Positions

get your mind out of the gutter kids...i'm not talking about the "dirty sanchez" or the "rusty trombone" or the "meat spin" (nsfw)...though the political maneuvering of some of these candidates can be considered just a despicable or yoga-esque. but as the latest round of democratic debates passes, i wonder what kind of platform i would run on...

sadly, it wouldn't be on hope, it wouldn't be on change, and it wouldn't be on truthiness...it would be on bitch-slapping Americans to a rude awakening. it would be a warning that we have become complacent, corrupt, and criminal...that we can no longer call ourselves the world's anything except joke. when our currency is trading so poorly that we can't even get supermodels to take it.

but back to the issues of the day...

health care: comprehensive reform and universal health care. mandate insurance for all citizens and access for all people. i'd open up the federal employee health benefits plan to ALL those who want it...creating a major pool to keep costs down. that radical hope would be to eliminate the "over 65" clause of medicare...see how those insurance companies react when they have to compete against the low costs of medicare on the individual.

iraq/iran/afganistan: get the hell out...caught to do it safely, so it might take longer than we'd like. but until we get political stability, we're not going to do any good in that region. not only are we losing money and lives, we've already given up all political respect and legitimacy. i mean, how can we go on chastising iran for supporting terrorism when we feed billions of dollars into saudi arabia only to have its citizens come back and bomb the shit out of us. hypocrisy is our foreign policy prerogative, and we need to step back and become the beacon we once were.

china: free-trade isn't going away anytime soon, and neither is our trade deficit as long as we continue to charge our war credit cards and enjoy cheap goods. sorry blue-collar population, but if you enjoy wal-mart and costco-esque prices, then we just have to face the possibility of losing some jobs. so what we need is to establish better trade laws...enforce the rules of the wto...and work on producing the advanced technological/scientific goods that can still dominate the export market.

taxes: sorry uber rich...you guys have been getting away with a criminally low marginal tax limit. can't tax over $97,500?? thats not as high as it used to be these days...so what do you say huh? how about helping out the little guys a little...improve some education, feed social security, better society.

there are definitely plenty more hotspots and democratic g-spots that could be rubbed...but i'm honestly just too lazy to get them down. my motivation is almost as strong as the democratic congress's backbone...that'll give you a good understanding.