So I don't know how much of US politics gets covered outside the US, but the main argument here is along parties lines, at least in the press. The Democrats want to raise taxes on rich people; the Republicans want to lower taxes on rich people. Democrats want to keep our new healthcare shindig; Republicans want to get rid of it. In general, everything is about money, jobs, and national debt, with the Democrats on the left and Republicans on the right, and America getting shot from both sides because their all silly. It just frustrates me when there are obvious solutions, but people don't want to do anything about them, and by people, I mean government.
Healthcare -- Why the hell are we spending trillions of dollars on health insurance? For god's sake, if we have trillions of dollars sitting around, why don't we just put it in a fund, and then give it to sick people? More importantly, we should just think about the numbers for a second. The main purpose of healthcare reform was to get 30 million people health insurance who didn't have it. Ok. Then we spend a trillion dollars on it. That's, what, $300,000 per year, per person? Clearly, something is off here.
Defense -- Our main problem with defense is that people get ticky when we have a big army. So, we make our army smaller by having less soldiers, but we want the same level of power, so instead we hire civilian contractors to do the exact same job for 20 times as much money. That's idiotic. Why don't we just let as many people as want to be soldiers, be soldiers? Give em jobs, and skills, and education that way, instead of just giving the money to people who are already skilled and educated.
Debt -- I think most people know that I'm conservative. I like the whole "balance the damn budget, a-wholes" deal. The debt isn't really an issue that can be solved in isolation; it's all of the other things that combine to make a solution. We have a boat load of debt, and we spend more money than our entire nation makes. Not cool. Yes, we have to take things away from people. Don't get me wrong, I like my government interest free student loans, but at some point, you have to realize that the government can't and shouldn't provide it's people with everything; it should only provide the absolute basics and only if you can't get them otherwise. You get rice and beans for food and you get water to drink. You don't like that? Work hard, search the city for any work to get you something better. Beggars can't be choosers. That goes for everyone, even single moms with sick children, sorry as I am to say that. Charities should look after people like that, not government, because government is horrendously inefficient money-wise.