Please answer this question on the following important issues:\n\nEconomy, Military, Welfare Dependency, Raising Minimum Wage, Healthcare, Foreign Policy, Term Limits, Ideals and Values that can be seen as examples by other countries across the world.
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i belong to neither, but all the political parties are important, that what keeps america free...
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I can think of several things that may qualify, but upon closer examination I find evidence lacking for all of them.  Not counting some local or minor issue that may have been discussed in your class, consider Iraq?\n\nNo, we are not a colonial power exploiting another people.  Further, the people of Iraq are not culturally related to us, like we were to the British.  So bag that idea.\n\nWhat else? Elections?  Change of focus of power from Republican to Democrat?  No, there were no parties in Colonial America.  Not like we have them today.\n\nSorry I can't be more helpful.  Perhaps, Like I said, the question may be related to some topic covered in class that is not "general knowledge."  \n\nLots of teachers have their own agenda and even more ask questions that only make sense to them.  Some make a career out of making the obvious, obscure.
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great human philosophy..leave every problem behind the borders and then the problem doesn't exist anymore. when is this world gonna realise that we have global issues, and we all need to deal with them??\n\n(a dutch guy living in romania)
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Sounds like every problem of every country,and there are no answers without greed and malaise being removed .why bother with the whole problem when even a small portion cannot be made better.world law on matters of decency is a option,but years away.
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How about this!! The recent mid-term elections were covered quite differently both across the country and around the world. Some European papers down played the election as ho-hum; while other played it as a near overthrowing of the United States. This should give you something to work with.
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I believe what you call hot topics are real issues.  If I'm not able to agree with a politician on moral issues...then there is no way I am voting for him/her.  War and money are important issues, but I believe ending the murder of innocent humans, and preserving the family are extremely important issues as well.
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Gay marriage should be one of the top issues because this is a country based on equal rights for all. \n\nEvery cause that we, as a nation, fight for becomes tainted when our great nation is discriminating against a specific group of ppl because their value system does not agree with the majority.
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major challenge:\nethnic, national and religious distrust of:\n- each other.\n- a global government.\n\nmajor opportunity:\neveryone lives in harmony and sings kum bah ya. :)
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Better education - education that focuses not on how well you do on a standardized test, but in thinking and reasoning through a problem you are presented with.  Education should also include a firm grounding in other cultures and on a variety of religions in order to counter the insularity and intolerance that has led to the current international situation.  We've got a lot to be proud of and our own unique heritage, but we've also got a superiority complex that isn't entirely deserved and which leads to a lot of conflict.\n\nBetter health care - I know that a lot of people think that it's socialism to provide universal health care, but if you think about it, who's benefiting by the current system?  Hospitals are going bankrupt because poor people can't pay thousands in medical bills.  People are dying or needing expensive long-term care for conditions easily treatable in their early stages - but that were not detected because the patients had no insurance and therefore could not get the checkups that could have saved their lives.  Their families are going bankrupt trying to pay for the medical care to save their lives.  Businesses are losing millions because of workers who are either missing or working sick.  The only ones making money are the pharmaceutical companies, and they're making a killing while taking us for all we're worth and then some.\n\nHigher minimum wage.  A person who works hard for 40 hours a week should not have to be on welfare to feed their family, and should be able to take their children to the doctor for their school shots without having to wonder how they're going to pay for food for the next week.\n\nThat's just the top three.  But take care of those, and you've taken care of a whole lot of the problems that are plaguing our country.
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About my own country?  I love it here but there are some problems:\n\n1. Terrible education for kids\n2. Crime\n3. Gas prices, shoot, prices of anything!\n4. It's great we help people in other countries, but\n   I think we need to help our own for a while.  We\n   have many homeless people, families with children\n   included, who desperately need our help.  Cutting\n   back on too many things that would help these people\n   and spending more on other countries doesn't make for\n   happy, patriotic citizens.\n5. Elderly people who can't afford their medicine.\n6. Healthcare, and I don't think the goverment should\n   pay for it, but I do think employers, who are driving\n   around in flippin' Cadillac SUV's should give a little\n   to their employees who make it possible for them to buy\n   their toys.\n\n7.  On a positive note:\n\n    Grateful to all those who do try to change anything that would help our country in any way.
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Globalization affects the periphery countries very negatively. With things like structural adjustment programs forcing third world gov. to give up their soverignty there is very little a country can do to try and find there own sustainable way to grow their country. Since these countries are often exploited through investment and the labor practices of transnationals it shouldnt suprise anyone that discontent and instability is often a third world problem.
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This is my favorite type of question, so I'll answer with another question.  Why do we send billions overseas to help other countries when we have so many problems at home?  The real answer to this and many other questions like it is that we as a society let "our" elected officals make choices for us, that's why we are a Republic.  I wish we could have some kind of utopian country where we're a true democracy and the people voted on a budget that is proposed to them by their elected officals.  However it could never happen, we can even agree on Coke or Pepsi.
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Anglo American World Poverty Eradication Programmee\n\n"World poverty is ancient, yet the hope of real progress against poverty is new. Vast regions and nations from Chile to Thailand are escaping the bonds of poverty and oppression by embracing markets and trade and new technologies. What some call globalization is, in fact, the triumph of human liberty stretching across national borders. And it holds the promise of delivering billions of the world's citizens from disease and hunger and want. This is a great and noble prospect, that freedom can work not just in the new world or the old world, but in all the world."\n\nPresident George W. Bush remarks to the World Bank. Washington, D.C. July 17, 2001.
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do a paper on people who have influenced the world in whatever fashion (good or bad) in the last 100 years such as: Nelson Mendela, Mahatma Ghandi, Sigmund Freud, Martin Luther King, Albert Einsten, Hitler, Bill Clinton, Rasputin (so interesting). \ngood luck
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It's best to look at it country by country.  Some countries like South Africa are doing a lot of education.  Others are denying it's a problem and not doing anything.  I'd grab a few countries and look on Google for each one.
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This question........I could answer so many ways.....but I will just pick one facet.\n\nI think a democracy with bits of socialism would work very well....just as a previous poster noted with some of the Scandinavian countries. \n\nI think one main issue, if not THE issue is economics.\n\nI'll even break it down....I think we need democracy with a collective revenue sharing.  Those familiar with major sports leagues in the US, specifically the NFL, may know what I'm speaking of.\n\nBetter distribution of funds across the board would help our economic bottomline, especially if the excess money given to the "lower classes" are used specifically for encouragement of small business, health care, better schools and teachers, upkeep in neighborhoods, and find ways to not only fight the drug trade inside of neighborhoods, but also (and more important) stop them from ever reaching these at-risk neighborhoods.\n\nIt would help encourage people that moving up in the world, doesn't mean you need to hit that home run.  For parents to know they have quality backing and support, even kids from the lower class have a good chance at life, that means a lot.\n\nNow the rich would suffer a bit....because in the revenue sharing concept, the top teams are penalized for being over the cap line.  With this you would not have a person whose bank account looks like the gross national product of small countries, i.e. Bill Gates.  They would still be wealthy, but not to the detriment of the lower class.\n\nSo.....you would have a top line and a bottom line....but you would maintain all of the other capitalist prinicples, you find in democracy.  There are so many things that go to this, I won't even pretend my idea is foolproof.....but I do think it would help.
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You could always use the War currently going on as an example of the immoratily. It seems like the simplest example and yet the greatest if you ask my personal opinion. I'd suggest this since it is such a hot topic, and should be pretty easy.\nMortality... serving the country, the way the government has worked before where it was very patriotic and "rightfully" serving. Et cetera, et cetera.