1. Another Housing Crisis
The result of government mismanagement and bad business practices, the sub-prime mortgage crises (or the Housing Bubble Burst) became the major cause of economic downturn for the United States in 2007 and 2008. The Federal Reserve has decided to double down on these policies, by spending billions of dollars a month to buy up mortgage backed securities. Peter Schiff says this is an attempt to re-inflate the bubble that already burst, and could cause another collapse of similar proportions.
2. Marriage Rights
Despite supposedly having the support of our current president, very little has been done in the way of legalizing gay marriage in this country. While this may not appear to be a major issue to everyone, it is a civil rights issue where the United States is well behind the curve. Marriage is a right, not a privilege, and should be guaranteed to all consenting adults. It is time for both parties to lay down partisanship, step over bigotry, and get the ball rolling.
3. The Decline of Privacy
With the Surveillance State growing exponentially over the last decade in the way of drones, the TSA, the PATRIOT Act, stop-and-frisk, and other similar legislation, this has now become a serious issue. The Fourth Amendment is being thrown by the wayside in the name of "security." These policies do little-if-not-nothing to make us safer, and put us on a slippery slope toward an Orwellian police state where big brother is always watching you. It is never irrelevant to quote Benjamin Franklin, when he said, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
4. A Massive Regulatory Burden
Be it the swath of new regulation buried in the Affordable Care Act, consumer choice in light bulbs and toilets, or the legality of drinking raw milk, the regulatory burden in this country is becoming unsustainable. When kid's lemonade stands are being shut down, men are being imprisoned for holding bible studies in their home, or the conservation of rainwater winds you up in an extensive legal battle, there is something seriously wrong with referring to America as "Land of the Free."
5. Ending the Drug War
There few more morally reprehensible acts which I can think of than the policy of locking nonviolent human beings in cages. It is time for us to end the war on drugs, and return to personal responsibility. There are two ways of looking at, the drug war is either a miserable failure or a great success. It fails in all the ways alcohol prohibition failed. But it succeeds in being one of the largest and most transparent rackets in the history of American government. To either end, ending the efforts now would have positive effects on the economy and greatly reduce violent crime.
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