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Our nation has many problems that need to be addressed; issues that we cannot take affirmative action upon in a divided, partisan society. Issues such as crime, illegal immigration, our huge sum of debt, a health care and welfare system that is a complete mess, and a national identity that has fallen apart. This blogs purpose is to address the issues that we must respond to and how we must respond to them. This blog aims to bring to light our division to make us strive to unite. If one looks at our society today; at the media and our politicians that person can see that our nation is no were near united. A truly united America would allow progress to take place. A truly united America can revive a withering patriotic brotherhood. A truly united America is achievable if we only believe in it.
The people are divided: democrat or republican. People do not simply define themselves as American. National brotherhood has withered due to both liberals and conservatives working against one another. Most voters only vote for representatives in the party of their allegiance rather than actually inspecting the candidates and determining who can best get the job done. When there are shifts in party allegiances, it is almost always in response to an event in recent history. What people fail to recognize is that switching sides because a party made a mistake is not always the correct solution. When a mistake is clearly made, both parties see it for what it is. Most people do not decide their stance on issues by determining what is the best solution, but rather choose to vote against the party that in recent history at fault. As long as our nation is divided into two parties most people will never learn to listen to both sides of an issue. The constant qualm between both parties has made one’s party more defining than ones nation. Patriotism is slowly dying, but we can save her. When someone talks about how great America is and uses our nations grandeur as a defining line for setting great goals, don't label that person a flag waiver! That person is a patriot.
People's diversities only further separate each other in the modern world. Race and religion are both viewed as important aspects to ones allegiances. Whether you're Christian, Jewish, African-American, Hispanic, or whatever- as long as you are an American citizen all that should matter to the public eye is that you are an American. There are so many labels that we have all created to diversify ourselves. What we have failed to acknowledge is that by further unifying ourselves, we can celebrate our diversity: if we all just put our nation before our roots then it shows how our nation is a great melting pot of cultures and how so many different roots and backgrounds come together to make one America- the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth.
Our representative system has fallen to much corruption. It’s a shame when our representatives are not representing, but selling out to corporations. On top of that there is no such thing as an unbiased press. Whether you read FOX, CNN, MSNBC, or whatever it is all biased. So what are we to do? We must stay headstrong. We must not turn our backs to such problems. We must explore options and be open to listening to other sides of a debate. We must be willing to admit to ourselves that we are human, and as such both sides of an argument will make mistakes at times. If we only opened our eyes to the world around us, educated ourselves on current events, and made a joint effort to work together then our world would be a lot less corrupt.
God bless America.
Friday, September 3
A BiPartisan Solution To Government Spending and Taxation
The following is from a blog on CNN:
In behaving as such Obama is a hypocrite. He asks us to put aside partisanship, yet blames Republicans for blocking his package. Republicans do not control Congress. Here are the figures:
Obama, you silly partisan, blaming the Republicans for blocking your package. In this vote the democratic party, not the republican party is divided. And why is that? Because clearly not all of the democrats, and hardly any to zero republicans in congress support loan enhancements. The people have elected their congress, a democratic congress, and the democratic congress has voted in opposition to its Democratic leader. And then Obama tells Republicans to put aside partisanship? Hypocrisy!
If Obama were a real anti-partisan, a President who is willing to put aside his bias to work together he would see that bills such as these are not what most of our nation wants. He would recognize that government spending overall adds to our deficit. Even though he wants to keep spending, members among his own party want him to stop. If Obama were really for bipartisanship, and not just one side, he would see that the majority here is in favor against what he is pushing for. If he were really for bipartisanship he would not be throwing the blame at Republicans, furthering the partisan divide.
A typical liberal would argue that a big part of the reason we have our deficit is because of tax cuts which were a bad idea, while on the other side a typical conservative would argue for tax cuts and against government spending.
In the end of the day, the true anti-partisan approach, a united American approach, would be to meet both ends. Not to completely cut taxes and not to completely cut government spending, yet still to cut both. We can follow both lines that the Democratic and Republican parties preach without radicalizing ourselves to one stance. We can work together to solve our solutions, and then not have to worry about them being backtracked when a new regime comes in four years later with a partisan, one sided, solution.
Government spending in social services should be cut-money spent on social service programs steered into improving our quality of life. Government spending on foreign investments are purging our coffers as well, and should also be redirected.
Too much of our tax money goes into social services such as health care and welfare. If we redirected that tax money towards other programs, social services industries can be privatized. Government should not dabble in social services. Right now health care and welfare is a mess, money going down the drain. Building such programs is a move towards socialistic methods of governing, away from the freedom of industry our founding fathers molded this country into. Away from good old capitalism. Remember- no matter how much intervention the government tries to throw into the mechanisms of the economy in the end it is the private entrepreneur that recovers the economy, not the unmotivated man on welfare.
Too much of our tax money goes to foreign handouts and sending our soldiers to die on foreign soil. That is wasted money. Our tax money should go into domestic problems that aren't social issues, into creating solutions for a better quality of life.
What does that mean, you ask? How does one define a better quality of life?
Quality of life involves many factors: wealth being the obvious one. However the most important aspect of quality of life is security. Reducing crime rates ensures a better quality of life. Working on water and electrical services, as well as fixing and building roads creates a better quality of life. A cleaner environment and cleaner air amounts to a better quality of life. All of these things our government programs do not address to the extent that they should, and they are all things we need to work on.
One could argue that turning away from socialistic methods of governance such as free health care is also a partisan stance, as it involves turning our back to the many people who support socialistic programs. However we must remember that encouraging people to look to the government for welfare checks and giving free health care takes away initiative to participate in the modern world's industrial jungle and earn a living through passionate pursuit of a career. Working hard to achieve success in the market has always been both an American and a Capitalist value, and is in opposition to Socialistic values. That large sum of people, unemployed and on welfare, are not acting like true Americans. America is a capitalist government, and socialistic methods of governance are not what this nation was founded on. Socialists and Capitalists working together will always be partisans. We need to find a partisan solution, a Capitalist partisan solution.
If we redirected the money we spend on social services and foreign handouts into fixing our quality of life we would have extra to make tax cuts. That would be a partisan solution. That would keep government spending, instead of eradicating it, moving it to were it's more needed. To were it won't add heavy loads to our already massive debt and deficit. That would not completely remove taxes, but wouldn't raise them either and would not allow them to remain at their current high levels. That is a bipartisan approach.
God Bless
"Obama said the legislation should be Congress' first order of business when it reconvenes this month. Legislators, he said, need to "put aside partisanship and be the leaders the American people need us to be."He directly accused Republicans of blocking the $55 billion legislation package. Senate Democrats are hoping to OK the package and get it to the president's desk well before November's midterm elections.
Among the provisions in the bill are loan enhancements that would double what small business owners can borrow"
In behaving as such Obama is a hypocrite. He asks us to put aside partisanship, yet blames Republicans for blocking his package. Republicans do not control Congress. Here are the figures:
Party - Senate - House
Democratic - 57 - 255
Republican - 41 - 178
Independents - 2 - vacant
Democratic - 57 - 255
Republican - 41 - 178
Independents - 2 - vacant
Obama, you silly partisan, blaming the Republicans for blocking your package. In this vote the democratic party, not the republican party is divided. And why is that? Because clearly not all of the democrats, and hardly any to zero republicans in congress support loan enhancements. The people have elected their congress, a democratic congress, and the democratic congress has voted in opposition to its Democratic leader. And then Obama tells Republicans to put aside partisanship? Hypocrisy!
If Obama were a real anti-partisan, a President who is willing to put aside his bias to work together he would see that bills such as these are not what most of our nation wants. He would recognize that government spending overall adds to our deficit. Even though he wants to keep spending, members among his own party want him to stop. If Obama were really for bipartisanship, and not just one side, he would see that the majority here is in favor against what he is pushing for. If he were really for bipartisanship he would not be throwing the blame at Republicans, furthering the partisan divide.
A typical liberal would argue that a big part of the reason we have our deficit is because of tax cuts which were a bad idea, while on the other side a typical conservative would argue for tax cuts and against government spending.
In the end of the day, the true anti-partisan approach, a united American approach, would be to meet both ends. Not to completely cut taxes and not to completely cut government spending, yet still to cut both. We can follow both lines that the Democratic and Republican parties preach without radicalizing ourselves to one stance. We can work together to solve our solutions, and then not have to worry about them being backtracked when a new regime comes in four years later with a partisan, one sided, solution.
Government spending in social services should be cut-money spent on social service programs steered into improving our quality of life. Government spending on foreign investments are purging our coffers as well, and should also be redirected.
Too much of our tax money goes into social services such as health care and welfare. If we redirected that tax money towards other programs, social services industries can be privatized. Government should not dabble in social services. Right now health care and welfare is a mess, money going down the drain. Building such programs is a move towards socialistic methods of governing, away from the freedom of industry our founding fathers molded this country into. Away from good old capitalism. Remember- no matter how much intervention the government tries to throw into the mechanisms of the economy in the end it is the private entrepreneur that recovers the economy, not the unmotivated man on welfare.
Too much of our tax money goes to foreign handouts and sending our soldiers to die on foreign soil. That is wasted money. Our tax money should go into domestic problems that aren't social issues, into creating solutions for a better quality of life.
What does that mean, you ask? How does one define a better quality of life?
Quality of life involves many factors: wealth being the obvious one. However the most important aspect of quality of life is security. Reducing crime rates ensures a better quality of life. Working on water and electrical services, as well as fixing and building roads creates a better quality of life. A cleaner environment and cleaner air amounts to a better quality of life. All of these things our government programs do not address to the extent that they should, and they are all things we need to work on.
One could argue that turning away from socialistic methods of governance such as free health care is also a partisan stance, as it involves turning our back to the many people who support socialistic programs. However we must remember that encouraging people to look to the government for welfare checks and giving free health care takes away initiative to participate in the modern world's industrial jungle and earn a living through passionate pursuit of a career. Working hard to achieve success in the market has always been both an American and a Capitalist value, and is in opposition to Socialistic values. That large sum of people, unemployed and on welfare, are not acting like true Americans. America is a capitalist government, and socialistic methods of governance are not what this nation was founded on. Socialists and Capitalists working together will always be partisans. We need to find a partisan solution, a Capitalist partisan solution.
If we redirected the money we spend on social services and foreign handouts into fixing our quality of life we would have extra to make tax cuts. That would be a partisan solution. That would keep government spending, instead of eradicating it, moving it to were it's more needed. To were it won't add heavy loads to our already massive debt and deficit. That would not completely remove taxes, but wouldn't raise them either and would not allow them to remain at their current high levels. That is a bipartisan approach.
God Bless
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