Libs and Democrats?

Question

What have you done today to help your country?

What solution have you offered to fix all the problems you feel Bush has caused? I hear a lot of blame and name calling.. But I rarerly hear any kind of logical strategy offered up by anyone on the left.. So will you live by the words that your Great Leader once spoke?

Ask not what your country can do for you! But what you can do for your country!!!

hypo: That's called a cop out!!

Brian: That is called fighting evil with evil, the end result is still being controlled by EVIL... If someone is doing something wrong, you don't fix it by being just as wrong..

Perplexe: If WE relied on the government for everything WE wouldn't be a free country! WE have a duty to make sure our Government is being ran the way WE want it to be. So if WE see something that needs fixed, It's up to US to write our congressmen, Senators and elected officals to fix them. So it doesn't end with the elections. WE also have the responsibility of proposing new laws, regulations and idea's to our elected politicians. So YOU are incorrect......

Stephanie: That is just a way of saying that you don't have ANY answers and you give up... Way to be, at least you fall in line with the rest of your kind.. To think you don't have a loud enough voice to make a difference must be a result of low self esteem!! Anyone has the power to change something if they really want it changed. Only weak minds think they can't.

Ex-Dop: I really don't care what their affiliation is, If you are doing something like that WONDERFUL!!! at least you have an answer and are making a difference... You should feel proud that you could answer my question, and not take the opprotunity to stand up for those who can't. You are an exceptional American.. (Notice I didn't specify your affiliation)

Answer 1

OK you want some solutions.

1. Begin a phased withdrawal of all infantry in Iraq. Start with the men on the ground. First wave would include 30% of all infantry brigades. Second phase should include another 30%. Third phase would include the remainder of them along with a withdrawal of Air Force and Naval personnel. These withdrawals would take place over at least one year's worth of time with the first and second withdrawals not taking more than 8 months. The withdrawal would not include any logistics personnel only field personnel who remain on the front lines. Logistics and intelligence personnel would remain to help stablize the government and train the Iraqi soldiers. However, the government would only pay for the salaries and equipment needed to support US personnel, not security and military forces needed by the Iraqi government.

2. Start a major influx of recruiting intelligence personnel to disperse across the world, primarily Middle-East groups and regimes. The US has lack of intelligence right now and thus has a disadvantage of trying to stop any major attack by a covert group. Most of these terrorist groups organize in the shadows. They are not going to present formal declarations of war because they don't have to, they are not a government. The best thing to do is to get US intelligence into these organizations and find out what is going on before it happens.

3. Repeal all the tax breaks. This country has huge debt that is going to have to be paid back. And with Wolfowitz on the hot seat in the World Bank, we cannot continue to depend on lower than expected interest rates on loans from them. The extra revenue would help to payback the national debt and get America's credit and futures looking better on the global economy. It would also help stop the bleeding that the dollar has been taking for the past 5+ years.

4. Stop the President's fast track policy with regards to trade. The checks and balances system was developed to oversee what each branch of government does. Besides, it has become apparent with all the things that have come out with this administration that maybe it is too overtasked.

5. Stop the "no child left behind" garbage. All it has done is required the schools to teach their children what they need to know to pass a specific test so the school can get its federal funding. Instead, I believe that children should be encouraged to participate in real life exercises that would help them apply what they learn in school instead of regurgitating it back out on to a test.

6. Balance the budget. This country cannot continue to put off our debt for future generations to figure out. If Clinton could do it with a Republican Congress that was in the process of impeaching him, then Bush should be able to do it with this Congress.

7. Start a world wide tour to some of these country's that have begun to alienate America. Taking a hardline stance with a government regime that does not have much support in the world is one thing, but to do it with a country like Russia is just plain stupid. America is not the big kid on the block anymore. Now more country's are taking advantage of the globalized economy to try and take resources and income away from America.

8. Instead of using name calling and finger pointing to get things changed in the U.N., let's try being more tactful. The U.N. is not going to bow down before America and submit to publicly calling them out, even if it is true.

9. Make social security separate form the government budgeters. By that I mean, social security should not be there for politicians to dip in when their budget for another area is low. It should be its own institution that should be overseen by the government. Consequently, Americans should only be able to get from social security what they put in, no more. Socail security should be what it was intended to be, a supplemental retirement program so that people would not be left with nothing when they retired.

10. Strengthen the borders and encourage the boder patrol to enforce the laws that we have. Give ICE the budget and resources we need to begin a process of raids and crackdowns on employers that hire and smuggle illegal aliens into the country and send them back. If anything needs to be fast tracked, it is the process for returning illegals back to their country. Also, if Mexico continues to support the migration of illegals from their countyr to ours, we need to look at ways such as tarrifs to stop that from happening. All money transactions from America to Mexico should be taxed. We shoud also increase the amount of fines levied against businesses and illegals who break the law to help pay for the extra INS and border patrol agents.

I am also not a fan of the WTO, NAFTA, and CAFTA as these agreements do not help the US economy. Instead they serve to bleed America's middle class out of jobs and affordable living. I would suggest to Congress that we go back to the bargaining table with these members and if they are not willing to compromise, then we think about pulling out of them.

Answer 2

First of all, you have to understand that politicians (whether they be Republicans or Democrats) are all on the same side. It Makes absolutely no difference whatsoever, what side they CLAIM to be on, that is all smoke and mirrors. They are NOT on the side of the people in any way shape or form, they are ONLY on the side of the Globalist Elite, and their New World Order agenda! So you cannot blame either the ordinary Libs, or the Ordinary Cons for any of the real problems facing this country, in any other way except for complacency and/or failure to listen and research and find out what these people
(The Elite) are really up to and really capable of! Bush is certainly a player, and he is to blame, but he is not solely to blame. They are all to blame. The only thing ordinary people can possibly do to help this country and this world, is to research the truth, and then spread the word to try and wake up as many people as we can. We Libs, and you Cons, are constantly fighting with each other, when we should be setting our differences aside for the time being, and standing together to defeat our real enemy, the Globalist/Illuminati/Elite, and their NWO agenda! *sm*

Answer 3

Quotes regarding Patriotism
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else"
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

Ben Franklin quote
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert Hutchins - Great Books, 1954

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Edward Abbey, Patriotism quotes:
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Declaration of Independence, Patriotism quotes:
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Patriotism quotes:
Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.

Thomas Jefferson, Patriotism quotes:
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Sidney Hook, Patriotism quotes:
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

Answer 4

Oh well I personally am not an elected official, so nothing I say will change anything one way or another. Nice try at trying to make liberals and Democrats look bad though.

Edit: Get over yourself lemming, whats the Republicans brilliant plan to help the country?

Answer 5

Why? I guess you had a hard day fixing the country's problems.
The problem with your question is that "we" are not suppose to come up with solutions. That's what we elected officials to do. What sense would it be if we had to elected government officials and solve the country's problem as well. What the heck would we need them for, if that was the case.

Answer 6

Those on the Far Left don't know what solutions are. They would have to have Webster's Dictionary in front of them to find out what solution means and it would still be questionable if they could figure it out even then. The lefties on this site will either insult you, spin, dodge the question, or go into a Bush hating rant.

Answer 7

well, I'm applying to a program called Americorps, and they're helping rebuild New Orleans right now.

wanna take a guess what the political affiliation of most of those guys and gals are?

-Question Answered-

Answer 8

Scott Walker is about to WIN in a landslide this coming Tuesday (in the recall election that the Nazis perpetrated) and the Nazi-progressives who attack him are going to learn in a BIG way that the fascism they would push upon us is coming to a dead end.

Answer 9

once he's gone and congress gets more respect we'l be able to do more...

lets start pulling troops out, lets protect our boarders, lets use the money we've been using to kill people to help our impoverished (especialy in LA) citizens, lets make more allies instead of enemies,.....

Answer 10

We can't fix it until Bush gets the hell out of the way and we get a Democrat in the White House!