It is time to realize the nightmares they have been talking about have arrived. The reality of THAT TRUTH is not enough. The Republicans are seeking to turn loose every aspect of indecency as an insult to civility as a political advantage. We cannot do that anymore. We really can't.
Reconciling the dialogue with Republican Insurgents/Extremists is not the path we all need. They need to come to their knees of reality and get over themselves. It is the only path. Heck, get rid of McConnell in 2014. We can't afford him or his type anymore for reasons of reality. It is just the way it is. We cannot afford the regressive agenda of the GOP. We really can't. Fact. Not fiction.
The Brave New World of inclusion of all the people of the USA is the only way to move forward. Oppressing reality through the oppression of the dialogue and the people is not the reality we can afford anymore.
In immigration, one of the aspects noted to be a so called 'selling point' for encouraging Republicans to sign on to legislation is to ask for back taxes. NO WAY. There needs to be a 'means test' for any 'asking' for back taxes. Back taxes is a huge hurdle to people already working within the USA economy. It is outrageous to ask the poor, after inclusion, to remain poor.
We need to get on with all this. Today. Not the next decade.
With the Third World facing problems of the infiltration of terrorists nations and the Climate Crisis having arrived, the Democrats can proudly state they never lied to the American people. They have carried the message of truth for nearly a century.
With respect to a chained - CPI for SSI: NO! A means test is necessary and a structured benefit based on that means test is FIRST required.
In introducing a Chained CPI to SSI there needs to be a means testing attached to it. A Chained CPI is too much to ask of the poor. This is the elderly and the disabled. How are they going to do to fight back from a fixed income falling in value against the cost of living? It is hideous. It is completely immoral and unrealistic.
The Democrats need to work with the Entitlement's Actuaries to find effectiveness it extending the integrity of SSI, Medicare and Medicaid. They need to apply Means Testing and a Chained CPI with Means Testing and move forward in the understandings that brings.
Tax Reform is a requirement in the USA. The longer there are loopholes,the longer there will be strategies around paying taxes.
The USA needs a poverty agenda. It needs a poverty agenda domestically and internationally.
Domestically, we know when people are in poverty they cannot improve their quality of life or increase economic growth. That has to change.
Internationally, the global community and all the ongoing summits need to include in their priorities changing the outcomes of programs that enforce poverty rather than destroy it. The world cannot go on forever committing vast sums of monies to Third World countries after disaster hits or in post-war reparations. Each country has to have a sustainable economy built to elevate their living standard. They need to have their sovereignty granted to them. Finally, they need to participate in real world scenarios of economic growth. Each nation needs to have a self supporting economy with only a percentage of it coming from trade with others.
China is an example of how The West fails itself, both, in their customer base in the USA and in a self-supporting economy within China. China needs to address its' internal economy as it addresses its dual monetary policy. These changes are important, but, in the case of China it needs to ease into a new paradigm of economic growth.
The Chinese leadership has been addressing that in recent speeches to global audiences. As its internal economic stability improves, it can scale back its exports and increase stability. China cannot continue on an export economy only. It is a huge whole in its national security. The USA can 'tool up' overnight for economic growth because of its education infrastructure. But, China does not have that ability and IN THAT is the reality it is very vulnerable from economic shifts.
The Chinese CAN address its dual monetary reality. As they bring about a growth economy within the country, they can introduce its international currency as a new hope for the people. They can begin to trade in small quantities their old currency for the new. It will provide a point of hope for the future of China as seeking to participate in a solidly real way as a global economic power. Small increments have to happen otherwise China will see an economy of money exchange as now exists in IRAN. Fear of losing their day to day coping through vast money changes to each Chinese family will cause pandemonium there. Small introductions to new currency will work and increase the sovereign strength of China.
As China seeks to stabilize and grow its infrastructure, QUALITY of their products has to be on it's agenda. There have to be reassurances their 'health' products and 'food' products meet standards to nations they are trading with, otherwise, their markets will be removed though lack of consumer base by the choices those consumers make rather than simply what is available.
Russia just needs to keep doing what it is doing. I like Medvedev. Putin has to stop taking on the mantle of the angry communist.
Look, when the old Soviet Union under Kruschev invaded countries it didn't go over well. It didn't go over well anywhere including the invaded country. In the long run, the invasions caused huge ethnic divides as factions against the invasion looked for points of strength to oppose it.
Medvedev left the mighty Kruschev and his war machine behind. He went to nations willing to have him in diplomacy and built alliances. Medvedev let the nation in alliance with Russia to work with its people. Come on Vladimir. Tomorrow is about stability, not war. The planet cannot handle this mess between The West and The East anymore. AND, while Russia can counter its carbon footprint with its vast wilderness, the Russia carbon footprint increases with oil exports. Hello?
Oh, one more thing. Put up a memorial to Kruschev. The USA does to its leaders regardless of how malicious they have been. Why deny responsibility?
Vladimir. Do me a favor? When talking to Cameron, will you ask him to stop being a imperial power and talking down to the colonies. They aren't colonies anymore!
