A Real Plan A respected US historian outlines a sensible plan for fixing America. Pigs may fly, but it's a nice set of ideas. posted to culture by DexX, Sep 12th, 2002
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This isn't a sensible plan, it's a pie-in-the-sky Utopian wishlist of the worst kind. It doesn't even address the actual issues at the heart of America's problems. After the worst terrorist attack in American history, the solution is to cut back on the military and make sure everyone gets great health care? What the fuck?
Actually, that was the solution before the terrorist attack, too.
I agree that this article is flawed, though. It switches gears fairly abruptly in the middle, and its two halves don't seem to have much to do with each other. I support universal health care and good housing and whatnot, but I fail to see the connection between those issues and the issue of our government detaining citizens and picking fights unconstitutionally, except insofar as funding one more means funding the other less (a point which the article touches on briefly towards the end).
This isn't a sensible plan, it's a pie-in-the-sky Utopian wishlist of the worst kind. It doesn't even address the actual issues at the heart of America's problems. After the worst terrorist attack in American history, the solution is to cut back on the military and make sure everyone gets great health care? What the fuck?
Actually, that was the solution before the terrorist attack, too.
I agree that this article is flawed, though. It switches gears fairly abruptly in the middle, and its two halves don't seem to have much to do with each other. I support universal health care and good housing and whatnot, but I fail to see the connection between those issues and the issue of our government detaining citizens and picking fights unconstitutionally, except insofar as funding one more means funding the other less (a point which the article touches on briefly towards the end).