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Projecting your own flaws again?
Anyway: Here is what liberals would do if they were anything like me.
First: Get America out of Iraq. That is the biggest drain on America's cashflow, and it is providing no real benefit staying there.
In order to avoid anarchy over there the UN will be contacted and negotiated with.
Second: Full audits by Scottish auditors on all government departements to see just how much fraud and nepotism the Republicans have brought to bear in them. This purge will be needed before anything further can be done, and it will include the Pentagon.
The reason for using Scots is because American auditors do not have as extensive training and are just point blank inferior.
Third: Launch appropriate criminal procedings against the Bush administration based on those audits.
Fourth: Once the cleanup operation is done, raise corporate taxes in order to pay that huge debt. Cut corporate welfare to any company hiring lobbyists and in fact ban it in the case of companies that hire lobbies. If you have the money to hire a lobbyist to push for less regulation in your industry what the fuck are you doing asking for government help for?
Fifth: Bring up fuel standards and environmental standards to being competetitive with the rest of the first world. This is not simply about saving the planet, but also saving American commerce - America has a major disadvantage in its export markets because its goods have a bad reputation for pollution and power consumption.
Sixth: Public healthcare. Health insurance failing to cover Americans who have bought it, is one of the leading causes of bankruptcy in America today. In the case of a bankruptcy everybody loses. Single payer seems to be the best way to go, and I don't have a lot of sympathy for the poor unemployed insurance salesmen here.
Seventh: Subprime (Because it will still be around): Buy the debt, ease the payment options. This is a far greater benefit to those going broke in this market than simply throwing money at the problem in the form of a tax rebate. If we are going to be stuck bailing out America's top incompetents, we will at least do it so that their debtors are at least helped.
Eighth: Bring in international accounting standards and corporate finance laws that are in line with the rest of the world. America has its own accounting standard at the moment, and it is inferior to that of the rest of the world's. It is put up with because America is traditionally the leading nation on finance, but it won't be forever and it is hurting America.
Ninth: Boost maintainance on all infrastructure and upgrade according to global warming analyst predictions. It is probably too late to reverse warming at this point, but preparations must be made to survive should the worst come to worst. This means upgraded levies, and upgraded railways. More in the way of alternate energy sources just in case fuel refineries and oil dericks get hit.
Tenth: Talk to everybody. So long as communications remain severed with America's enemies, those enemies will assume the worst, just as America assumes the worst in similar situations. Further, America is not in a position to dictate, and talking to the world may reveal things previously unknown to the American government. Information is always good.
Eleventh: Once the debt is under control, once America's industry is viable again (In other words not making huge losses every year) and once the rest of the world has regained some degree of trust in America, look at simplifying the tax system so that it doesn't require a specialist degree for most people to understand it. Keep it progressive, but simplify it.
Older generation women declaring younger generation women traitors to their sex for not voting for Hillary?
The long campaign on this site dedicated to "Vote Hillary because you just don't know what having a female president means to us."
The whole long focus on how Barrack Obama is a nasty sexist - sans real examples of course, because he didn't act like a gentleman and hand Hillary the nomination on a silver platter, along with his head.
There was plenty of sexism being talked about when it came to people who didn't support Hillary - Joke T-Shirts from conservative leaning sites were brought up as examples, along with conservative pundits and examples of one respected figure criticising Hillary on grounds other her gender. How about an examination for once of the sexism that came from Hillary's supporters?
Now I know I sound sexist saying all of that, but after nigh on a year of this mastrabutory shit your site calls journalism, it is only natural to start asking about just how one sided that sexism really was.
Clinton was impeached for getting a blowjob.
The charges that could be brought against Bush could range from violations of US constitutional law, unsavoury contracting practices (Alphonso Jackson admitted to what was basically illegal bias in how he awarded contracts) gross negligence and war crimes.
The hurt being done to the Democrats at the moment, as reflected in the polls of how the US regards their Congress and Senate, is being done because the Democrats haven't been militant enough, not because they may impeach one of the least popular presidents in history.