The main reason I’m rooting for alternatives is to break the
monopoly that oil has on our transportation. For about 100
years it has been the only thing worth using in our vehicles
(including airplanes and trains, excluding subway trains).

We need something that compete with gasoline (stable,
cheap, energy efficient, with enough storage capacity to go
a fair distance), and if we can make it clean at the same time,
it’ll make it perfect. After all, we do live in our own waste,
just ask LA…

This move would seriously injure the US economy (sending more money overseas) as well as increase the unemployment rate (sending more job opportunities overseas).

Truthfully, the best overall plan would be to reduce taxes across the board, and the only real way to accomplish this would be to make the government significantly leaner and more efficient.
I doubt we’ll see this plan adopted by either major party. Reason? Power corrupts.

Really, the political parties should be done away with. They’re in the way and keeping the country from reaching its full potential.

Although, caps lock for a shouting effect is always fun.

@cobrajoe I’ll have to go look up the unemployment info, but I do know that the overall figure doesn’t reflect individual regions. While it may be a certain way “on average” There may be many places where it is much worse than the national average. The thing that I think is very important, but rarely represented, is the number of people who have jobs, but are UNDER employed. By this I mean people who have been bought out on early retirement when their company downsized or shipped their job overseas, but have had to take a job they are overqualified in order to make ends meet. Also, there are many people, like me, who have earned a Bachelors degree or better, who can not find employment in their profession or in a profession that requires they be educated at all. Salaries for the middle class have been going down, not up. My own example is that although our income has increased VERY modestly, we have been taking home less and less every year largely because the cost of our benefits has gone up. Pile that with the increased cost of living because of fuel, and prices of consumer goods, and we wind up in bad shape. This sort of thing is not represented in those figures! This is why I think McCain doesn’t get it and why it demonstrates trickle down not working. Hardworking people like us ought to be able to get ahead under the trickle down conditions, but it just isn’t so.

I don’t think the rich should gove up being rich so that everybody can be equal, but I do think that those who can shoulder a little more without feeling the burden very heavily should do so. McCain himself used to proclaim this. I know people like me can’t handle any more or we will be broken. This is what democrats are trying to prevent. I don’t think republicans want to see this happen, but I think they’re out of touch with what’s really happening here on the ground.

As for the rich paying taxes, the top 1% pay 39.89% of the total income tax paid, and the top 10% pay 70.79%. Click my name for the source.

Though that is a good point (the second one).

I entered this as an actual discussion. I was hoping to either learn something, or help explain the views I have. Neither has occurred.

I did not claim that link as a source, just as a person who believes that global warming is a hype, as do I.

As for the religion comment, it was not aimed at you having a false religion, just comparing the zeal of one trying to prove their religion.

I did not intend to end up attacking you, or anyone else with your views on the subject.
I am also sorry I broke my own rule as to not discuss this topic.The discussion got heated and went nowhere.

Apologies to all, though if incontrovertible evidence ever comes to light, then one of us will have the opportunity to feel like a fool for arguing our side–I’ll drink to that.

I recently graduated from a university with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. It would be safe to say that the majority of my classmates would understand “complex issues” in an internal combustion engine better than an English major, but most of them cannot spell and they use horrible grammar. (Hey, if you can understand it, then the message was conveyed.)

His plan is to extend the Bush tax cuts.

Also, any tax cut on a business will be allocated to upgrading the company, and/or help out the investors.
Remember, even CEO’s have to answer to someone (the investors)