(December 24, 2012 at 10:00 am)TaraJo Wrote: I really hate hearing everyone say "Both parties are the same!" It's a sign of blatent stupidity. I mean, just look at the platforms of both parties, presented side by side, and you'll see what I mean. Fact is, I have a lot to gain if employment or housing discrimination against GLBT people is passed. The Republicans ain't gonna do that for me. I have a lot to gain if Pell Grants continue and the Republicans want to do away with that. I get health care from a center that's partially funded by grants which, again, the Republican party puts at risk. And those are just a few of the issues I can think of now. Part of the reason I vote Democrat is because, given their track record, I'm confident that their position on future issues will be more in line with my beliefs.Tara, while I really don't have a deep enough understanding of the USA's political policies to give an in-depth understanding and critique of their individual policies, I can still point out the huge glaring obvious problems that the whole world - except the USA - sees.
You get health care funded by grants. As much as I firmly believe in universal healthcare, the USA cannot afford the spending that the Democrats want, and it can not afford the tax cuts that the Republicans want. Your economy is more insolvent than Greece, and yet the USA government fails to recognize this. The whole world laughed as one clear loud voice at Obama when he declared that the USA is a triple A economy and will always be a triple A economy!
Furthermore there is nothing more immoral than squandering your children's and your children's children's money today. And claiming status-quo because that's what your parents and their parents and their parents did doesn't change this fact.
The USA is heading straight towards becoming a 3rd world economy. Instead of making sacrifices in the present, and in the past, you've chosen to sacrifice your children's future. You think 20.5 trillion dollars in public debt got there from tax-cuts alone? It got there because the yanks keep wanting to spend more money and have more tax cuts. The only way to level your budget and repay your debt is by: 1. increasing taxes substantially, 2. cut spending substantially.
Your system of democracy is substantially flawed. You have a 2-party system, where each party needs only attract their own supporters to get elected. If you had mandatory voting, then you wouldn't need to put on such a song and dance to get people to the polls and you could focus more on persuading people on your policies by their merit.
It's all very well to enjoy the grants you get from the government - but those grants are unaffordable and throwing away your future!
So FYI I don't see the parties as "the same", no logically thinking sane politically-minded person could do that, but I see them as both equally contributing the "same" problem in the USA.
