Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What is your most important political issue?

Comments

[mousie.livejournal.com]

thats like asking for a drop in the ocean..

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

But each drop can be so different from the last!

[red-bull.livejournal.com]

lets try that blue touch paper again *mischevious*

Have women made good use of the vote since they won voting rights?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LOL!

We need to keep you away from the matches bro ;)

**sits back to watch**

[kabandra.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty big on gay rights and abortion... against domestic violence.

Otherwise, you could probably argue with me successfully in favor or opposition to many other areas of policy and economy..

Oh, education is a big thing too. It all begins with education, very important.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Healthcare?

[electricsoupie.livejournal.com]

protecting the environment/animals.

We only get one planet, we need to treat it better.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Where do you start?

[electricsoupie.livejournal.com]

anywhere and everywhere. It doesn't matter where or what the change is, just that it occurs.

[delphaicdragon.livejournal.com]

The right to be left the hell alone. ;)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

The impeachment of Bush, the withdrawl of troops in Iraq, an a genuine concerted effort to have the the middle east in general not hate Americans.

[f-l-i-r-t.livejournal.com]

I will agree with all those points...!!!!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

All good issues :)

[mysticpickle.livejournal.com]

To see Bush gone. After that I might be able to specify a little more but while he is in office every specific issue I have begins with him so it seams easier to sum it up this way. ;)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

GBLT rights and stem cell research (for).

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

With you on those bro :D

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

Big Pharma being held accountable for its actions.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Definitely!

[voldelange.livejournal.com]

i don't like political stuffs...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

And that's good too :)

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

renewable sources of energy to end dependence on foreign oil. that way we can stop randomly killing brown people.

also, oil companies need to be held accountable for the price gouging that's been going on since they decided to be afraid of said brown people. it's ridiculous that people don't see it as some sort of crime that the price of gas has tripled in less than a decade. why aren't the oil companies being coerced into adapting like the rest of the world, anyway? they're still depending on a finite resource, rather than growing as companies and preparing for the future.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

I guess that depends what you define as important. The one big political hobby-horse that I do get really worked up over is abortion, but I just don't discuss the subject with people any more because it makes me depressed and just generates useless drama. I don't like being angry or making other people angry, especially when it doesn't do any good, anyway. So it's not the issue that I talk about most, by a long shot, just the one that I care the most about.

I probably talk the most about gun-owners rights or energy bureaucracy because I'm Californian and my state has a long and glorious history of mishandling those issues.

The real political issue that everyone should be worried about is how long it will take me to train enough penguins for my global take-over army.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I'll need a penguin suit... :)

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Guns.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Why?

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Because so many people are blinded by the media's anti-gun campaign. Guns are not responsible for the deaths of so many people, people are responsible. When some nut-job cracks and goes walking through a bussiness with a AK-47 the media is all over it, focusing on the weapons and encouraging the ban of all guns. Does it ever occur to people that these weapons are already illigal? Or that guns in the hands of criminals mean that legal gun owners should give up their rights? When a crime is committed with a gun, it's committed by criminals, and criminals are notorious for not following the Law. Dur. And then to say that less police officers should be carrying guns... Unbelievable! Only a coward or a criminal would want there to be less good guys armed. What about that guy that went into a business with a double barreled shotgun? He was caught on tape walking slowly from hiding person to hiding person, talking with his victims while he slowly reloaded. He clearly fired both barrels with the first shot. It's a double-barreled shotgun! Anyone could have stopped him right then, with a gun, or with a chair or a telephone or a fist in the face. Has the entire human race become either cowards or madmen? And compared to the hundreds of rounds of ammo fired in crimes a year, three trillion bullets are fired in gun ranges, safely and without malicious intent. The media lies and decieves. Their statistic that 36% of guns are used to kill someone the gun owner knows? They never mention how they got that statistic. Crack heads shooting dealers, dealers shooting druggies, gang bangers killing gang bangers. People who cannot, legally, own a gun.

Guns are dangerous, yes. But so is a spud-pealer if someone wishes to make it so. Guns can be fun, they can be masterful works of art, they can be tools for survival (food gathering or self-defense), but when a gun is used in a crime, it is not the gun's fault. It is the criminals. Stricter gun laws? We already have strict gun laws. You cannot own a firearm unless you pass a rigorous background check, and in some places, a test (I think their should be a test everywhere, like driving). Criminals are not allowed to legally purchase firearms. Certain ones can not be purchased legally at all. Make it so no firearms can be bought by citizens and you will have no Law abiding, safe gun owners with guns, you will still have the criminals with them, though.
And the next time some reporter calls a 9mm an "assualt pistol" I'll shit myself. The damn thing is better then a dry stick for self defense, but not by much.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Damn! I'm impressed!

:D

A very lucid argument, my friend :)

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Probably my biggest political standpoint. I'd elect Satan for president if he understood those thoughts.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Basically I am trying to say that we don't need any more laws against guns, we need more decent people enforcing them.

[markbuster.livejournal.com]

Halting the return of the Dark Ages, when religion and fear ruled.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Well put :)

[dazia.livejournal.com]

GLBT Parenting/Marriage rights (Pro), Abortion (Pro Choice) and the fact that America is not actually a true democracy.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Very powerful platforms :D

[soulview.livejournal.com]

We have laws to keep our kids in school. So they can get a good education and have a strong purpose/goal for their future.

But, we (generalizing here) allow them also to have abortions, AND have babies, smoke and drink at a young age (even though it is illegal we say it's ok as long as it's at home in front of us), dress like hookers etc.

I guess having a daughter brings up all kinds of issues inside my head. :)

Errr those might not be political issues, but they should still be important for those in office who govern our country.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

They are important issues... Definitely...

[mjtheanarchist.livejournal.com]

The system, man!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Yep, the system is the problem!