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Alhazad wrote:can i be your running mate? i have this great plan to put all the nuclear waste in montana

We're already trying to put in into Utah, isn't that good enough?

(Or was it Nevada... I think it was Nevada).

Those posts may explain the lack of success of America II. :p

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Solar is close the price of natural gas, but only cuz gas has gotten so bloody expensive.

Wait, that doesn't address the feasibility issue at all. What feasibility issue? They already do a popular vote, how is it not feasible? You said: I disagree, I believe the electoral college was a way of allowing for a presidential election on such a grand scale in a reasonable amount of time. If, ...

GORDON wrote:
TheCatt wrote:Coal plants, but with scrubbers/etc for example.

I vote we have a nuclear-only power grid.

Coal is so... 1800's.

Sure, go all France on us.

Hmmm.

Some public assistance with some way to figure out if they can do public service work?

I like Thib's idea... completely free (law-sense, not cost) web hosting, etc.

I'm in favor of immigrants with skillz and that want jobs we don't want.

laissez-faire, if only to see how it really works.

On the other hand, what about drugs, etc that end up killing people since they weren't tested and such? People can just sue back, but what if the company goes bankrupt first?

Yeah, I like the protecting of land/nature/etc.

Coal plants, but with scrubbers/etc for example.

Flat tax good, but some per-person tax credit or something, so the poor are quite as taxed, but rich aren't significantly over-taxed.

Voting, but with super-majorities instead of simple majorities?
Voting, but only on laws that get out of "Congress" (or whatever replaces it)?
Voting, but only on items approved by the supreme leader?

What about a graduated unemployment system? Small check for those not working, larger check for those doing "public service", but the check slightly diminishes to nothing each week to increase motivation?

I didn't read the whole thing...

But what about personal automated transportation? The flexibility of cars, without the driving hassle? Could have different sizes available, pretty much there on demand, etc?

I like the central/south america idea.

And Afghanistan is poor for a reason, lack of natural resources and all.

How indeed, and without resorting to a police state?

Hmm... genetic modification?

Where does everyone want to live? The state that rocks the house the most. Let states compete by having their own vastly different political and social structures (within the rough boundaries of the constitution, of course ... certain rules must be kept) and thus turn state politics into another fo...

I disagree, I believe the electoral college was a way of allowing for a presidential election on such a grand scale in a reasonable amount of time. If, back in the day (think signing of Constitution era), we waited for every popular vote to be cast and taken to D.C., it would have been time for ano...

I disagree, I believe the electoral college was a way of allowing for a presidential election on such a grand scale in a reasonable amount of time. If, back in the day (think signing of Constitution era), we waited for every popular vote to be cast and taken to D.C., it would have been time for ano...

GORDON wrote:You know, I keep hearing people say, "When you start believing that people who have different views from you are morons, or are mentally defective, then you are officially an extremist."

I'm totally at that point.

Moron.

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