Can You Fix the Big Problems?

[squeezewax]

There are a number of problems in the world that just go on and on without ever being sorted out properly.
Are there any that you know the answers to? Any which you cannot believe they haven't tried the very things that you believe would put an end to the dispute?
Any that have solutions that are so obvious to you?

 

[ripskater]

I can't fix any societal problem myself. That's up to us all as individuals. But I do know this:

Fix parenting and strengthen families and you will fix society.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Poverty can easily be eliminated in the U.S. The solution would be to give people below the poverty line more money.

 

[Lustercross]

That money needs to come from higher taxes to the rich so it can be used for free college and universal healthcare. Like that the poor have a path to get out of poverty.

 

[ripskater]

Government is not the answer to our problems. It typically creates more problems. I do know that.

 

[ultraninjastar]

Hide poor peoples food stamps in their work boots. Just kidding. Get rid of money.

 

[Lustercross]

Government is not the answer to our problems. It typically creates more problems. I do know that.

Ronald Reagan gave us less government and that's when our middle class started dissapearing. I see that as a major problem. But of course, your going to keep blabbing about random things with no substance.

 

[ultraninjastar]

If you get rid of money, people will volunteer to do the necessary jobs robots cant do, like get women pregnant. Robots can make all of our clothes and produce our food. We should consume less red meat. We don't need personal vehicles if we don't have to drive to work everyday to earn money. There will be enough food to go around for everyone. No cost just like the air we breathe. People that do actual work will be rewarded. Or maybe everyone can work a week out of the year in shifts. Or robots could do all the work.

 

[Metusalemi]

Poverty can easily be eliminated in the U.S. The solution would be to give people below the poverty line more money.

Or to execute everyone below the poverty line.

 

[Clippy]

I'm still trying to fix my newly purchased house, I still need insulation in some rooms let alone try to fix EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE MY HOUSE!!!

 

[ultraninjastar]

Ronald Reagan gave us less government and that's when our middle class started dissapearing. I see that as a major problem. But of course, your going to keep blabbing about random things with no substance.

mostly because federal spending had risen relentlessly for three decades both absolutely and relative to the nation’s wealth. Had that trend continued, the federal government would have grown relative to national income by about 25 percent (from one-fifth of GDP to one-fourth). Instead of increasing, the relative size of government stayed roughly the same as it had been in the 1970s. Reagan thus shrank the size of government compared to what it would have been if past trends had continued.

You need to recheck your history or risk sounding random with no substance. Or maybe you would like the Federal Government to take in 1/4 of our GDP?

 

[SammyPops]

I believe a fat tax would solve a problem or two

 

[ultraninjastar]

The middle class went to prison as part of the drug war. And if they did not go themselves, their tax dollars did. Less Government did not do that. You can believe what ever version of history you want though.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Or to execute everyone below the poverty line.

That actually wouldn't eliminate poverty. When we're talking about pre-transfer poverty, the vast majority are kids, old people, the disabled, unpaid caretakers, and temporarily unemployed people (and note that we deliberately target around 5% unemployment in order to keep inflation in check). As long as we have a market-based income distribution system, people in those groups will be very vulnerable to poverty. If we just proactively target them with non-means-tested cash distributions (like we do with seniors--lowering elderly poverty from 45% pre-transfer to 9% post-transfer), we can easily eliminate the problem without busting the budget. We can also pretty much eliminate unemployment without busting the budget.

I will grant that if we kill kids as soon as they're born, we could eliminate all social problems fairly soon.

 

[Patrick Jane]

Cannibalism could solve both overpopulation and famine.

 

[LucasWithLidOff]

The biggest problem in first world countries today is that we have become bottom heavy with losers that have absolutely no productive value. Obviously the solution to this problem is to let nature take its course and weed them out, but that raises ethical and moral problems.

So while we shouldn't let them starve, we certainly shouldn't allow them say in political discussions nor should we subsidize their births. You need welfare for more than 2 years, you get your tubes tied.

 

[TheLuckiest]

One problem that I've personally started working on in my own life is food waste.

If the United states reduced their food waste, we could easily solve the hunger problem in America, which by recent stats, about 1 in 7 American's experience food uncertainty in the United States. Not necessarily starving, but they have to skip meals at times. We (United States) waste on average about 25% of food, or 20lbs a month per person. It is crazy to think that. If we merely cut that in half and had the right avenues to distribute it, hunger in the U.S. would be solved within a few weeks.

I've started going to the grocery store every other day just buying a few meals at a time so I don't waste as much food. Also donating 1 dollar a month to organizations like Feeding America or donating that few lbs of food you would have wasted to a local food bank, you can appreciate the impact immediately in your community unlike donating to money for hunger struggles overseas.

 

[Sabin]

More integration of churches would improve race relations.

 

[Leklok]

Two main things:
1. With all the starving people in the world, people shouldnt be allowed to amass wealth of more than $10 million. Ito just sickening greed to be so rich while countless people are hungry everyday.

2. Return ancestral lands to indigenous populations. This will resolve many conflicts and bring peace to many warring countries. Non-indigenous people can stay but must abide by indigenous law or return to their place of origin.

 

[ripskater]

More integration of churches would improve race relations.

I agree, the Christian Church is probably the only vehicle to heal race relations in this country.