Monday, December 8, 2008

Introduction

Hello,

My name is Steven, and as you guys might already
know is that I’m an amateur political analyst. I'm a center-right college
student and I’m hoping to update this once a week (not sure about if I’ll
always be able to)



In this intro I’ll be simply listing my ideas on how the federal government
should handle certain issues:



Abortion: libertarian on federal level, it's a moral issue, and those are
decided by the state, I personally am not against abortions prior to the third
trimester, but after that it should be illegal since the SCIENCE says that the child is living at that point



Economy - to stimulate the economy we should cut taxes to encourage long term
growth, which is always necessary for an economy like ours, bailouts are
temporary solutions that should only be done if you want to create deficit. and right now our



Welfare State: it is a waste of money, unlike the 1930s (when people needed it)
the Social Security program is outdated and bankrupt. So are Medicare and
Medicaid.



Civil Rights: gay marriage; 'marriage' should only be for a man/woman couple,
not a homosexual couple. Tradition defines the word marriage as a union of a
man and a woman. in what way would a civil union be any different? however,
this is a state issue, not a federal one, let the states decide



Education - we need to re-do our public school system, right now many children
of ours are failing high school, which I find unchallenging already, if we
can't even get kids to focus on school there must be something wrong with how
they are learning, loosing interest in your future is not an option!



Energy - we do need to invest in so called 'green energy' especially ones like
tidal and others, as well as invest in different modes of transportation, Japan
has a massive train system and excellent infrastructure so for our cities and
between them we should invest in high-speed, efficient public transport
systems, doing this would also keep us from becoming dark once oil runs out



Environment - not only should we invest into 'green energy' (if it is green),
we should focus on a program that gives money to companies who wish to clean
the air with ultra-efficient carbon scrubbers and work on a way to remove the
excess carbon dioxide.



Fiscal - (deficit) - we need to reduce our deficit as much as we can, our debt
clock has run out of numbers and we NEED to get it under control, we spent too
much on a war during the bush years, made an unnecessary war last too long (it
would have been fine if we could have just gone in, cut off the head, then pull
out... even better if we just assassinated them and blamed it on Iran) and now
our children (and myself) is going to pay in about 20-40 years, we need to
balance our budget



Foreign Policy - we need to improve our relations with European nations and
china and other first-world nations, these nations are part of the life-blood
of our nation and all of our economies are important



Homeland Security- though we are quite secure now, we need to increase security
now! we need to constantly change our security network and our ways of
security. Of course, we need to also be efficient as well, accelerating the integration
technology into our forces to effectively work with the least amount of time
wasted



this
is all that I can think of for now, I’ll edit this later Next up:
Obama's Transition Team (research will have to be done, please bear
with me)
Or perhaps it's going to be Universal health care, expect one or both.

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