I'm really not any sort of classification, because I don't know much about politics. If my opnions classify me, lemme know.
Abortion: 1st trimester only... the emotional waves will be felt for a lifetime, but it should be her choice. Also acceptable if the mother is going to die if she has the child.... it should be her choice.
Gay Rights: Homosexuals are humans too. While I do not support their sexual style, I must respect their humanity and give them all of the freedoms of their country and religion.
Religion in Gov't: We just can't do that anymore. Too many religions and too many views. We'd spend all year arguing and never get anything done. And we'd get opposing votes by one religion just because they don't like the other. That happens enough with the bipartisan system as it is.
Gun Control: If you disarm the population, you make them cannon fodder for who who do not follow the law. I forget who said it, but "if you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have them."
Death Penalty: I'm still torn. I'm more for it than against it. I do acknowledge that no one truly has the right to take a life aside from God. But tell that to the family of a ten year old who was raped, chopped up, and it was all filmed. I say, "fry him."
Education: It needs a MAJOR overhaul, especially in the south. It needs more funding than almost anything else. An educated population is a powerful one (but also a dangerous one to whomever has been controlling them all along, which is why I think education in America sucks so bad).
Homeland Security: If I were a terrorist, I'd strap a nuke to a truck carrying Mexicans over the border. It would be sure to blow up something in America. Moral of the story: for all the freedom we've been restricting, we've done little to nothing to seal the holes in our country's security. It's worse today than it was on 9/11.... and that's from a stupid citizen's point of view. Do it right and close borders to all without proper ID or just let it go.
Middle East: I didn't know we had the right to invade any country that might have "weapons of mass destruction." Since we obviously do, why aren't we stationed in about eight other countries all over the world? Oh, yeah.... look who our president is. He's finishing what daddy started and he's getting my friends and relatives killed to do it. Oh wait... we got Saddam. Then why the hell are we sending MORE of our brave men and women over there when chidren are dying in OUR streets and you can find drugs, sex, and guns at every street corner in America? Why are we shoving our fat noses where it doesn't need to be if our country is rotting from the inside? Pull those soldiers out of the middle of nowhere, let them lead their lives, and put all of this wasted money into reforming OUR country. We need help more than most of the places we're poking around in!
Health Care: Capitalism at it's finest. People are sick and dying, ladies and gentleman!!! We need all the help we can get and we're letting our grandparents and children die because the pharmacutical companies want to make an extra dime. This is the one area where there should be no bickering or haggling. Besides, if you truly want more money, you know that you can't make more money off of a dead man, right?
Social Security: I'm torn again. There needs to be some program in place, but not one that's crippling our economy. The current state of it all is dragging the nation down. It needs reform or it needs to be ditched.
Taxes: We can all complain, but it's not going to change. It's controlled by the biggest crooks in the country, where the rich have their hands in everyone's pockets, even the government's. I've given in to the fact that the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer (most do not even file... but they don't own anything either). I do not desire to be rich, not do I desire to be poor. I just try to keep my head up.
Environment: If it keeps going, Earth is going to be a wasteland. While I like big towering cities, it's not as much a matter of aesthetics as it is a matter of making the planet unlivable. We need to preserver what we have left and save it for research. All these people running scared because of meltdowns need to understand that nuclear energy is possibly the world's savior as it stands. Besides, planes crash and cars collide, do we all just walk? No. Chain reacting fusion needs to happen if the coming energy crisis is to be averted and our environments are to be saved. I also thing that zoning laws need to be redone and need to be nonnegotiable. I've seen places that residentials couldn't move onto that a company pays a few million and can set down a processing plant. That land is priceless, and that few million bucks or whatever shady deals that happened are going to cost way more when the surface of Earth gets to be a few hundred degrees.
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