Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Three Most Important Policies

1) Foreign Policy: Our Foreign policy is atrocious and needs to be addressed immediately. Prior to the Civil War we never committed an act of aggression but since the North's invasion of the South we have decided it is OK. Here is all of our defensive wars:

- American Revolutionary War (1776)
- Barbary War I (1801)
- War of 1812 (1812)
- Barbary War II (1815)
- Mexican-American War (1846)
- American-Japanese War (1941)

Offensive Wars:

- American "Civil War" (1861)
- Spanish-American War (1898)
- World War I (1918)
- World War II (1941)
- Korean Civil War (1950)
- Vietnam War (1960)
- First Persian Gulf War (1991)
- War on Terror (2001)
- Second Persian Gulf War (2003)

This is not even counting the countless times we have sent aide and supplied nations/movements for political ambitions. There are also countless military alliances (such as NATO) that have made for really bad policies. (Such as a time we had alliances with Britian and Argentina and they went to war.. wee)

2) Monetary Policy: I don't think I can stress it enough that we need to get away from Central Banking and inflationary spending. We're on the verge of hyperinflation, major unemployment and political instability and this is a big reason. I think Foreign Policy has a slight considered 53% of government spending is "defensive spending", although it's not really in the name of defense.

The Federal Reserve is scared of an audit, but if a vote were cast today it'd pass the House and it might even pass the Senate. It's something the people want, and the Fed fears it. Fears what exactly? I don't know, but it's clearly obvious they have fear.

3) Party Restrictions: I think the fact that the Republican and Democratic Parties have had a monopoly on politics since the 1870s had a strain on forming policy. It wasn't so bad at first, as liberty still mattered until the 1980s, but I think the fact stands that they are arrogant and foolish when it comes top political policy. Let's just take a look at major political parties in American history:

Federalist Party (1792) Presidents: 1
National Republican Party (Democratic-Republican) (1792) Presidents: 4
Democratic Party (1828) Presidents: 16
Whig Party (1833) Presidents: 4
Republican Party (1854) Presidents: 18

As you can tell, there have been no major changes to the political party madness since 1854 (which the Whigs died out by the Civil War). What happened? Favorable laws for Republicans and Democrats were beginning to be passed by 1869 and would eventually make it nearly impossible for third-parties to function efficiently in the American political framework. This has ought to change.

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