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One side wants mass deportation.
The other...
mass amnesty.
I'm for legal imigration. I'll strongly consider who's in alignment with that view.
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I used to think in a much more right leaning way, I even thought Trump would be a better option than Hillary. When Donny first came onto the scene he was a phenomenon and I got pulled in with it. Having spent more time looking a little deeper, I definitely lean more towards the thinking of the left now, or, at least, the ideals of the left. I don't agree with every policy, but I get what they're aiming for. The way I see it now, the Left wants to learn, improve, and move forward. The right prefers to keep the status quo, or go back to "the good old days"
Healthcare for all, as a cancer survivor, my appreciation for Public Healthcare in Canada is unwavering
Equality for all, that includes making up for decades of discrimination that still affect certain groups today
Investment in education and new ideas
Taking care of the finite resources we have on this planet, and developing renewable energy, we're going to need it eventually, might as well get started.
Less billionaires, less poverty, close the gap
Bodily autonomy, keep religion out of it. You don't have to like it, but you have to respect people's freedoms
For the US specifically, some common sense gun laws. If PA wasn't an open carry state, the shooter would have had a much harder time taking a bite out of Trump's ear.
Oh, and keep 2-strokes legal for crying out loud, talk about a drop in the bucket.
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I do not align with either main political party. Each of them has good points but often fouls it all up with some ridiculous stances. I just think we have a pretty good system that doesn't need a lot of correction; just attitude adjustments from time to time. I guess that makes me more conservative. My voting is based on who I think will make the best decisions and further this nation's long-term prosperity. Any changes should be minimal so as to not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
For instance:
I think any country must have a clearly delineated border. Since the main component of even having a border means to separate us from a different country, that separation should be enforced. People should be allowed to travel freely with passports or work visas, but to allow unfettered access across any border and think it is acceptable is asinine. On the other hand, I think America puts up too many restrictions and red tape to becoming a citizen. We should make it cheap and easy to become a citizen if you want to come join the big melting pot; come sign up, pass a few background checks, and get a Social Security number. Making this part easy also makes deportation quite legitimate; if you cannot come here legally, we must therefore assume you are up to no good. You're out. No free handounts, no assistance except back to the borders of the country you came from.
The right to keep and bear arms is paramount to maintaining a free society. When the framers of our constitution put that 2nd amendment into writing, they did it primarily to avoid the kinds of government overreach and tyranny that they had just fought a revolutionary war over. The 2nd is the ultimate check on abuse of power, and every other freedom that you hold dear owes its very existence to the 2nd. I don't even own a gun, but I will support every citizen's right to own, carry, and practice with as few or as many as he/she sees fit, and with however many rounds of ammunition.
This does not mean that gun owners can or should be irresponsible. I think that penalties for crimes using guns should be very punitive and strictly enforced. However, there should be no limit or disqualification to the type, size, or use of a weapon, even weapons of war, to qualified, law-abiding citizens.
Any reference to a God or Gods has no place in our government, period. This is not the United Islamic States of America, the Buddhist States of America, nor even the Jesus Christ's United States of America. It is simply a country on planet Earth called THE United States of America. "In God we trust' is a given, and a sentiment most of us can carry with us into our secular lives, but to imply that our government itself is in any way ordained or sponsored by God is pathetic, misleading, exclusionary and blasphemous. Let's let God inform our secular decisions without forcing any of them upon others.
By the way, I am a Christian.
In short, the government should provide for the general welfare, mint currency, defend the nation and its borders, and do very little else.
Equality for all, that includes making up for decades of discrimination that still affect certain groups today
Do you mean reparations? Who specifically in Canada is discriminated against?
Investment in education and new ideas
In what way do we not invest in education currently? Did you mean free university?
Bodily autonomy, keep religion out of it. You don't have to like it, but you have to respect people's freedoms
Freedom for biological men with penises to be in women's spaces, and or compete in women's sports?
I don't agree with every policy, but I get what they're aiming for. The way I see it now, the Left wants to learn, improve, and move forward
Unfortunately I can't agree with this at all, especially In Canada..... Trudeau is an embarrassment on the world stage, has made life more expensive for all Canadians while spending money around the world that isn't his. Canadians, for what they get are overtaxed, period.
Pretty sure I want to be on the side that doesn't think it has the power to "adjust" the supreme court, just because they struck down a number of their injustices.
Falcon, I believe the first step to fixing the illegal immigration problem would be to pass legislation that if you've ever entered our country illegally you can NEVER have full citizenship voting rights. IF this were passed, they could find fixes to the problem. Until this happens, BOTH sides look at illegal immigration as a plus, cheap labor and possible votes for your candidate down the road. As it is, the illegal immigration already dilutes peoples votes. Because they are counted in the census, a state may get more representation than they are entitled to there by diluting the next states representation who really should have gotten an extra representative. Until we take away the motivation to keep allowing it, it will never get solved. We do need immigration but we should have the right to add to our population with a value to us also, not a liability.
1. Greatest economy in the history of the country.
2. Lowest minority unemployment in the history of the country
3. Energy independence.
And this. Trump should have gotten the Nobel Peace prize, not like Obama that got one for "What he was going to do". What a loser that guy is. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/15/trump-abraham-accords-palestin…
You were just a Leftist but it took you a while to realize it.
No way is health care a right...a right is "god given" and not granted by the government (the government should only prevent those god given rights from being trampled by another) neither do "rights" come from the labor of another. Because healthcare is provided from the labor of another...it can't possibly be considered a right. (If someone wants to argue that healthcare is an ENTITLEMENT they want the government to provide-by taking from another-that's an entirely different discussion altogether...but stop calling it a "right"...I'm talking to you Bernie Sanders...and AOC). The government screws up everything but war...I don't know why anyone would the government controlling health care...heck, Obama tried to fix health care, by passing a health insurance law...seems the government can't even tell the difference between health CARE and health INSURANCE...don't know that I trust them to be in the healthcare business.
We already have "high quality" "free" education in America...K-12. Anything beyond that is on the individual. Whether or not one considers the "free" education in America "high quality" or not is up for debate, and relative to ones perspective...I figure most people assume K-12 government provided education in America is not "high quality" or "high quality" enough...which makes me wonder why anyone would want the government to ruin college education as well? 100-150 years ago everyone getting 12 years of formal education would have seemed to good to be true...now, because we've had it for generations, a high school diploma is basically meaningless (professionally), and because college has gotten so ungodly expensive (thanks to the government getting into the student loan business...and unlimited student loans have allowed colleges to exponentially raise tuition rates) now the current generation doesn't want to pay for their own college education...So, for those who believe k-12 "free" isn't good enough...what is good enough?an associates degree? a bachelors degree? Masters? PhD? Two PhD's? Medical school? Law school? Where do you draw the line? (I draw the line at k-12)...
Some people have a misunderstanding as to what is, and what is not a ‘right’.
Simply put, a right is something that the government cannot interfere with you providing for yourself, by whatever means you choose, provided that you do not engage in force against an unwilling person to do so.
Some people mistakenly believe that a right is something that must be provided for you by the government if you cannot (or choose not) to provide it for yourself.
You have a right to healthcare in that you have the right to negotiate with someone to provide healthcare to you, with you giving them value in exchange for their service.
You do not have a right to healthcare if it requires that the other party provide it against their will.
Not to get off subject but, how would less people with money help homelessness?
Just because a homeless person has money in their pockets, doesn’t mean they’ll automatically get off drugs. They’ll simply buy more drugs while remaining homeless. Wouldn’t better access to rehabilitation programs seem more fitting?
Closing the gap on the haves and, have nots? If a person is self made from their own work, why should a have not be entitled to someone else’s slice of the pie?
I’m really trying to comprehend this as I’ve been taught all my life, hard work will get you ahead. Never get, you and, the next guy ahead.
Agree mostly except that to me, a right is something that cannot be taken away. Which means you have exactly 1 right. That is to think about whatever you want to think about. Other than that, you only have the rights that the biggest fucker in the room allows you to have. And it aint God.
George Carlin had it right.
The PROPER role of government is to prevent that from happening and to protect your rights from being trampelled by the biggest guy in the room. Again, the proper role of government.
I'll answer these from my own perspective.
For some, having money will lead to more drug use, I agree, and yes, more support and help for those people is needed beyond just handing them money. On the other hand, for some, a helping hand financially is all the difference between living on the street and getting back on their feet. Like any issue that has to do with addiction, you have to want to change.
The issue with a lot of the "haves" in both your country and mine is that they get there by exploiting the "have nots". Look at Amazon, one of the biggest, richest corporations with one of the richest owners in the world. Profits through the roof, workers paid and treated like garbage. If you're getting rich off of underpaying and exploiting people who's only other choice is homelessness, you don't deserve the money you're making.
The gap between the "haves" and "have nots" is widening, the middle class is shrinking. How many people do you know who's paycheck barely covers their rent? For many, its not far off of indentured servitude, you're working for room and board and unable to get ahead, or save for a house of your own. People are caught in an endless cycle with no means of moving upward.
I do value hard work, I've worked in construction, roofing, oilfield etc. At my current job, I work 6 days a week and my wife works 5. I do wonder, and I honestly don't know the answer to this: what costs more? Prosecuting and imprisoning people for drug possession/use, or rehabilitating/helping them. We have a large correctional institution here in town, sell a lot of stuff to jail guards, they make a lot of money, a lot of taxpayer money. If more was spent trying to help some of these people, the government may well end up saving money not having to employ as many guards, cooks, janitors etc in as many prisons and jails. I don't pretend to know the answer, but its something I think about.
Wealth isn’t a zero sum game…people aren’t poor because the rich people have all the money…everyone can make as much money as they want with a little luck, strategic networking, sacrifice, risk, and hard work.
With some exceptions, most people live a lifestyle they are comfortable with, and which their individual personality traits, habits and characteristics naturally create for themselves…for some that is millions of dollars, and others it’s poverty….believe it or not, many people wouldn’t like having money, because what it takes to get it, and keep it, would be way be way outside of their comfort zone…and as we’ve seen with lottery winners, many would eventually end up right where they are now financially if given millions of dollars tomorrow. (Many who don’t have money, and don’t know what’s it’s like to have money…won’t like me saying this…but it’s true.)
Printing money and giving it to the rich does make others poorer via inflation.
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Disregarding which party is better will say the party now in charge has done a horrible job and not sure it was by accident. How is the border not a problem for 3+ years, nearing the election it is a problem but Biden has no power to do anything and blames it on the Republicans and lastly magically uses executive power to not do much? One lie after another! They are also willing to pander to anyone while being loyal to no one. Who ever runs for them is only the face of the party, it is the people behind the curtain running the show and they do NOT have the best interest of the country at heart. It's all about greed and power. AOC goes from a barmaid to millionaire in a blink on a salary of 200,000+ a year?
So what's your interpretation of the military industrial complex then?
I'll take a crack at this as well (from my perspective)...
Not to get off subject but, how would less people with money help homelessness?
I don't think it comes down to less people with money would help the homeless in the sense of, "they should have less money", and I see it more of a "there should less people with less money" situation. I know this opens up a whole pandoras box of follow up questions but I like to look at it in a more abstract way. Let's pretend money is sandwiches; I don't think a society can be called "well functioning" when a handful of people have billions of sandwiches locked in their vaults while so many have no sandwiches. It again goes back to the whole "all boats rise with the tide" deal and looking back at points in human history when kings had everything and everyone else had nothing... shit ain't going to last long in that system.
Just because a homeless person has money in their pockets, doesn’t mean they’ll automatically get off drugs. They’ll simply buy more drugs while remaining homeless.
As someone with a lot of experience in the homeless arena, far less people would line their pockets with drugs with extra money than you think. Many, many, many of these people are homeless because life in this country is just too expensive, have medical issues, have mental health issues, can't keep up with rising costs of living, are victims of abuse, etc.
Wouldn’t better access to rehabilitation programs seem more fitting?
Better access to rehabilitation programs would do wonders for humanity.
If a person is self made from their own work, why should a have not be entitled to someone else’s slice of the pie?
I don't see it as "the have nots should be entitled to someone else's slice of the pie", I see it more as, "the have's should pay their fair share". I know a lot of people are going to jump on this one, but knowing quite a few extremely wealthy people, that while they do pay quite a bit back more in terms of quantity of money back into the system, it is more often than not less of their percentage of wealth than those who have less because they can afford to exploit loop holes that keep more cash in their pocket. Again, I don't fault them for this, as I would want to keep as much money as I could as well, but due to the system we have in place nearly all of the super rich get to cherry pick how they give back to society vs doing what is best for society as a whole. IE, "I am super rich and I care about ________, so I donate to ________, which means I get a lower tax rate because of my donation to _______, which helps ______ specific cause instead of helping the maximum number of people as possible".
I’m really trying to comprehend this as I’ve been taught all my life, hard work will get you ahead. Never get, you and, the next guy ahead.
I've never been in the military, but I have two brother-in-laws who are (as well as a grandfather and uncle who were), and I like to think their motto of, "I don't fight on the battlefield for me, I fight for my brothers who are there will me", is a wonderful way to think about our responsibility to our fellow Americans as we're all in this fight together.
Carlin and Hicks for the win.
Your notion that people can make as much money as they want is simply not true. Not everyone can afford college, not everyone can get into the job they want. Not everyone is born on equal footing, the lucky ones will have money passed down from family, while others are born into poverty and never learn how to get out of it.
There's still discrimination and there's still inequality out there. That's the reality of today's world. I wish things were the way you think they are.
I believe the Democrat vs Republican "debate" is just a sham to keep the public divided and against one another rather than united as one. It's the method in which government can control huge populations.
There are some very big issues (war, deficit, disease) that both parties ignore or exploit while obsessing over abortion, gender issues, climate change, etc.
I will acknowledge that some people have a much easier road to wealth/success than others...that's the reality of every aspect of life, some just have an easier path than others...but there is no law, statute, regulation or ordinance that unfairly places a ceiling on one person or group of people...and therefore-as far as the government should be concerned-we all have the same POTENTIAL outcome of hard work, risk, and sacrifice (again, acknowledging that some have a much easier road than others but that is an unavoidable reality that can't be changed, so we just have to accept it)....
I firmly believe that anyone, regardless of circumstance or background, can become wealthy in America...there are countless stories of penniless immigrants coming to America and becoming wealthy (is that easy? No...possible? YES). Never mind the countless self made millionaires...I literally see it every single day (I was at the home of a man just last week, who is worth $10M or so-not generational wealth, and not incredibly wealthy but he never has to worry about money again for the rest of his life-...learning about his background...he grew up in a trailer park, with alcoholic parents and nothing...moved out at 17, and started working at a gas station...and eventually worked his way to the manager...then started his own company...its not easy...but it is very very very possible.)
Most anyone has the POTENTIAL to do similar...most that can, won't...but that's on them, not because the rich people have all the money and not because the government is holding them down.
It is an absolute certainty that the one thing that doesn't prevent someone from becoming wealthy in this country, is the rich people have all the money and there just isn't enough left over for everyone else...that just isn't true, and therefore wealth redistribution isn't the solution.
No, its not that. I had a worldview that was definitely right of center. Wanted lower taxes, less handouts, less government spending etc. Heck for a while I was a big Gavin Mcinnes guy. But through conversations and a willingness to listen to the other side I eventually found myself agreeing more with left leaning politics than right leaning.
So now that we agree that the road is harder for some than others, wouldn't it be a better world if those with a harder road got some help from those who had the easy one.
Yes, there are many self made people who have improved their circumstances, but the reality is that those stories aren't nearly as common as the story of those born into poverty who never find a way out, even if they do try to dig their way out.
What really gets me is that through tax laws and creative accounting, people in the middle class like myself pay taxes at a higher rate than billionaires, sure, what they're doing is legal(mostly) with the laws the way they're written now, but don't you think that should change?
A lot of great dialogue w/o a lot of the usual personal attacks. Nice job, Non-Moto!
What did this guy put up as collateral for the loan to start his own business?
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