what you believe to be the 3 biggest problems facing metropolitan areas today.?
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Urban spral - solution is to create more green space and increase public transportation\n\nEducation - increase funding to public eduacation\n\nHealth Care - develop a plan to address the large numbers of retirees that will be coming.  This includeds plans to find more RNs and eleder care doctors, some sort of medication support, and developing some sort of preventive health care, starting at 55 or 60.
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The southwest, Florida, and New York is where it is the oldest problem, but illegals are now moving toward the midwest and other areas. I read in the L.A times about a Mexican family who moved to TN because the wages and living conditions were now so poor. They said it was "too much like Mexico." They also said other Mexican workers drive down the wages, and it was much easier to send more money home to the family because the wages in Tennessee were so much higher than what they were used to. I can personally attest to wages being lower in the southwest. I've noticed that jobs in my area of Texas(on the border, no less) pay less than half what they did in my midwest hometown. And yet, the taxes for these people, who make very little are twice as high. Not to mention what these people are paying for medical care.It's insane.
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What other problems?...\n\nThe fact that we spend billions of dollars in foreign-aid while America is rotting morally and fighting among ourselves within our own borders?\n\nThe fact that the government has not clamped down on companies and businesses outsourcing their goods and jobs overseas?\n\nThe fact that we spend millions, if not billions of dollars in Social Security and welfare on individuals who refuse to work and instead rely on Government handouts?\n\nThe fact that the federal government continues to strip the powers of the American Individual, and yet ask for MORE power in the false attempt to solve the problems of society?\n\nThe fact that the Iraq War is starting to turn into Bush's version of Johnson's Vietnam War?\n\nThe fact that the USA is no longer the dominant super-power it once was, but is being bested by China, Japan, Brazil, and Finland????\n\nNo....i don't really think so.
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i think the biggest threat in america is stupidity.  there are just so many stupid people in this country and its whats causing so many problems.  if people actually cared more about their lives and their education, instead of trying to be cool and popular and not care about anything but marrying into money and stop being lazy and actually TRY to learn something, our country would be MUCH better off.
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Here's one idea. You could argue about the crime rate in your community (assuming that you have crime in your community).I just know that crime is a big issue. For instance, you could argue about needing a larger police force or something. If you don't have a large crime rate in your community, then argue about better schools, or better garbage collection, or more sanitary restaurants. The possibilities are endless.
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1)  War on Terrorism, ignoring it only makes it worse, we have to finish it and it might take decades.  By this I mean the war on extremist in Islam but not the great Islam culture or religion itself just the extremist.\n\n2)  Health care; not a generalization but the elimination of a real shortage problem.  That shortage of staffing and facilities causes great price increases and reduces access to health care that is needed.  We need to recruit, educate and train more health care pro's...big time.\n\n3) Social Security; no reason I should pay $9k a year into a system for 40+ years and get so little return.  \n\n4) The archiac tax system needs to be replaced with a graduated flat tax....0 - $10k no taxes, $10.1 to $50k a 10%, $50k to $125k at 20% and over $125k at 30% ought to do it.\n\n5) Campaign finance reform; the issue is starting to tread on free speech and that can't be allowed to happen to the people of this great country.
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Overpopulation, all problems can be tied into population increase...think about it.
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I think here in Michigan the biggest issue is whether we are going to allow a person to buy the office of Governor. I think restoring checks and balance to the federal government is also important. Dove hunting has become an issue as well as equal rights.
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I think the Minutemen have done a great job of getting people aware of this mess nationally, I wish more people would write their city councils on it, though....keep the letters pouring in, see if you can attend meetings etc., go get publicly involved, see if your local college/high school can put together some kind of thing on community awareness of the entire mess...where there's a will, there's a way...
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1)corrupt government\n2)corrupt government\n3)corrupt government
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not all of those that you mentioned,\nbut yes,there are problems,conflicts,...etc.
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Humans are their biggest challenge... dealing w/ our nets, pollution and global warming for example.
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I get to choose more than one thing, right?:\n\n1)A great big nuke sending the Middle East back to the Stone Age that their mentality never left.\n\n2) CA either breaking off and falling into the Pacific Ocean- or at least forming their own Blue Country. The latter might actually be more amusing- a nation of protein starved half witted potheads trying to defend and support themselves.\n\n3) All persons who hailed from the NY-NJ-OH area being evacuated from Florida.\n\n4) The repeal of the 22nd Amendment.\n\n5) A longer NFL season.\n\n6) People over the age of 70 being confined to their homes during rush hour.\n\n7) School days extended by 2 hours, school year by 60 days.\n\n8) Defense lawyers reduced to being paid minimum wage, and no longer allowed to speak in front of cameras.\n\nThat's all I can think of for now.
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I think the biggest issue is poverty.  It also affects everyone everyday.  A lot of the healthcare problems are because of it.  People who are not poor are paying for the people who are.
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The bigger problem is making people care. There is too much citizen apathy in this country. Until that problem is addressed, nothing else really matters.
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The pros are: We know we have a huge problem in America.\nThe cons are: We know we have a huge problem in America.
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When you have a neighborhood with a high rate of joblessness you are faced with a populace who becomes more concerned with a roof over their head and food on the table than any more esoteric concerns......referring back to Maslow's hierarchy of needs----safety issues and basic physical issues come before abstractions.  Its hard to get excited about say, litter or vandalism or even school or tax issues when you are worried about feeding your family.