User Panel
Posted: 1/27/2012 9:29:39 PM EDT
I'm curious what the hive mind thinks are the most important issues facing the United States. More specifically, list your top 5 concerns, starting with your greatest concern. (Not including the upcoming presidential election.)
Examples: Deficit Economy Jobs Illegal aliens Defense Healthcare Supreme court Inflation Fuel prices Food prices Etc... Thanks. |
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Spending Republican Voters Democratic Voters Libertarian Voters Other Voters |
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1. Exporting jobs
2. Illegal aliens 3. Dependance on foreign oil 4. Movement towards socialism 5. Rampant bank/stock fraud/mismanagement |
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Failure to have an opposition party. The GOP is NOT one.
SCOTUS going full retard for decades. The fact it's going to get worse before it gets better. |
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1) National debt
2) Government intrusions into private lives 3) Government intrusions into the economy 4) Over-regulation 5) Illegal immigration You might see a pattern with 1-4. |
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1. Progressives
2.George Soros 3.Corruption 4 .United Nations 5. Islamistism |
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1. current Pres. is not a Patriot
2. most voters 3. alphabet agencies covers a lot of it |
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the national debt
republicans not having a solid candidate for this election democrats gas prices going fucking insane immigration |
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9 or 45
Chili with or without beans Eject or not Glock or 1911 Poop threads |
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The biggest problem I see with America is that enough people thought obama was the answer to the problem.
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I am mostly concerned with the poor quality of screenplays in the pornography productions.
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Quoted: Underground city at the Denver airport Don't forget chem trails and the UN Zombies! |
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Underground city at the Denver airport Don't forget chem trails and the UN Zombies! They intercepted the UN Cocaine, so the UN Zombies are going to be slow for a while |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Underground city at the Denver airport Don't forget chem trails and the UN Zombies! They intercepted the UN Cocaine, so the UN Zombies are going to be slow for a while Yeah, I guess, but what if the CIA gives Bigfoot LSD and AIDS? |
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Direct election of senators
Federal income tax Militarization of the constabulary Relaxation of Posse Comitatus Prohibition of drugs |
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Underground city at the Denver airport Don't forget chem trails and the UN Zombies! They intercepted the UN Cocaine, so the UN Zombies are going to be slow for a while Yeah, I guess, but what if the CIA gives Bigfoot LSD and AIDS? The Furry Colors |
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1. The fact that nearly a decade into it, almost nobody in government or the msm has addressed the zero-boundary crisis in a meaningful way, not just failing to fix the problem, but failing to identify it, or willfully misleading the public as to its nature.
2. The blatant pervasive institutional corruption in government, in both parties. 3. The propaganda machines that pass for news outlets.. 4. The overwhelming majority of people who buy the propaganda rationalizing the corruption. 5. The geopolitical ramifications of American Dispensationalism. Off the top of my head, I could go on quite a while. |
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1. Evil blue M&Ms 2. My eventual overthrow of the government of Costa Rica 3. Numbered lists d. Third nipples e. Spiders |
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Quoted: I am going to buy Nicaragua after I become super rich, we'll be neighbors.1. Evil blue M&Ms 2. My eventual overthrow of the government of Costa Rica 3. Numbered lists d. Third nipples e. Spiders |
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The number one concern is that we got a Marxist Administration in the White House.
The first order of business is that we get that communist trash out of the White House. Everything else is secondary. |
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I am going to buy Nicaragua after I become super rich, we'll be neighbors.
1. Evil blue M&Ms 2. My eventual overthrow of the government of Costa Rica 3. Numbered lists d. Third nipples e. Spiders Cool. We can go halvsies on Honduras. |
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1) Spending (I prefer this term over just a "deficit")
2) Demographic shifts That's about it. |
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Lack of Nationalism and pride.
Importation of foreign values that replace 'American' values. I don't want to live in the country that the imports fled. Increasing National debt. Increasing self inflicted stupidity of the population. The loss of true conservatism with increasing anarchy. *The loss of regional accents and dialects as people move around and/or watch homogenized media with New York or California accents. |
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1. Spending
2. Spending 3. National security 4. civil liberties 5. Spending |
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Barack Obama
Mitt Romney public debt nanny state generation ivory tower congress |
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1. Spending
2. Debt 3. Entitlement programs (all of them) 4. American freeloaders (see OWS) 5. Democrats (see 4) |
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National Debt
Excessive Spending Illegal Immigration Intrusive Big Government Welfare Society
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Out of Control Spending. - High Entitlment Spending such as food stamps, unemployment, government assistance programs
Obtrusive Government. Nanny State - Turning into the STASI Police State High Taxes Health Care - Get the fucking lawyers out and most problems go away. Can you say tort reform. Education - We spend more on sports than education. Pretty fucked up. Need more kids embracing the sciences |
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The Alinskying of America. The loudest and most irrational voices get airtime, while reasonable people get drowned out.
Idiocracy. As a result of the above, no normal person wants to subject themselves and their families to the ridiculous political attacks. We're now being led by the dumbest, because the smartest stay out of the fray. Most people here have a list of problems that have a solution that needs to be chosen. The real problems are those which don't have a solution. |
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1. 10% of my fellow Americans
2. 10% of my fellow Americans 3. 10% of my fellow Americans 4. 10% of my fellow Americans 5. 10% of my fellow Americans That should just about cover it.
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1. Entitlement mentality / culture
2. Work ethic 3. Morality 4. Lack of ability to perform basic math functions 5. Lack of desire to be bound by those same basic math functions. |
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1. Taxes - much more on the way.
2. Regulations - it's killing the free market. 3. The Constitution - continues to be trampled on. 4. Eminent Domain - we'll see more of it. 5. Progressivism - It's Rebirth and continues to grow unabated. |
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Freeloading non-productive ass holes. Fix that one and we would not have any problems.
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1. Deficit and out of control spending. 2. Defense and security of our borders. 3. Jobs / Illegal aliens I tied these two together because they go hand in hand. The more illegal aliens working equates to fewer jobs. I do not want to hear about them doing jobs Americans don’t want to do. If you as an American and are hungry you will work at anything to keep your family fed or you deserve to starve. I know people need a helping hand from time to time and that is what welfare is for but it is not and was never meant to be a life support system. 4a. Energy recourses and the ability to produce and purchase it at a fair price without depending on supplies from the Middle East. Should some company come up with an alternate that works let the free market decide what replaces fossil fuels the government should have zero involvement. This philosophy frees up more tax dollars and creates less red tape for the company that wants to think outside the box. 4b. Food prices coming from a farmer’s perspective I look at this major topic from a different point of view. The farmer deserves a fair price for what they produce the government needs less involvement in how the average farmer does there job. The key to keeping food price in check is maintaining low energy cost. It takes a lot of fuel to produce the produce we consume. 5. Inflation this one ties back to number one however no matter what we do it is going to take a while to get our Deficit in check in order to eliminate Inflation. Rick Perry said it best; no country gets any US money. Of course I am always open to helping out Israel but I can think of no one else who needs or deserves a helping hand until we get our financial house in order. |
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Out of control government - both spending and their power
Illegal Immigration - neither side wants to do jack shit about it Decline of America - educationally and morally. |
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Higher possibility of unemployment.
The US not taking successful steps to recover gracefully from our deficit issues, or foreign entities deliberately taking actions to drive our economy into a destroyed state. Inflation eating away current savings. Weakened US Military. |
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Communists, Communists, Communists, Communists. & Communists.
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Ignorance Ignorance Ignorance Ignorance Ignorance Fix that, and all the big problems solve themselves. |
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Kooks
Losers Idiots Jobs Our ongoing refusal to fully adopt and embrace the Metric System. |
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Whit out looking at other posts;
1. Government spending/deficit, 2. Government collusion with industry/politicians using there influence and knowledge to enrich themselves and get money for re-election (some places that's called stealing), 3. Energy and foreign relations (Asia, Middle East, Europe fuck Iceland ), 4. the economy stupid (see 1,2&3) and 5. Presidents and there stupid pet projects like Obummer and green energy or Mittens and his space fantasy, 6. All governments from the Feds to local are wasteful and glutted to some extent; throw in those generous pension plans and it's a real mess, something needs to be done. 7. No accountability in Government, too many instances of looking the other way (See 2). |
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