If you believe Rush Limbaugh is a good leader, odds are you think America is going in the toilet.
That is a ton of people, but thankfully not the majority.
Even if Romney won the US would still be alright, just likely regress socially several decades.
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Lets put it this way and take the China approach.
Any company or country that does any kind of businesses with Texas will be banned from doing any type of business in the US.
However unlike China which had zero power after WW2 the US is relatively stronger, how long do you think that the people of Texas would last without any kind of trade going on.
This is hilarious tbh :P. Making a thread about petition with like 20k unhappy people in it.
Such stuff wont happen, peace.
Because it makes education attractive. It helps accustom students to a world in which proficiency with technology is critical. It vastly cheapens the cost of education when you can download e-books rather than having to fork out the money for printed editions.
Teachers very rarely spend money on frivolous shit, especially in as underfunded a system as the US.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
So the total you have there is about 17k signatures out of 350m americans. That's .004% of the population.
Seems like a serious problem, yes.
Let me ask you this, what do you leave to the states to govern?
If you take away education (Which already has standards set), state-level welfare and so forth, what's left for them to govern?
Why should we force them to do things your way? Why should we force them to do things my way?
Do I attempt to say California and New Jersey needs to change their shitty business climate or face a brain drain? Well, I do get to say that about NJ since I'm a resident, but let's pretend I live in PA.
The idea that a nation governing 320 million people knows what's best for everyone within it is absurd. California can't manage that and they don't even have total sovereignty.
It's much better to allow individual states to be mostly autonomous and live within a strict (but small) set of guidelines.
You then have 50 heads with similar problems attacking those problems in ways that suit their needs.
When one finds the best solution, the rest are free to adopt it or ignore it.
You shouldn't be able to force every solution (and the drawbacks it comes with) on a population that doesn't want it.
"Do you think man will ever walk on the sun? -Ali G
Actually, while I lost my job and couldn't find another one for the entirety of Bush's administration, I have had no trouble finding work during the Obama presidency in not just one but two states after moving. I have found easily-affordable housing in an apartment complex in downtown Augusta, GA, something that was impossible when I checked in the last years of Bush's presidency. Obama's presidency has seen equal rights move forward by leaps and bounds even with an unhelpful House run by the extreme right who seek to turn this country into a theocracy, completely ignoring that freedom of religion specifically points out that no legislation shall be made favoring one religion over all others (and yes, trying to turn Christian doctorine into secular law is a betrayal of that Right).
You know what brought the US down so far? GOP filibusters and the Tea Party having explicitly gone into this game intending to stonewall everything Obama wanted to do in the hopes that if the economy was wrecked bad enough, people would blame Obama for it rather than the horrendously-partisan Congress that refuses to compromise across the isle on either side, that was too busy pouring millions into attack ads instead of economic recovery.
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