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- #21
Joe Miller sucked! Cutting off the media, because they asked tough question about his checkered past. Poor little guy.
I'm happy to see Joe Miller lose, but most of his positions you list here I have no problem with.
(2) Wants to eliminate minimum wage! Sorry about the manufacturing jobs we are losing to China and the 3rd world pay higher than minimum wage! Weak fucking argument!
Third world nations do not get paid more than our minimum wage, not even close. Many people in those nations are lucky to get paid as much as a $1 a day. I have no clue where you pulled that absurdity from. All the minimum wage does is artificially inflate wages above what the market would pay for those skills and makes prices more expensive. But since very few people in the U.S. today even make minimum wage it's almost useless to have it anymore anyway.
(3) Wants to get rid of unemployment benefits! Now that he is umemployed, I bet he is glad they are in place. Extending them forever is good, but they are needed help people transition to another job at their lowest point!
It's not the government's responsibility to give people money when they don't have a job. It's their responsibility to find a job as soon as possible or they can turn to their family, friends, private charity for help. Responsible people also have money saved up in case of instances like this.
(4) End Farm Subsidies - Yea let's make sure all our food is imported, so that we rely on foreigners for manufactured good, energy (oil) and FOOD! Fucking moron!
Explain to us how ending farms subsidies is going to cause all of our food to be imported, especially when it's not uncommon for our government to pay farmers not to grow anything at all. Farm subsidies are another wasteful corporate welfare entitlement. In fact, the bulk of these subsidies go to big, wealthy corporate farmers, so you should hate it.
(5) Privatize all education! Yea because when that was the case in America (and most countries) a good portion of the country (mainly the poor) couldn't afford to educate their children and opted out!
I don't know that his suggestion is the answer, but our current public education system is sure as hell a failure. Allowing for school choice and tying the money to follow the student would go a long way in improving public education.
(6) Senators shouldn't be elected by the people, but by State Legislators! In IL, that would mean Kirk wouldn't be representing the State! Fucking moron!
You do realize that Senators were never elected by the people until 1913 right? It was done via the 17th Amendment and by doing so became one of the largest power grabs by the Federal government because it basically gutted the 10th Amendment and states' powers. Were we still operating under a state appointed U.S. Senate all of these unfunded mandates like No Child Left Behind, the health care bill, etc. would have never seen the light of day.