08-13-2015, 11:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-13-2015, 11:12 PM by RolloTheGreat.)
(08-13-2015, 07:22 PM)SickBeast Wrote:(08-13-2015, 05:45 PM)RolloTheGreat Wrote:(08-13-2015, 05:36 AM)SickBeast Wrote: So what are the big issues in this election?
1. Repeal Obamacare
2. Bring back American manufacturing
3. National defense
Sounds like a pretty lame election then. I don't see how the Republicans could repeal Obamacare at this point. As for the manufacturing, there isn't a lot that the government can do about this. We just can't compete with the much lower cost of labor in other parts of the world. As for national defense, you guys spend plenty of money on that even after Obama's minor cuts.
There have got to be bigger issues. This election is going to be a sleeper if that's all it's about.
Obamacare can be repealed the same way it was put in place- by the Republicans controlling the House, Senate, and Executive branch of government. They now control the House and Senate, if win the Executive branch it would be easy to end Obamacare.
As SC notes, we used to control the trade deficit with tariffs/lack of trade agreements. It's not as straight forward in these times of stagnant wages and underemployment though. Removing cheap import goods raises prices as domestic wages are much higher. That's why I think we need to route benefits through manufacturers and us the assistance community as dirt cheap labor. The companies pay some small wage on top of the benefits they dispense, the ex-welfare people become low end workers better off than they were financially, but out 40 hours/week of their time.
You don't get terrorism in Canada, you're not enough of a player in global politics to have other countries targeting you for attack. You can trust me when I say defense is a bill we cannot fully pay. Isis just released a 1400 name US citizen "hit list" and basically anyone here is apparently fair game.