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nisie.livejournal.com) wrote in therightfangirl2009-01-30 06:38 pm
Political meme
I thought this would be a fun exercise as clearly there are people on my friend's list who have different opinions on different issues in the political world. Taking a cue from http://www.ontheissues.org/, take five or more of these issues and list your opinions:
Foreign Policy
Homeland Security
War & Peace
Free Trade
Immigration
Energy & Oil
Gun Control
Crime
Drugs
Civil Rights
Jobs
Environment
Budget & Economy
Government Reform
Tax Reform
Social Security
Welfare & Poverty
Technology
Education
Health Care
Abortion
Families & Children
Corporations
Principles & Values
I support every attempt to strengthen the 10th admendment.
Immigration:
We must tighten our borders to prevent illegal immigrants easy access to this country. We need to increase our quotas to allow more people to come in legally.
We need to allow employers to hire people perform jobs that they find it difficult to fill. However, employers must first demonstrate that A- there is a labor shortage in their specific labor market by attempting to recruite US residents and citizens using a minimum of three media sources for a period of 3 months. B- employers will be required to contact DFACs, Vocational Rehabilitation agencies, and correction agencies to fill these openings, C- Employers will be responsible for the recruitment of noncitizens only in their home countries and will bare the resposability of providing transportation to and from the nation of residence. If an noncitizen does not return freely, then the employer is required to inform law inforcement.
Energy and Oil
America needs to become more self-sufficiant in how they obtain oil, gas, and other energy resources. To achieve this goal, a taffic of 15% should be placed on oil and other energy products not obtained in this country. These funds will be spent on increasing energy independance.
Domestic Issues:
Gun Control
Every US citizen has the right to obtain fire arms suitable for self-defence and hunting. Gross stupidity or criminal actions will remove this right. Mental health issues may affect this right as well. Nature of weapons can be left open to debate.
Crime
The standard for capital punishment convictions must be very high.
Would support pay raises for cops to bring their salary to the medium wage of the community that they live in.
Drugs
I would support the legalization of all drugs because of my time working in the prision system. This support will only be given if an extremely high tax rate was placed on drugs.
Civil Rights
Affirmitive Action is an expression of racism. However, due to the quite racism of many, something is needed. Therefore, I would support allowing all those who pass a national test and maintain grades of a 2.5 or better 12 semesters of the pell grant to obtain a higher education be it at a college or a tech school. Provide grants to for small businesses. Fund students on a mixture of per student and income raised in the school district so that innercity schools aren't so SOL on funding. Promote actions that allow people of all races to excel. To me, the issues boils down to classism- people raise their children to be equals or rise above their social status.
People who do not obtain the score to benefit from college education are allowed to repeat the testing three times a year thoughout their life span. Job training in the terms of tech school or on the job training can be offered as well.
Environment:
I believe that there is a difference in opinion on global warming, however, the earth is a gift from God that we are trashing. Therefore, I would favor policies that attempt to create substanability. I favor the encouragement of organic foods, small farms, and clean water.
Budget & Economy:
Sadly, in order to preserve this great nation, we need to cut by 10-20% all social services until such time as the debt is repaid.
Tax Reform
I support the Fair Tax as a way to limit governmental power and to stimulate the economy. Failing this, I support a flat tax.
Welfare & Poverty
Welfare has only increased the numbers who need it. I support a more aggressive screening of all people on welfare for disability and drug dependance. Those with disabilities will be referred to vocational rehabilitation to attempt to find a job. Those with drug dependance/addiction will be offered counseling. All people on welfare will be offered job training/If after three years, a person is not off of welfare, their benefits will be decreased by 50% for each year that they remain on welfare, assuming that the job rate in their community is below 6%. If it is above 6%, then the cut will be 25% and relocation services can be discussed.
Education
I do not support no child left behind nor any other system that enforces teaching to the test. I support a system where in the money falls the child to whatever form of education that the parents deems best for their child. I support transportation assistance to help a child attend a successful school.
Health Care
Government can provide assistance in purchasing insurance and mandate that all citizens become insured.
Abortion
I support non-embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell research from the existing lines may continue though. More funding for adult stem-cell research. Allow states to have full say in abortion as it is not the federal government's business as long as reasonable standards for endangering the health of the mother are observed. (I know a woman who nearly died of toxima in the 50s in her 15th week of pregancy. It took 3 hours to find 7 ob/gyns to sign that an abortion was required to save the life of the mother.)
Families & Children
School systems must report all times that a student is not in class as can be done in some states with students undergoing substance abuse counseling and abortion. Parents have the rights to make all medical decision for their children unless that child is able to utlize the judicial system.
Principles & Values
America has always been a multicultural country and this needs to be honored. While Christianity is the majority religion, they must show that they accept other people's right to their religions. However, I don't believe it is possible to seperate religion from government as ethics and religion are closely aligned, and goverment attempts to enforce a standard of ethics through its laws.
Foreign Policy
Homeland Security
War & Peace
Free Trade
Immigration
Energy & Oil
Gun Control
Crime
Drugs
Civil Rights
Jobs
Environment
Budget & Economy
Government Reform
Tax Reform
Social Security
Welfare & Poverty
Technology
Education
Health Care
Abortion
Families & Children
Corporations
Principles & Values
I support every attempt to strengthen the 10th admendment.
Immigration:
We must tighten our borders to prevent illegal immigrants easy access to this country. We need to increase our quotas to allow more people to come in legally.
We need to allow employers to hire people perform jobs that they find it difficult to fill. However, employers must first demonstrate that A- there is a labor shortage in their specific labor market by attempting to recruite US residents and citizens using a minimum of three media sources for a period of 3 months. B- employers will be required to contact DFACs, Vocational Rehabilitation agencies, and correction agencies to fill these openings, C- Employers will be responsible for the recruitment of noncitizens only in their home countries and will bare the resposability of providing transportation to and from the nation of residence. If an noncitizen does not return freely, then the employer is required to inform law inforcement.
Energy and Oil
America needs to become more self-sufficiant in how they obtain oil, gas, and other energy resources. To achieve this goal, a taffic of 15% should be placed on oil and other energy products not obtained in this country. These funds will be spent on increasing energy independance.
Domestic Issues:
Gun Control
Every US citizen has the right to obtain fire arms suitable for self-defence and hunting. Gross stupidity or criminal actions will remove this right. Mental health issues may affect this right as well. Nature of weapons can be left open to debate.
Crime
The standard for capital punishment convictions must be very high.
Would support pay raises for cops to bring their salary to the medium wage of the community that they live in.
Drugs
I would support the legalization of all drugs because of my time working in the prision system. This support will only be given if an extremely high tax rate was placed on drugs.
Civil Rights
Affirmitive Action is an expression of racism. However, due to the quite racism of many, something is needed. Therefore, I would support allowing all those who pass a national test and maintain grades of a 2.5 or better 12 semesters of the pell grant to obtain a higher education be it at a college or a tech school. Provide grants to for small businesses. Fund students on a mixture of per student and income raised in the school district so that innercity schools aren't so SOL on funding. Promote actions that allow people of all races to excel. To me, the issues boils down to classism- people raise their children to be equals or rise above their social status.
People who do not obtain the score to benefit from college education are allowed to repeat the testing three times a year thoughout their life span. Job training in the terms of tech school or on the job training can be offered as well.
Environment:
I believe that there is a difference in opinion on global warming, however, the earth is a gift from God that we are trashing. Therefore, I would favor policies that attempt to create substanability. I favor the encouragement of organic foods, small farms, and clean water.
Budget & Economy:
Sadly, in order to preserve this great nation, we need to cut by 10-20% all social services until such time as the debt is repaid.
Tax Reform
I support the Fair Tax as a way to limit governmental power and to stimulate the economy. Failing this, I support a flat tax.
Welfare & Poverty
Welfare has only increased the numbers who need it. I support a more aggressive screening of all people on welfare for disability and drug dependance. Those with disabilities will be referred to vocational rehabilitation to attempt to find a job. Those with drug dependance/addiction will be offered counseling. All people on welfare will be offered job training/If after three years, a person is not off of welfare, their benefits will be decreased by 50% for each year that they remain on welfare, assuming that the job rate in their community is below 6%. If it is above 6%, then the cut will be 25% and relocation services can be discussed.
Education
I do not support no child left behind nor any other system that enforces teaching to the test. I support a system where in the money falls the child to whatever form of education that the parents deems best for their child. I support transportation assistance to help a child attend a successful school.
Health Care
Government can provide assistance in purchasing insurance and mandate that all citizens become insured.
Abortion
I support non-embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell research from the existing lines may continue though. More funding for adult stem-cell research. Allow states to have full say in abortion as it is not the federal government's business as long as reasonable standards for endangering the health of the mother are observed. (I know a woman who nearly died of toxima in the 50s in her 15th week of pregancy. It took 3 hours to find 7 ob/gyns to sign that an abortion was required to save the life of the mother.)
Families & Children
School systems must report all times that a student is not in class as can be done in some states with students undergoing substance abuse counseling and abortion. Parents have the rights to make all medical decision for their children unless that child is able to utlize the judicial system.
Principles & Values
America has always been a multicultural country and this needs to be honored. While Christianity is the majority religion, they must show that they accept other people's right to their religions. However, I don't believe it is possible to seperate religion from government as ethics and religion are closely aligned, and goverment attempts to enforce a standard of ethics through its laws.
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The company I worked for as an HR Administrator already did this. We had a location in Mexico and one of the engineers was good enough that the head peeps wanted to bring him to our plant in TN. It was an internal promotion to a new location that was growing quickly. We had to post at least 3 different sources (local newspaper, Monster, and a recruitment company), and we had to provide proof of advertising. We had to keep track of anyone who applied for the position, and interview anyone who came close to qualified for the position. This had to be done each time we hit another stage of Fernando's immigration process.
I would, however, be cautious with people with felony convictions. Our policy was not to hire anyone convicted of a felony within the previous 7 years. Misdemenors weren't an issue. There's nothing like your third party reference service discovering that an applicant lied on his application form when he said no convictions. Lying to a prospective employer is NOT the way to go. We used to take folks for temporary positions, but didn't do a background check on them until they accepted a firm job offer from us. Well, we had three guys that were decent enough to want to hire. Turns out all 3 had felonies. Turns out all 3 were behind a series of rather major equipment thefts that lost the company a lot of money.
I'd rather work with a program that has a proven record of rehabilitating offenders than just have any convicted Tom, Dick or Harry apply for a job straight out of prison and get it. Research has shown that folks who go through these programs have a lower rate of committing additional crime.
Just my nickel's opinion :)
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Education:
Homeschooling should be encouraged, deregulated, and given a tax benefit, as should privately schooled and tutored children. My child has no involvement with the public education system; I not only have the tax burden of paying for his "spot" in our public education system, but also the burden of having to pay for his actual education. I support aggressive restructuring of the educational bureaucracy. The federal department of education should be totally disbanded and individual states should be in charge of deciding their educational directives. In no way do I support expansion of early childhood education (i.e., free babysitting for toddlers), or lowering of the mandatory school age, or standards-based testing. I support greater accountability for the parents, more flexible attendance options (i.e., programs where the child goes to school 2 days a week and does work at home 3 days a week) and other innovative measures to lessen the burden of our public school system. I support fiscal incentives to schools who develop innovative ways to increase performance and general school satisfaction rates at a lower cost.
Abortion
Ideally, people would not think this was a real option in the same way that people don't think killing your already-born kids off because you decide you aren't ready to be a parent after all/ they aren't convenient to your lifestyle/ they're an unpleasant reminder of their dad/ etc. However, hearts and minds on this issue aren't changed through laws or forcibly, just through awareness, and I also acknowledge that some factions of the anti-abortion movement seek to limit abortion as a proxy measure to limit women's enfranchisement. I also acknowledge that there are legitimate medical reasons for abortion in some cases. I don't morally support abortion for any reason except to save the life of the mother, and I support allowing access to fair and equal abortion education/awareness organizations to speak in the public schools (to balance state sex ed programs, which casually mention it as a "termination of pregnancy" and medicalize it as an ordinary surgical procedure without exploring the moral and emotional implications) but I do think it should not be criminalized, because I think that will lead to a lot of unnecessary tragedy. Additional unnecessary tragedy, besides the current abortion rate, that is. It would also further increase the burden of our judicial system and ruin a lot of lives, when again, simple education and awareness would help in many situations.
Taxes
I fully support Ron Paul's tax plan (http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/11/09/defending-ron-pauls-tax-plan/), which includes abolishing the income tax and slashing tax revenue to the levels closer to the founding fathers' vision. I believe the tax system needs overhaul from the ground up, not piecemeal, patchwork reform.
Families and Children
I support tax breaks for families who adopt children; greater tax breaks for families who adopt children with disabilities or chronic illnesses, and even greater tax breaks for families who adopt American-born children. I do not support no-fault divorce. I also support tax breaks for families who have a child within the fiscal year. We need greater numbers of kids to support our nation's elderly in the future.
Civil Rights
I do not support affirmative action of any kind, though I respect each individual school/ school system's efforts toward greater inclusion and celebrating cultural diversity through curriculum and environment.
I believe marriage needs to be fully abolished as a legal institution and kept as a religious/social institution, into which the inclusion of different kinds of couples would be left up to the individual institution/ church/ etc. I support civil unions for all couples as a baseline for access to shared housing, legal, contractual, health and insurance benefits.