Skullbat01

well august second is getting closer my friends

frankly to address alot of issues

1. america may have alot of outspoken political bullshit but go to any European country's system as a point of reference and you'll realize 2 parties is better then 11 (my god!!!! try to get something done there)

2. In recent years we saw G.w gain massive amounts of power for the executive branch unfortunately it had little social power and was mostly militaristic
( something best left to congress 100s > 1 as far as preventing dictatorships)

its a not horrible set up we have its just that the world is changing at a faster pace and it needs to be restructured
( term limits greater then 4 years for the presidency would allow us to avoid the president doing anything more then making pandering speeches like Obama is being constantly relegated to) and term limits for senators would finally stop alot of corruption unfortunately its these same politicians that make that reform impossible


3. I am all for military cuts most of that money goes to the private sector and this raises two issues no one wants to tackle

the last major u.s manufacturing industry is munitions and weapons defense (our tanks our jeeps and of course our bombs) they make money hand over fist but I guarantee if you cut their profits its the POOR factory workers that get screwed

worse then that if you cut the funding people will get in some uproar about how your betraying our soldiers even though the MID is private sector and is actually removing the government jobs that where carried out by enlisted men and woman ( in other words defending the beast that killed 'em)


there is alot more that I could go into but I'm gonna sum it up like this:

while we can all get mad and curse and nitpick the rest of the world does not have it much better its rife with it's own set of issues that can't seem to ever get solved (universal health care being impossible to fund without pissing people of over taxes etc)
whether you want to admit it being an American is a pretty sweet deal,

now as far as economics goes Canada you got no reason to blame the U.S we are NOT entering an age of global economy any idiot who opens up a history book can tell you that since the age of explorations ( and arguably before that) there has been a world economy ALREADY IN PLACE where humanity became interdependent its just that now you can't stick your head in the sand ( a huge flaw with the U.S I admit to that) things will get better this depression won't last forever but it will happen over and over again until humans ( on a personal NOT political basis) change their outlook on the world

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