Message, Solutions, Cynicism
Nov. 6th, 2011 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nebris...first, some accurate propaganda..
..now some solutions..
Simple Solutions To The Budget Crisis:
End two wars of occupation. Leave the Middle East and Central Asia.
Stop fighting the Cold War. Leave Europe.
Start closing down America's world wide 'empire of bases'.
Stop funding the military power of other nations.
End all military contracts, and return all of those duties to the military itself.
Close Guantanamo and return Cuba's sovereign territory.
Abrogate NAFTA completely. [I'd also say withdraw from the IMF and WTO, but we own the damned things!]
Stop subsidizing the already highly profitable oil industry.
Stop subsidizing the highly unprofitable corn industry.
Nationalize the private prison industry.
Release all minor, non-violent drug offenders and stop paying a fortune to incarcerate them.
End the War on Drugs, dismantle the DEA, legalize all drugs, then regulate and tax them.
Establish a State Bank for each of the fifty states and have each state treasury deposit ALL state revenues, pension funds, etc 'exclusively' in their own State Bank.
Forgive ALL outstanding student loans across the board and without condition.
Establish a national Single Payer 'buy in' program for Medicare with no age restrictions.
Extend a fully funded Medicaid to everyone below the poverty line.
Rebuild all of America's infrastructure from the ground up.
Rebuild American industry here in America itself, by government fiat if necessary.
...and the biggest one, return to the sensible Eisenhower era taxation rate.
..and finally some cynicism..
"Back then [the Sixties] everything seemed to be coming apart. Viet Nam. Urban riots every summer. The Manson Family. So many were certain the Revolution was almost here. But what we got instead was Richard Nixon and Disco. And I have to say that in retrospect, they both look pretty damned good at this point." ~Michael Varian Daly
..now some solutions..
Simple Solutions To The Budget Crisis:
End two wars of occupation. Leave the Middle East and Central Asia.
Stop fighting the Cold War. Leave Europe.
Start closing down America's world wide 'empire of bases'.
Stop funding the military power of other nations.
End all military contracts, and return all of those duties to the military itself.
Close Guantanamo and return Cuba's sovereign territory.
Abrogate NAFTA completely. [I'd also say withdraw from the IMF and WTO, but we own the damned things!]
Stop subsidizing the already highly profitable oil industry.
Stop subsidizing the highly unprofitable corn industry.
Nationalize the private prison industry.
Release all minor, non-violent drug offenders and stop paying a fortune to incarcerate them.
End the War on Drugs, dismantle the DEA, legalize all drugs, then regulate and tax them.
Establish a State Bank for each of the fifty states and have each state treasury deposit ALL state revenues, pension funds, etc 'exclusively' in their own State Bank.
Forgive ALL outstanding student loans across the board and without condition.
Establish a national Single Payer 'buy in' program for Medicare with no age restrictions.
Extend a fully funded Medicaid to everyone below the poverty line.
Rebuild all of America's infrastructure from the ground up.
Rebuild American industry here in America itself, by government fiat if necessary.
...and the biggest one, return to the sensible Eisenhower era taxation rate.
..and finally some cynicism..
"Back then [the Sixties] everything seemed to be coming apart. Viet Nam. Urban riots every summer. The Manson Family. So many were certain the Revolution was almost here. But what we got instead was Richard Nixon and Disco. And I have to say that in retrospect, they both look pretty damned good at this point." ~Michael Varian Daly
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Date: 2011-11-07 08:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-07 08:35 am (UTC)~M~
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Date: 2011-11-07 08:58 am (UTC)As for "accurate propaganda," that's usually an oxymoron, but not in this case.