What Americans Really Want: 10 Policies We Can All Agree On

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Large majorities of Americans agree on some of the most important issues of the day, from health care to foreign policy. These "Ten Policies for a Better America" shows an agenda a majority supports -- whether we vote red, blue, or some other political color.

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What the author was trying to say, is that when Americans are asked about specific policies, the support is not divided along ideological lines....but that's not as sexy as saying, 'policies we can all a agree on.'

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Large majorities of Americans agree on some of the most important issues of the day, from health care to foreign policy. These "Ten Policies for a Better America" shows an agenda a majority supports -- whether we vote red, blue, or some other political color.

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What the author was trying to say, is that when Americans are asked about specific policies, the support is not divided along ideological lines....but that's not as sexy as saying, 'policies we can all a agree on.'

Now your professing what the author was trying to say, but didnt? You ought to open one of those there palm readin stores!

[Fandango 1,439]

Large majorities of Americans agree on some of the most important issues of the day, from health care to foreign policy. These "Ten Policies for a Better America" shows an agenda a majority supports -- whether we vote red, blue, or some other political color.

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What the author was trying to say, is that when Americans are asked about specific policies, the support is not divided along ideological lines....but that's not as sexy as saying, 'policies we can all a agree on.'

Steven...I don't think anyone would disagree with concepts like 'a thriving economy'...but how we can achieve that is up for debate....but as to what you just said above....there's a straw in the upper upper right corner.....get on yer tip toes....

[Kathryn41 3,205]

What I found disturbing is while 81% polled do not favour torture, that means that 19% do. So nearly 1/5th of the population believe that torture is acceptable? Now, that is frightening.

Edited December 14, 2008 by Kathryn41

[Sister Fracas 5]

What I found disturbing is while 81% polled do not favour torture, that means that 19% do. So nearly 1/5th of the population believe that torture is acceptable? Now, that is frightening.

Indeed....

[mawilson 2,133]

'10 policies we can all agree on' and then stats as low as 55%.....I *heart* Steven, he's awesome

[mRx 16]

• Repair and rebuild neglected bridges, railroads, schools, and other infrastructure, designing for climate change & a post-petroleum world.
• Extend unemployment insurance benefits.
• Provide tax relief to middle- and low-income families, and reinstate fair taxes on high-wealth individuals and corporate profits.
• Adopt the Employee Free Choice Act to increase opportunities to unionize.

67% Favor public works projects to create jobs.

55% Favor expanding unemployment benefits.

73% Say corporations don't pay a fair share of taxes.

76% Support tax cuts for lower- and middle-income people.

71% Say unions help their members; 53% say unions help the economy in general.

I don't why this public works project Obama has planned is so glamorized. It's not going to create anything. We, the people, create everything. Government cannot get money anywhere but from us. Whether it be overt (taxation) or covert (inflationary money creation).

So all that is really happening with this infrastructure scheme is jobs and wealth are being forced from the private sector to the public sector. We can not gain wealth through intervention and coercion. It can only be transferred and reallocated.

Edited December 14, 2008 by Matt85

[rebeccajo 14]

• Repair and rebuild neglected bridges, railroads, schools, and other infrastructure, designing for climate change & a post-petroleum world.
• Extend unemployment insurance benefits.
• Provide tax relief to middle- and low-income families, and reinstate fair taxes on high-wealth individuals and corporate profits.
• Adopt the Employee Free Choice Act to increase opportunities to unionize.

67% Favor public works projects to create jobs.

55% Favor expanding unemployment benefits.

73% Say corporations don't pay a fair share of taxes.

76% Support tax cuts for lower- and middle-income people.

71% Say unions help their members; 53% say unions help the economy in general.

I don't why this public works project Obama has planned is so glamorized. It's not going to create anything. We, the people, create everything. Government cannot get money anywhere but from us. Whether it be overt (taxation) or covert (inflationary money creation).

So all that is really happening with this infrastructure scheme is jobs and wealth are being forced from the private sector to the public sector. We can not gain wealth through intervention and coercion. It can only be transferred and reallocated.

Matt, there are still facilities being used, bridges being crossed and roads being driven over that were built after the Great Depression by workers on the WPA.

A nation needs an infrastructure to be called a nation. If the next administration were indicating they were going to make it easier to simply sit around on your ####### and draw a welfare check, I could understand the outcry. But putting people to work to build things we need is far from not 'creating' anything.

Historically what the WPA did was put people to work on infrastructure projects UNTIL there were private sector jobs created. I could say that some folks are glamorizing the free markets if I wanted to apply the same logic you seem to be applying. The fact of the matter is that new private sector business and jobs won't happen overnight, no matter how powerfully one wants to believe in American 'capitalism' (a term I think is rather loose myself).

Edited December 14, 2008 by rebeccajo

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Those on the Right had long proclaimed that this was a Center Right Nation and therefore believed that policies put forth should reflect the majority. Now the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak - there is wide majority support of many policies which have been rejected under the Bush Administration and now with a new administration stepping in next month, we have a chance to realize the change that Obama was campaigning on. It's not about liberal vs. conservative, but about going with a populist agenda. That's something we should all agree on.

[Pooky 3,795]

I still maintain that what the people want and what Congress want are rarely the same. And unfortunately, the people vote every two years, and Congress votes whenever Nancy Pelosi is convinced she won't get embarrassed by the result.

When popular opinion meets politics, politics wins 99.99% of the time.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I still maintain that what the people want and what Congress want are rarely the same. And unfortunately, the people vote every two years, and Congress votes whenever Nancy Pelosi is convinced she won't get embarrassed by the result.

When popular opinion meets politics, politics wins 99.99% of the time.

I'm no fan of Pelosi either and if Congress fails to deliver a populist agenda, not only will Obama's presidency go to sh!t, but this whole country, IMO.

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Oh, Steven, you crazy hippie!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Oh, Steven, you crazy hippie!

[Danno 1,228]

What I found disturbing is while 81% polled do not favour torture, that means that 19% do. So nearly 1/5th of the population believe that torture is acceptable? Now, that is frightening.

Not sure why you would be stunned at only 19% of people claiming they might accept torture, I am betting that number would go past 50% if the right question were asked.

Let's see how this might go.....

" we know a bomb is planted in the city somewhere and intell indicates it will kill thousands within 12 hours,

we have just taken one of the group leaders into custody but he has not responded to our direct questions.

SHould we

a. get him a lawyer so he understands his rights?

b. waterboard his azz?

When you don't have to make these decisions, it's easy to stick to some lofty principle, when you know your lofty decision will mean the lost lives of innocent people, in order to protect the one causing lives to be lost, it's not so easy.

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[Peikko 1,575]

Sticking to 'lofty principles' is what seperates 'us' from 'them'. You should try it sometime. Needless to say, waterboarding and other forms of torture simply don't work - in terms of extracting useful information. About the only thing it seems to do is make some people feel good about giving their enemies a taste of their own sadistic medicine. Oh the joy of reading such flawed logic as comes from the keyboard of Dannoboy