Recent Solutions To Our Problems
About
How to unfix politics?
S2oP started as two friends, meeting for lunch, shooting the breeze, and talking about the world. Our conversations would naturally gravitate to one of these fundamental issues in our country, and over the course of a nice meal, with a bunch of argu… sharing of opinions, we would come to a basic solution that both sides could agree on as a realistic starting place from which to move forward on the issue. We would go back to our jobs, until we could grab another bite together. After half a dozen such episodes, we started pulling in other opinions and research, realizing that it didn’t do any good to solve America's problems if we didn’t tell anybody. Hence, this website.It ultimately doesn’t matter who we are. It’s not about us. We’re just sick of the fussing and fighting. It is safe to say that we have thought about these issues a lot. We bet that you have, too.
Budget
The Left Says
Deficits are OK if they come from ensuring necessary services like healthcare & education, because those are vital to the health of our nation.
The Right Says
Deficits are OK if they come from tax breaks for the job-producers, because that stimulates the economy.
The Solution
Deficits are not OK. I can’t spend money that I don’t have, and the government shouldn’t, either. Scrap the entire, corrupt, process of authorizations and appropriations. Scrap the involuted notion of private banks owning the central bank that fabricates money and then charges us to loan it to the government1. Instead, take all of the expenditures from this year and figure the percent of the total for each (by department). Next year’s budget is just that percentage of this year’s revenue. Each department is also mandated to build an emergency fund equal to 100% of their annual costs. To incentivize cost-savings, peg bonuses to those departments that get their emergency funds built the quickest. If the Navy wants a new aircraft carrier, they might have to save up for a year or two, then pay for it in cash. If congress wants to increase funding in one area, they have to reduce it in another by the same percentage. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are separate funds, not part of the overall Federal budget; they are separate taxes, going to separate buckets (see Social Security). Government borrowing (or deficit spending) would be eliminated 2.
Climate
The Left Says
Human-caused climate change is real and catastrophic. Every effort should be made to curb greenhouse gas emissions, and reverse the warming of the planet.
The Right Says
The amount of greenhouse gasses that humans have added to the atmosphere since the industrial revolution pales in comparison to what volcanoes have done many times in the past. The earth will deal with it like it always does. There is no reason to stifle economic development by imposing artificial and unnecessarily expensive restrictions.