Americans in general should pay more taxes .

Ummm.... I know it has been a few years since I have been in school, much less taken a geography lesson, but if memory serves me correctly, Hawaii is actually one of the 50 states......Just sayin....

 

Are actual facts really the point in this thread?

 

Start by cutting the golden parachutes of ALL senators and congressmen. Shorten terms as well. Make all politicians pay their own cash for their campaigns. Stop corporate donations entirely to campaigns. Stop fighting wars all over the world at all times. Start investing in America and American people thru education and training.

 

Last I heard a friend of mine on a local tribe got something like 25k a quarter, on top of the next to free upper level education, and the money the tribes rake in from casino's. But hey their tribe was ravashed some 200 years ago so we should still pay for the burden of war and conquest.

Need I say more than has already been said here?

What a fucking concept, only problem is how will we manipulate the oil rich middle east without stiring their pots first with some lucrative wars. Their is a reason we have not invested in syria, theres nothing worth a damn there.

 

Fuck that, here is Step 1.........keep all the money that hardworking people here earn and it not be handed out to all the other countries around the world for nothing in return other than paying them off to act like our "friends". Then maybe the rest of the world can feel just how how bad of place this is like they all want to make it out to be. Insource all of our jobs back here, secure our borders and let all the other countries around the world solve their own problems themselves without any of our "interference" and see how that goes. How about paying off our debts with that money? Bet it wouldn't take long and wouldn't take money from our kids and grandkids either.

 

Should we still protect Canada from a hostile Mexican takeover?

 

Haha, was reading that the casino's are taking a beating and the cash flow is stopping for the tribes that get it.
Foxwoods is 2 billion in the hole right now.

 

This is step 2.........see step 1 above.

 

No shit, links to articles?

 

no, I read it in an old fashioned form of media. It's made from trees and distributed manually about town.

 

fun facts:
USA's public debt is ~$15,780,000,000,000
Canada's public debt is ~$584,000,000,000 (1/27th that of USA, aboot 2.7x less when you factor in the population difference)

China's share of the US public debt is $1,145,500,000,000 or roughly double Canada's total public debt...

but what do I know, we're just a bunch of socialist syrup swillers... who happen to be more fiscally responsible than our neighbours to the South.

 

Radical budget cuts are what has been needed for many years, and is what is needed today. We are currently WAY overtaxed, raising them is off the table...

 

Easy to think that but since you want to post up numbers, post up how much aid we hand out a year to every country around the world then post up how much "socialist syrup swillers" (your words, not mine) do then adjust the previous numbers that were posted and then we can start to have a conversation about fiscal responsibility. How many people have jobs at or in support of us having embassy's in other countries? or bases? How many people are employed around the world with the sole purpose of sending shit here to sell or support industries that do? It goes on and on. People don't have any idea how bad off their countries will be if the biggest comsumer nation on the planet withdraws or goes kaput. Nothing but bad shit awaits those who wish us to fail. So fails their own shit.

 

You're so fiscally responsible that your debt to income ratio is worse that ours.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Public_debt_percent_gdp_world_map.PNG

 

per capita we give more to foreign countries than the US.

 

never mind the fact that Canada is not speaking Russian because the USA is right next door.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt

 

LOL you call it aid

Population wise yes we pay somewhat of a high demand, corporation wise....not even close.

Holy shit those still exist in Mass? What casino's were they discusing in the paper? Better yet what states?

 

When did that happen ?

 

You're not