Raise the debt ceiling? Duh... we have to pay bills we've already piled up.
Balanced budget amendment? Yes. Eventually we have to balance the budget again. Unless we want to continue to prop up a false prosperity while we're actually circling the toilet bowl.
Raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires? Yes. You fish where the fish are.
Cut the deficit? Don't just diet or exercise. Diet AND exercise. But don't starve yourself or think you have to lose all the weight overnight.
Means testing for Social Security and Medicare? Of course. Millionaires don't need a Social Security check or extra health insurance. But wait, you say -- they paid in. Yes, and in return they got to live in a country where they could become millionaires.
Raise the age to receive Social Security? Yes. People live longer than they did in the 1930s.
Wage wars without raising taxes to pay for them? No.
Wage wars at all? None since WWII.
Military spending? Bloated and wasteful. You could feed a lot of poor people with the money it takes to keep an aircraft carrier afloat. Defense is not the same thing as "World Police".
Military men and women? People who wanted a job. My issue is with the policy makers who put these people's lives on the line.
Corporate subsidies? No.
Farm subsidies? No, except when food prices threaten to get overheated.
Obama stimulus package to avoid Great Depression 2? Yes.
Did the stimulus package work? I think it would have been much, much worse without it.
Bailout of Wall Street? No.
Awareness that the consequences of not bailing out the banks would have been truly devastating to the US economic house of cards? Yes.
Wait a minute, now... Yes, stimulate the economy when necessary. Yes, let businesses that fail, FAIL.
Obama? Another corporate lackey.
Republicans? Mostly evil as shit. They make Obama look like Jesus.
Democrats? The gang that couldn't shoot straight. Constantly finding new ways to skitter in embarrassing circles. But some of their hearts seem to be in the right place.
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Business? Exists to take your money.
Working people? Who government should be serving.
Public sector workers? Not the enemy.
Corporations? The enemy.
Government? The only Kryptonite we have against corporate power. Unfortunately, the corporations own the Kryptonite mining operations.
Obamacare? A start.
National health care for everyone? Big YES. Are we civilized or are we fucking barbarians?
If you disagree with me, it probably means that I'm wrong, you're right, and that my opinion doesn't matter anyway. But just remember -- I vote. And my vote cancels out your vote. Just a little something to suck on.
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you know, i think i like republicans a lot better now that i know they are sharks with laser beams ^_^
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