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I'm 23. Here's a few things I'd like to see progress on: Affordable education and access to high quality teachers. Bringing our healthcare cost/efficacy pr

I'm 23. Here's a few things I'd like to see progress on: Affordable education and access to high quality teachers. Bringing our healthcare cost/efficacy profile into line with other advanced economies. Repairing and rebuilding crumbling public infrastructure. Environmental reform, especially wrt carbon emissions & how we treat the oceans. Revisiting social security to ensure its long-term viability. Reducing the government's ability to invade privacy. Ending the "war on drugs" and regulating/taxing it like the alcohol or tobacco industry. I'm happy to pay more taxes on my relatively small income if they go towards reforms in these areas. As ex-fed president Kocherlakota notes [1], exceedingly low interest rates and cheap labor are creating a great environment for gov investment. Unfortunately, fiscal policy is stuck in a quagmire due to deep-seated ideological divisions in Washington D.C. [1] https://sites.google.com/site/kocherlakota009/home/policy/thoughts-on-policy/2-19-16 https://sites.google.com/site/kocherlakota009/home/policy/th...

exelius 11y ago
> Unfortunately, fiscal policy is stuck in a quagmire due to deep-seated ideological divisions in Washington D.C. I'm hoping Donald Trump helps to solve this (or rather, helps the GOP implode.). The Republican party has been an ideological mess for the better part of a decade, and that anti-intellectualism is coming back around to bite them in the ass. When men of substance spend all their time tearing each other down, why is it a surprise that a clown is the only one able to rise above the fray? We've needed to hit the reset button on the Republican party since the mid-90s. We're finally getting a chance now that the GOP's corporate backers have so obviously lost control, so hopefully we'll be able to get back to normal within a decade or so.
yummyfajitas 11y ago
Only the last two items on your list (protecting privacy, ending the war on drug users) remotely qualify as change. Everything else qualifies as "funneling more money into existing programs". Consider the most establishment presidential candidate in the race right now. Would Hillary Clinton even use different words to describe her policy proposals? I could imagine policy details that might count as change, but you don't seem to be advocating those. E.g., if you wanted to provide affordable education by replacing teachers with Khan Academy, or cut infrastructure costs down to everywhere-else-in-the-world levels [1] by breaking the back of public employee unions or other such reforms. Are you advocating big change like this? [1] Delhi Metro Phase 2, 77 miles of track and 85 stations cost Delhi $2.9B and 3 years. Hudson Yards, 1 mile of track and 1 station, cost NYC $2.5B and 9 years.

exelius 11y ago

> Unfortunately, fiscal policy is stuck in a quagmire due to deep-seated ideological divisions in Washington D.C. I'm hoping Donald Trump helps to solve this (or rather, helps the GOP implode.). The Republican party has been an ideological mess for the better part of a decade, and that anti-intellectualism is coming back around to bite them in the ass. When men of substance spend all their time tearing each other down, why is it a surprise that a clown is the only one able to rise above the fray? We've needed to hit the reset button on the Republican party since the mid-90s. We're finally getting a chance now that the GOP's corporate backers have so obviously lost control, so hopefully we'll be able to get back to normal within a decade or so.

yummyfajitas 11y ago

Only the last two items on your list (protecting privacy, ending the war on drug users) remotely qualify as change. Everything else qualifies as "funneling more money into existing programs". Consider the most establishment presidential candidate in the race right now. Would Hillary Clinton even use different words to describe her policy proposals? I could imagine policy details that might count as change, but you don't seem to be advocating those. E.g., if you wanted to provide affordable education by replacing teachers with Khan Academy, or cut infrastructure costs down to everywhere-else-in-the-world levels [1] by breaking the back of public employee unions or other such reforms. Are you advocating big change like this? [1] Delhi Metro Phase 2, 77 miles of track and 85 stations cost Delhi $2.9B and 3 years. Hudson Yards, 1 mile of track and 1 station, cost NYC $2.5B and 9 years.