Glaring difference between North/South Korea

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The problem with this, of course, is that I believe many conservative politicians feel the same way that you or I do on this issue. However, repealing farm subsidies and getting rid of social security unfortunately alienates farmers and the elderly who have failed to stockpile enough money to retire over their lifetime.

If every politician ran on the platforms that they truly believed in this wouldn't be a problem. Personally, while growing up (rather prosperously, I might add) I felt a lot more strongly about repealing these types of social programs. When in college, my girlfriend (now wife) got pregnant, we had to rely heavily on Medicaid, LaCHIP and WIC. We wouldn't have been able to afford it otherwise... so my feelings are a little different on this issue.

Care to elaborate on this?

I don't pretend to know enough about our tax laws and brackets to be able to say one way or another what would be best for the country as a whole.
I would like to kick all of the illegal immigrants out and privatize Social Security, however. Talk about a burden on the economy!

 

Do we still have troops in S.K.? I know in the late 80's we had up to 50,000 troops located in S.K. Last question is, who was in charge of S.K. b/4 Kim IL's dad?

 

I believe we have roughly 37k over in South Korea but that is planned to change with troops being sent elsewhere and lowering that number.

I do know that nearly 14,000 Marines off of Japan are going to also be spread out so they push that number back up.

 

My best friend just got back from being over in S. Korea, so yes we still have troops over there, no idea how many though.

 

i would favor killing social security slowly so people who paid into it still get money, but nobody ever pays into it again. farm subsidies are 100% terrible and are an abomination not only because we have to pay, but because they are unfair and prevent better products from competing. it screws foreign relations too, because other countries are justifiably pissed.

sucks that your irresponsibility costs the taxpayers. this is what families and churches are for.

mccain has horribly mangled freedom of speech with one of the worst laws ever passed, with his campaign finance stuff.

 

Thanks R55, didn't sung il craft his own religion or something. I don't remember the name of it but it's basically communism dressed in religion. I believe it is based on worshiping the leader of your country and look at him as god and no one or anything else. Any time a leader of a country builds a giant statue of him self and hangs paintings of himself all over the place you can grantee that the country is a big poor mess.