How to Save America

[Wisemon]

I know I'm going to get flamed for this one.

Damn straight, everything you just said straddles the line between stupid and evil.

Get rid of the minimum wage. Now, now, don't rial up against me in some fury, hear me out. If everybody lowers their paychecks, the deflation caused by it will increase their spending power (because their savings would be worth more), we will be able to pay back our debts as a nation more, and would also decrease unemployment.

As it is, Wal-Mart employees don't make enough to get off welfare. I'm not saying it should be raised right now, but certainly don't cut it.

First, we could cut legislation against such companies like the drug companies (also decreasing unemployment), therefore phasing out such programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, which would get rid of 17% of our government spending (roughly 308.5 billion dollars), secondly we could cut subsidiaries to such things as powerplants (which only serves to create monopolies, and don't really accomplish anything), we could (as Bush said) phase out Social Security, cutting another 22% of our budget, privatize NASA (it's going there anyway), decrease our National Defense budget (like, say, letting the UN in Iraq and Afghanistan, and not getting involved in any more wars. We can bring down Al Queda through the CIA, and the like). Oh, and we can privatize enviornmental programs (possibly the government would give them subsidiaries/tax exemption). This would make it much easier to pay off our national debt, drastically cut taxes, and, get this...HAVE A BALANCED BUDGET!

Right now, drugs aren't regulated enough, and as I've explained, drug companies have more than enough profit to through around. For instance, did you notice the multiple Super Bowl penis pill ads? I'll agree that we seriously need to decrease military spending. First, let's stop building new weapons (shit, I'm an engineer). Second, let's call it a semi-victory and start pulling troops (if Iraq fails with U.S. troops gone, it wasn't a real democracy anyway). Privatizing government programs doesn't work, plain and simple. It's just an excuse to abandon funding. If they were profitable, there would already be private companies. Nobody wants to insure just the elderly for health insurance (Medicare). Nobody wants to give them handouts (social security). That's why the government has to do it. I think the ideal solution would be the mandatory execution of all smokers over 65. They've had long enough to quit, and they're just going to drain Medicare with their lung cancer or various other complications. Seniors are the greatest burden (not the greatest generation), so we need to make them prove that they really deserve their handouts, that they're really doing everything they can on their own to help themselves.