What Is Your Top Priority

What should the top priority of our government be?

  • Tax / welfare reform

    Votes: 37 31.9%

  • Immigration reform

    Votes: 43 37.1%

  • Healthcare reform

    Votes: 8 6.9%

  • Foreign policy

    Votes: 4 3.4%

  • Homeland security

    Votes: 24 20.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 15 12.9%
  • Total voters
    116
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Curious to see what everyone thinks should be the top priority of our government. Since I assume the second amrndment would be a run away winner, I know it would be with me, I'll leave it out as an option. So what would be number one assuming the second is taken care of????
 
I went with immigration reform. If left unchecked, immigration, legal and illegal, will result in the downfall of our country. Witness the recent events in France for a glimpse of what awaits us.
Biker
 
I thought about checking "homeland Security" then thought how that phrase has been used as the excuse for every evil, corrupt act since 9/11/01.

The federal Government should protect the country from foreign invaders and deliver the mail in an expeditious manner at a reasonable cost, as well as have a supreme court of appeals where issues are decided based on whether or not actions were in compliance with the Constitution. State Government should protect me from the federal Government in all areas except those noted above. I guess they should also run the prisons, but I'm biased because I have a job in that system. Local Government should provide me with safe and potable water, a means of disposing of my trash & garbage that does not cause disease or horrendous odors to spread, and make sure that the stuff I flush is rendered safe before putting it back into the waters.

In case anyone thinks I am not considering the full implications of those thoughts, remember that there will be plenty of positions in the toxic waste cleanup field for all the politicians and bureaucrats that are out of work in my new world.

stay safe.

skidmark
 
Homeland Security would include immigration control, so I chose Homeland Security. That is a top priority.

The same government that currently control's Iraq's borders (United States) should be able to control its own back home. Why can't the Coast Guard control our borders? It controls the coasts doesn't it? Why can't the Border Patrol control our borders? It controls the borders doesn't it?

If it means a fence north and south, then let's start building! In the short term, erect a mine field on both borders and be done with it. Controlling our borders is homeland security. Let's do it.
 
define: reform-putting polish on an old pair of boots

Operating under the age old principle that in the void of federal government intervention progress will not happen, reform is needed. In light of the federal government's inability to do much well (outside of certain enumerated powers), and certainly unable to compete with the States or private sector, we don't need reform. Reform is like polishing old boots, they're still the same old boots, in a couple days it wears off and well, it's the same old pair of boots.

Reform brings about more of the same, sometimes the same usually a little worse.

If there's something that I feel needs to be axed, it's Homeland Security. That horse has been beat, whipped, flayed and burned already.
 
The government should focus on leaving me alone.

Toward that end we should focus on abolishing as much of the government as we can and leaving no brick on top of another brick and selling them to the highest bidder. Federal bureaucrats will be made Border Guards or made to walk highways and pick up trash.
 
Taxation Reform.

This country was founded on the right to life, liberty and property. They are the essentials and you truly cannot have one without the other.

Immigration Reform, so-called "Homeland Security", Healthcare Reform are all modern conceits.

But taxation goes to the heart of the matter. It's the fulcrum around which the Revolution turned.

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Biker said:
I went with immigration reform. If left unchecked, immigration, legal and illegal, will result in the downfall of our country. Witness the recent events in France for a glimpse of what awaits us.
Biker
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Biker - With an estimated 11-12M illegals in the country, the cat is out of the bag on this one, unless reform includes exporting those here illegally - and I think we know that isn't going to happen. I went with fiscal responsibility, these deficits have the potential of taking a bite out of my kids future.
 
True enough Rick, but I believe that immigration is directly tied to fiscal responsibility (amazing how much these illegal critters cost us in so many ways) *and* homeland security. In any case, you're right-nothing will be done to deport those already here except for the possibility, as has already been mentioned, that this admin will grant them amnesty. Kinda like ridding the country of burglars by legalizing burglary.
Biker
 
I went with "other".

Federal: Protect the borders, build highways
State: Build roads
Local: Build schools, hire police/firefighters/EMT's

-PB
 
Two things: First off, the voting population at large has decided it wants government to be Big Nanny, and we're pretty much stuck with it. Sorta following as a result of that, things have gone downhill to the point where "All of the above" is no longer even optional within the Big Nanny context.

Howsomever, I go along with Marko and ZenMasterJG--had they gone that way about the time I was born.

Art
 
Tax reform - which goes hand in hand with spending reform.

Everything else - and I mean EVERYTHING else - is a smokescreen, a cover, to divert our attention from just how much of our hard-earned money is being plundered to grow a government far beyond the worst nightmares of the authors of our Constitution.
 
My top priority is to change the nature of government. The current one is out of control, far removed from original intent. I would rather not have the current one dig a deeper hole by embarking on some other grandiose priority.
 
HankB said:
Tax reform - which goes hand in hand with spending reform.

Everything else - and I mean EVERYTHING else - is a smokescreen, a cover, to divert our attention from just how much of our hard-earned money is being plundered to grow a government far beyond the worst nightmares of the authors of our Constitution.
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I agree, abolish income tax and have a sales tax, that way everyone pays. sure makes illegal immigration more palatable when I know they're paying their share as well.
 
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