exploration, Corporate Bailouts, War.

Consider a few things:
There are Americans who die every day because they could not afford the proper healthcare
There are Americans who do not get the educational funding necessary for specialty care (such as autism), or even college. Although a lot of help is offered it leaves one in serious debt.
We are about to have a crisis when the baby boomers can’t work anymore. That will affect everyone, the seniors, the families, and all the other tax payers.
The current unemployment records do not keep track of the humans who have expired in the system and still are not employed. The wages that most humans receive forces both adults to work, leaving little time for family influence.

There are an estimated 740,000 homeless Americans every day, not counting the thousands that are in jail for the crime of not having shelter. There are a lot of families and children out there that suffer needlessly.
We send huge amounts of foreign aide overseas, why do we have even 1 hungry person here?


With advancements in stem cell research and nano-mechanisms we are getting closer to cures every day. An increase in funding would increase those advancements exponentially.

NASA reports that it does not have the funding to track near earth objects as they are so numerous. Perhaps the world would think better of us if instead of using our power for war, we used our power to protect the planet. We should find a way to divert and asteroid and incinerate a comet. If we wait until one is on the way it will be too late. We can practice and get it right before it actually happens. The other things is that eventually the human species is going to have to leave this planet to survive, that is an inevitability. Although the likelihood of it affecting any of us directly is nil, we know this will be a problem in the future. Shouldn’t we be laying the groundwork now?

Why do we bailout dying corporations? They are not like an endangered species. Keeping a failing corporation in business in a major industry like airlines or insurance only harms the economy. It keeps new more agile companies from being able to expand into a market to improve the overall general quality. There is a natural evolution to the economy, corporate bailouts is like trying to bring back the Neanderthal.

War. What is it good for? That’s how the song goes. I know this, we had to sell bonds to finance WW2, we spent a 1.5 trillion dollar surplus in under 6 months in the war with Afghanistan. We are currently over committed financially with our military obligations. Humans are dying, and we are irritating everyone. Perhaps we could take a break from war for a few years, fix the small issues we have here, and if we want to return to war later we always can, but we don’t have to.

How would you prioritize that list?

Answer 1

Well, I guess I'd go with:

Entitlement Funding (SS, Medicare, Medicaid)
Education (not a federal government responsibility, tho')
Employment (not a government responsibility, tho')
War
and a few other things.

I don't worry about it too much, though - I pay my taxes, study the issues, vote, and let the rest take care of itself.

Answer 2

#1 Close our boarders.
#2 Do away with all giveaway programs.
#3 No more foriegn aid.
#4 Privateize S.S. 100%
#5 Get rid of the IRS and go to national sales tax.
#6 War funding.
#7 Space exploration.
#8 Education for those whos parents pay taxes.
#9 Senoir care for those who have saved.
#10 Medical research.
#11 Employment
#12 Healthcare for those that work.
#13 The hungry
#14 The homeless.

Answer 3

It is really easier to group them thus:

Economic Issues:
Employment
Corporate Bailouts

Social Issues:
Healthcare
Education
Senior Care
Homelessness
The hungry
Stem Cell research

National Defense Issues
Space Exploration
War

I would place the economic issues first because without a vibrant economy nothing else is going to happen. We need to eliminate the minimum wage to decrease unemployment. Teenage unemployment is higher than it has ever been because most places simply cannot afford to hire people at $7 an hour. If people were able to negotiate their own wages depending on experience then teenagers could negotiate a lower wage while still earning money and gaining experience, either for wage increases at their current employer or to get a higher wage elsewhere. If an employer won't pay enough, he will not have any workers. Simple as that.
One very important issue not on this list is inflation. When you raise the minimum wage, the prices on everything go up because they cost more to make. And also, when you are working on a fiat currency system that backs its currency with the national debt rather than a gold, silver, or platinum reserve, inflation is a serious problem. Did you know that an ounce of silver buys about the same amount of goods now as it did in 1913? There is virtually no inflation with precious-metal backed currency. REAL money.
Along with this goes government intervention. Government price controls on food raises food prices. Government rent control creates below-market price conditions for housing, so no one has any motivation to build new housing. And taxes. It is a well known and documented fact that the average American pays over half their income in taxes of various kinds. If we were not taxed so heavily, if government were smaller, if we were not babysat into funding Social Security and a government school system, if pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and hospitals were not regulated into the ground, here's what it would mean for us:
--we would get to keep more of what we earn
--therefore, we would have choices as to hospitals, schools, and savings options for our retirement
--fewer people would be hungry and homeless because more housing would be built and farmers would quit letting their land lay fallow in exchange for a government subsidy
--government welfare would disappear and private charity would step in. Fraternal, friendly, and mutual aid societies filled this role for six centuries before government and did a very good job. There's no reason on earth they couldn't do it again.

And the last two categories: There would be companies with interests in space exploration, and they would do a superior job to NASA because they would have motivation to do it faster, cheaper, and safer (after all, what space tourist is going to travel with a company that had four ships blow up last year)
And as to war, we would go to war only if attacked directly. None of this preemptive crap.

None of this is overly likely to happen...but I can dream.

Answer 4

Gee, sounds like you've already prioritized your own list.

Now let's look at it from a CONSTITUTIONAL standpoint, and that is the only way this should be viewed.

War: That falls under defense. It is the only one of your choices addressed in the Constitution.

Everything else is not written into the Constitution. You do not have the right to healthcare, or a home, or education, or a job, or a bailout, or space, or certain research. Sorry if this is harsh, but there is a difference between your misguided idealism (which, in reality, is Socialism) and reality. That difference is the law.

I know you and your friends are going to give me a rash of "thumbs down" but, hey, I'm not the one ignoring Constitutional reality. Remember, you have the right to life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness, not happiness.

Answer 5

Please keep in mind that some of your choices can be correlated with each other, but my list In order of importance from highest to lowest would be:

Education,
Employment,
Healthcare,
Homelessness,
The hungry,
Senior Care,
Medical Research-Stem cells,
Space Exploration,
War (Unless Ending the War, then it would be number 2)
Corporate Bailouts

Answer 6

Your list make sense. The only things I would switch are education and health care. Education is vital in training the next generation of health care workers, space scientists, and all other members of the workforce. I would put health care after that to ensure that the newly trained work force and the aging baby boomers stay healthy.

Are you going to run in 2008??? You've got my vote!

Answer 7

Employment is the most important, if you have a good job you have an education or at least a will to succeed, so you can pay for health care and your not a bum. Stem cell research is just another way to keep aborition legal, and the rest I don't care to commment on.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

assuming you mean prioritize for the govt to address:
1. employment
2. war
3. space exploration

Govt should NOT be involved in:
1. healthcare
2. education
3. Senior care
4. homelessness
5. the hungry
6. stem cells
7. corporate bailouts

Answer 10

I would agree with your listing. I don't think I would change a thing. As one who is a senior I would almost swithch senior care with education but as an educator I decided the future is much too important to put it third.