Message #256547

[Reuben]

If you are on any form of govt assistance, no voting rights....get a job, and get your vote back... Term limits, drug tests for everyone that receives a check from the govt. From welfare recipients all the way up to the potus. You fail, no more checks.

That's my platform.
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Circle C

I agree 100%...welfare moms get rewarded for having more children, thus a never ending cycle.

To me the root cause of our problems have to do with greed.

The majority of our politicians serve one term and have one heck of a retirement program. If they had to earn the retirement and not just get it automaticly then this would be a better country.

When major corporations started building plants, factories etc. etc. overseas I saw that as greed for bigger profits but this sold out our country.

The other thing I see is the global competition. How can we compete with third world countries that don't pay their people and don't care about pollution. The company I worked for spent millions if not billions to control pollution. Not only that but a lot of the countries we compete against are right next to the oil and gas producers. The answer to that is for the USA to drill more and slowly phase in a renewable energy source that is feasible and creates jobs.

When we are in a country that has a high standard of living ( AC, 2 or 3 vehicles etc etc)and we compete with a country like China then we are going to have to give up some of these luxuries. I see countries like the US and China like two open top barrels and the US barrel is full of water and the Chinese barrel is empty. The equalizing line is opened and the USA barrel flows into the Chinese barrel. The Chinese are happy and we are PO'ed here in the good ole USA. Our barrel is now half empty and the Chinese barrel is half full...The barrels representing economy/standard of living...

I just hope the Chinese don't get too hungry or greedy....

TO ME THAT IS LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE...and not focusing on a symptom.


He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
Confucius