U.S needs to start fresh

I realized that inorder for start ups,and business to hire more people, the U.S needs a complete reboot.

Here's how we can do it.


1. Look at taxes,and how damn messed up the system is.

--We need to get rid of 100 Percent of all current taxes,inorder to allow the US create a fresh environment,for business in the US.

--We would replace all the current taxes with a single consumption tax. This means,you only get taxed on how much you spend.  NOT ON YOUR FRUITS OF LABOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!(INCOME TAX)


2.We need to bring back the gold standard!
--So no more devaluing of our precious dollar's value!

3.Balanced Budget Amendment!
--The government arn't our lords,so they should not beable to spend more than what they bring in! Just like a citizen could!


4.Every budget GOV should get cut a flat across the board, 25 percent.
Military,Education,Welfare,subsides,farming...ect..ect!

5.A temporary block on environmental restrictions,until the unemployment rate,reach a certain number!

>>40
When I mentioned that austerity measures are implemented by people who are incapable of balancing a budget, I was being coy and meant "right-wingers". Obviously, you want to make sure the trade deficit is taken care of first. But, of course, you cannot have deficits and debt forever.

>>37
same like everyone else entering a career? Teachers get fucking coddled ridiculously.

>>42
same like everyone else entering a career?
Years ago, I would have said "no". The huge problem is that wages today were sufficient nearly two decades ago, that isn't the case today (note: this applies to pretty much everything, not just teaching positions).
Teachers get fucking coddled ridiculously.
Pure unadulterated bullshit. I say they're not honored enough! In the rest of the Anglosphere, a teaching position is a position of respect, and not surprisingly the countries in the rest of the Anglosphere achieve higher excellence in education than does the US. I'm guessing that this constant attack on "teachers" here correlates with the rising culture of anti-intellectualism. It certainly wouldn't surprise me if that is the prime motivator.

>>43
It's kind of anti-intellectual to pin everything on "anti-intellectualism", isn't it? I'm pretty sure a term invented by butthurt pseudo-intellectuals isn't the root cause of an actual problem in society.

>I'm guessing that this constant attack on "teachers" here correlates with the rising culture of anti-intellectualism.

More like an ever growing bureaucracy more worried about money than results.

We blow so many trillions of dollars on education,each year it's such a joke.

Yet we are ranked ....what 22nd?

>>44
When you have a culture where you have people like Michele Bachmann that say things like Hurricane Irene was punishment from God, people think you're a some kind of Einstein because you can correctly answer five clues on one episode of Jeopardy!, one where people cannot locate major nations or continents on a blank or incorrectly-labeled map, people (depending on where you live in the country) that think homeschooling and Jaysus is the answer to all the problems of education, then yes, it certainly is. It's not unreasonable or unfair to say that there's a burgeoning culture of anti-intellectualism going around. People have to realize that educating oneself isn't entirely just a formal matter, it's also autodidactic.

>>45-46
What I also found interesting is that other countries that are doing much better, completely eliminated their standardized testing and measure success in education via other methods. The never-ending trumpet here is "We need more standardized testing! More stringent tests!", and yet, the education declines further.

>>47

How do you propose to measure whether the kids know what they need to know without tests?  It's illogical to say you educate someone and never find out whether they know what they need to know.  Standardized testing is the best way to make sure that the basic stuff gets covered.

>>48
You seem to have looked over what I wrote
completely eliminated their standardized testing and measure success in education via other methods.
It's illogical to say you educate someone and never find out whether they know what they need to know.
Other countries use some sort of audit system to measure not only student success, but also how well teachers are employing such. The whole system seems to work much more efficiently, and also better able to determine its own status (not to mention less bureaucratic and less costly). I see no reason why the US cannot do so. I think either Virginia or West Virginia is starting to use such methods to improve their education standards. It seems like education reform will happen amongst the individual states, until the Federal government realizes that doing things the old way simply doesn't work.

>>49
I see no reason why the US cannot do so.
Reason: Unions and yuppies.

The former ensure that the entitlement mentality dominates in teachers in the public school systems, as well as ensuring that those teachers are insulated from the consequences of simply not doing their jobs.  The latter ensure that the bootstrapping nature of public education continues to turn into outright militant elitism by the level of secondary education, where unions do not dominate (and why should they, since the liberal indoctrination there is even stronger).

>>49
No, seriously.  How do you measure what the children are learning, if not by testing them?  "HURR DURR WE GOTS MAGICAL POWAHS, WE IS DA EDUMACATIONAL PROFESSHUNALZ, WE KNOWS WHAT WE BEEZ DOINS, YOU TAXPAYER SCUM HAVE NO RIGHT TO QUESTION US" is what got us where we are now.

>>50
Unions
Other countries have teacher labor unions as well, and their education isn't as shitty. I think in the US, it's more of a systemic problem and it's not just simply "Yuppies" and "Unions".

>>51
No, seriously.  How do you measure what the children are learning, if not by testing them?
You have poor reading comprehension. Re-read what I wrote in >>49

Austerity measures... lol

I love how they water drought-tolerant plants along the side of the highway every single night of the week, but they have the nerve to tell us to take shorter showers.