What is your main issue?

[kahless]

A seek a more voluntary society.

1. Pro-life. Otherwise government completely out of family life thus anything relating to marriage or families eliminated.

2. Complete tranformation of federal and state government to a very a limited form of government that only provides national defense and enforcing environmental laws and monitoring. Everything else abolished. Keeping laws to protect people from violence and bring the criminals to justice. Let local regions decide on anything further. Make any kind of forced taxation illegal such as property and school taxes would be outlawed.

The environmental part is probably unpopular in these forums but I have seen all too often aggregious negligent nuclear and chemical plant operators. The anarchist/libertarian view of dealing with them after the fact is ridiculous since by that time we are already exposed and environment permanently damaged. I am not too happy about the high levels of Tritium and Strontium forced upon my area by Entergy nor the fact that we can't drill any wells due to the pollute and go out of business chemical factories in my area.

 

[Brett85]

"The environmental part is probably unpopular in these forums but I have seen all too often aggregious negligent nuclear and chemical plant operators. The anarchist/libertarian view of dealing with them after the fact is ridiculous since by that time we are already exposed and environment permanently damaged. I am not too happy about the high levels of Tritium and Strontium forced upon my area by Entergy nor the fact that we can't drill any wells due to the pollute and go out of business chemical factories in my area."

But laws regulating the environment aren't authorized by the Constitution. I think if you support federal environmental laws, you should push for a Constitutional amendment to actually give Congress that authority.

 

[kahless]

But laws regulating the environment aren't authorized by the Constitution. I think if you support federal environmental laws, you should push for a Constitutional amendment to actually give Congress that authority.

I think the federal government EPA and NRC are far too corrupt to be given that power. They would have to be overhauled or eliminated and replaced with new organizations. How to stop the new organization from being corrupt I could only of think of perhaps elected officials with the requirement that they are scientists in the industry.

 

[nayjevin]

I agree you can't just deal with restitution after the fact in a case like nuclear disaster. But we can imagine things would be different if we did not rely on safety assurance from inept corrupt, and politicized government institutions. Just like right now we cannot rely on government reports of fallout. In fact we're seeing interested private individuals debunking the false reports of the 'expert' government officials. And this isn't even a free market!

 

[Teaser Rate]

Important issues

1. National security: if the government can’t keep us safe in the nuclear age, nothing else really matters.

2. Economic policy: reform taxes & regulations, eliminate most subsidies, tariffs & quotas and maintain the integrity of the Fed.

3. Domestic policy: ensure the long term solvency of the Federal Government with sensible reforms to the entitlement programs.


Less important issues

1. Abortion: it’s a divisive issue government intervention can’t do anything about anyways.

2. Drugs: while I sympathize with the potheads who are in jail for wasting their lives getting high, we have bigger problems to address right now.

3. Gitmo/Patriot Act: I have yet to meet anyone whose life was directly affected by either policy; at this point, I see these issues as theoretical rather than practical.

 

[Sola_Fide]

Important issues

1. National security: if the government can’t keep us safe in the nuclear age, nothing else really matters.

2. Economic policy: reform taxes & regulations, eliminate most subsidies, tariffs & quotas and maintain the integrity of the Fed.

3. Domestic policy: ensure the long term solvency of the Federal Government with sensible reforms to the entitlement programs.


Less important issues

1. Abortion: it’s a divisive issue government intervention can’t do anything about anyways.

2. Drugs: while I sympathize with the potheads who are in jail for wasting their lives getting high, we have bigger problems to address right now.

3. Gitmo/Patriot Act: I have yet to meet anyone whose life was directly affected by either policy; at this point, I see these issues as theoretical rather than practical.

1. Governments don't keep you safe. Governments endanger you.

2. Maintain the "integrity of the FED"? *facepalm* since when do unaccountable, monopolistic central planning bureaus have any integrity to maintain? LoL!

3. Oh yes. Let's keep our insolvent national ponzi schemes going for longer and longer..........

You know what. I am going to quit responding to your post. I think you must be a troll. You got me!

 

[BenIsForRon]

Civil liberties, Foreign Policy, Environmental Sustainability. In that order.

 

[RonPaulIsGreat]

Reduce total taxes on the state, local, and federal level including property tax, to no more than 15% and required balanced budget, then once hit 15% look to further reduce.

Of course that would require slashing most useless things, like bloated military, Hud, many welfare programs, government workers, etc...


Or I'd trade that for a permanent ban of abortion rambling on the internet, punishable by immediate adult abortion.

But since it's not banned, I'd say the best way to deal with abortion is that it is legal up to the point of rudimentary brain development. After that no abortion, and willingly partaking in such would equate to any other murder.

 

[pcosmar]

You know what. I am going to quit responding to your post. I think you must be a troll. You got me!

Some become more obvious over time.

 

[realtonygoodwin]

bumped for the new folks!

 

[COpatriot]

1. Foreign policy. Dismantle the empire. Get the hell out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya and shut down a lot of the overseas bases. Cut foreign aid. Quit funding both sides of an arms race between Israel and the surrounding Arab states.

2. Civil liberties. Get rid of the "Patriot" Act and restore the 4th Ammendment. End the tremendously wasteful and destructive Drug War. Demilitarize the police. Get the government out of marriage.

 

[The Moravian]

No it does not form a human being at the moment of conception, it forms a human embryo. A bunch of sexual discharge is not the same as a full human being.

A seed does not become a tree the moment you plant it in the ground.



The embryo eventually forms a human being inside the mother, but this does not happen instantaneously at the moment of conception. That is a religious belief, not science.

I would have posted:

1. Federal government that's strictly Constitutional constructionist
2. State and local government limited to prosecuting violence, theft and fraud.

but with so many putting abortion at the top, I wanted to comment:


What is the scientific definition of "human"? What is the scientific definition of "life"? Together it is the definition of "human life".

At conception the DNA is clearly human and distinct from the DNA of both parents; the zygote/embryo is not only human, but it is also not genetically part of the human woman's body.

At conception the growth and physical development of the zygote/embryo fits the biological definition of a living organism, (who's dependence on the mother for food is not changed even after birth).

A human zygote/embryo fits both of these definitions of human life, whereas the sperm and egg separately do not fulfill either definition. (neither egg nor sperm grow and develop, and even with a stretch of the scientific definition of "life", they still are genetically part of the parents body -- and recognized as such in some legal cases.)

The clearest scientific distinction between part of my body (sperm or egg) and my offspring (zygote, embryo, fetus, infant, child, adolescent, adult) happens at conception, not at some point afterward. People could claim ignorance about human life in the womb a century ago, but modern medical instruments and genetics have made this clear to all who dare to see. "The embryo eventually forms a human being" may be more of a belief (religious or otherwise) than science, because there is no scientific definition of "being", it is a metaphysical word, that's why I don't use it in a scientific discussion.

Because these facts have been ignored or withheld from us, I don't blame anyone for being talked into abortion, especially with 40 years of abortion marketing (funded through tax dollars for several years now) by abortion organizations, teachers, media, entertainment and popular culture in general. Therefore the blame rests on those doctors and surgeons who know these medical facts and still perform abortions; they are to be held accountable for taking human lives (and should be thankful that I don't support the death penalty), while the women are often put up to it or duped by salesmanship and sweet little lies.


3. Fully remove the entire Federal Government (including the Supreme Court) from abortion. (including federal funding and interfering with state laws - Roe v. Wade)

 

[liberalrepublican]

Ending these damn wars, curtailing public employee unions, legalizing drugs, cutting spending, universal health care, privacy rights, and creating some kind of physical border barrier with Mexico.


I am amused by all the pro-life responses. Does it really affect you that much?

 

[Hotchney]

1. Monetary policy
2. Foreign policy
3. Reducing the size of the federal government

 

[Zap!]

Over-turning Roe vs. Wade is up there. Abolishing all gun restrictions is a close second.

 

[YumYum]

To me, the abortion issue has become a political tool that is meaningless. Politicians claim they are either "for" or "against" abortion to gain the most votes; with the exception of the majority of fundamentalist Christians and politicians who are Libertarian and pro-life. Otherwise, what has any politician that is "pro-life" ever seriously proposed to end abortions? Its almost like joining a club. You are either "in" or "out". Nowadays, being against abortion is like being against herpes. Either politicians should have a plan to end abortions and do something about it, or just say nothing. This abortion issue is a waste of time till someone with courage and intelligence comes up with a way that we can at least reduce abortions in this country; if not get rid of them all together.

 

[Sola_Fide]

Education. Ending government indoctrination, enabling more fulfilling and effective free market solutions.




I'd say the public school system is also an engine of the state.

Agree.

 

[blocks]

Liberty. Obviously a few issues like Abortion fall ambiguously under that umbrella. And those are important but IMO, the idea of true liberty is much much bigger than the few issues that are still controversial in a true libertarian vision.

 

[JohnGalt1225]

The Federal Reserve. Followed closely by foreign policy. However I believe everything's tied to the FED. Everything. If the government has a printing press where they can just create money when they need it there will never be a stop to their growth. If we take their printing press away they might be forced to live within their means.

 

[JohnGalt1225]

I'm shocked that in times like this, endless wars, ever expansive big brother government, out of control FED, that so many people care so much about abortion. Like someone already stated abortion is just a wedge issue that politicians pay lip service to be never actually work to do anything about. Abortion is just un-important.