Foreign Policy Shifts?

[Brett327]

2. Figuring out what cultural and educational influences created a leader like Elon Musk.

Presumably so we can prevent someone like him from ever happening again. Amen, brother!

 

[Faded Float Coat]

I agree, 100%.

Maybe we could start here:

1. A public education system that actually focuses on reading, writing, and STEM subjects, not padding the retirement portfolios of people like Randy Weingarden.

2. Figuring out what cultural and educational influences created a leader like Elon Musk.

3. Term limits for all members of the House and Senate.

4. A complete and total focus on the nuclear family.

5. Reminding people, every, single, day about the horrors of communism, facism, and socialism.

6. Mandating 2 years of community service for every citizen between the ages of 18 and 25. Military, EMS, Public Health, LE, Public Education.

7. Providing special tax incentives for people that choose to follow a career in #6 above.

8. Allow people to live, tax free in their homes once their mortgage is paid off.

9. Stop borrowing against the the SS trust fund. Maybe provide an alternative to families that have the means to fund their own retirement.

10. Make the tax code clean and easy to comprehend.

1. Yes
2. Worth studying, if for no other reason than to capture the ingenuity while avoiding the lunacy
3. Or, a serious and universally applied standard of ethics
4. Sorry for the widow(er), or the woman whose deadbeat dude left her with his kid. Can I suppose you're opposed to no-fault divorce?
5. Okay
6. If you include the forest service, national parks service, peace corps, american red cross, boys and girls clubs, etc.
7. Something that looks like a GI Bill, but with limits (post 9/11 GI Bill, specifically the transferability is very generous).*
8. Sign a waiver opting out of fire, police, and EMS service....
9. You've got both chambers of Congress and the White House - that legislation should be coming along any day now, right?
10. Yes

 

[robav8r]

1. Yes
2. Worth studying, if for no other reason than to capture the ingenuity while avoiding the lunacy
3. Or, a serious and universally applied standard of ethics
4. Sorry for the widow(er), or the woman whose deadbeat dude left her with his kid. Can I suppose you're opposed to no-fault divorce?
5. Okay
6. If you include the forest service, national parks service, peace corps, american red cross, boys and girls clubs, etc.
7. Something that looks like a GI Bill, but with limits (post 9/11 GI Bill, specifically the transferability is very generous).*
8. Sign a waiver opting out of fire, police, and EMS service....
9. You've got both chambers of Congress and the White House - that legislation should be coming along any day now, right?
10. Yes

At least, in some respect, you’re being somewhat intellectually honest. Thank you

 

[Spekkio]

At least, in some respect, you’re being somewhat intellectually honest. Thank you

I was being intellectually honest.

There is no means for an English mechanic to immigrate to the U.S. other than waiting for the lottery - which is normally a 1-2 year wait to find out if you were accepted and another 1-2 years to get your resident visa - or breaking the law.

The lottery was canceled this year because we couldn't figure out how to charge the $1 fee.

We exploit educated / skilled immigrants when it's convenient. And everyone else comes here illegaly... which we also exploit. I love me some strawberries.

 

[Brett327]

8. Sign a waiver opting out of fire, police, and EMS service....

Also...

Schools
Roads, traffic lights, streetlights
Public parks and recreation
Municipal drinking water
Sewer and wastewater treatment
County jails and state prisons

Nobody is giving up all that. It's a monumentally stupid idea promoted by the "fuck you, I got mine" Boomer and Gen-X crowd that don't understand how anything works.