Moonlit_Angel
Blue Crack Addict
Basically the number one issue I have with the GOP is that their overall gameplan is to keep the middle class occupied by convincing it that it is at war with the impoverished lower class, and illegal immigrants. At the same time they continue to push for tax breaks for the upper tax classes who (smartly) take that money and squirrel it away in investments when the stock market has taken a beating.
That and the fact that they've stated their main goal is to make Obama a "one-term president". That doesn't really tell me anything about how they'll solve the problems they feel Obama's helped create.
To democrats: do you all think as anything at all should be done about the skyrocketing debt?
Absolutely. You'll get no argument from me on that.
I would say this to any politician who's bitching about Social Security, calling it a "Ponzi scheme" and such, or complaining about Medicare/Medicaid...if you think it's that horrible, then I sure hope you aren't going to collect your Social Security when the time comes, or lean on the healthcare you're automatically given because you work in the government. Don't take that stuff if you find it so abhorrent and there might actually be something left for the rest of us, especially the younger generations!
Definitely agreed on cutting defense spending. Our focus should be more on improving intelligence gathering and small-scale military operations should we need them, and less on big, dramatic, overblown military setups. I keep hearing about all these fancy new weapons, these drones and planes and whatnot, and I think it's overall a pretty pointless use of our money.
No argument Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid could use some fixing up, too, but I'm not much of an expert on how to go about doing that, really. Only thing I can think of right now is that there's a hell of a lot of red tape related to Medicare/Medicaid that could be cut down. I understand they're trying to make sure that the people who genuinely need it get it and that we don't have people trying to scam off it or whatever, but seriously, by the time you get through the seemingly endless paperwork, it hasn't really helped you, you know, get better taken care of.