What 'things?' There's no requirement for NASA to spend tax dollars to placating morons.

How about altering the penalties for DUI and reckless/careless driving, and speeding based upon the weight or dangerousness of the vehicle you are driving? Something like 10 cents/pound or something. Why should someone drunk on a moped who is likely only going to hurt himself face the same penalty as someone driving a dump truck while drunk?

Insurance companies are not charities, they do not exist to support the indigent and the sick. They can only function if people pay premiums in before getting money back out.

Average American Income: $43,762 (US Census Bureau) Average Chinese Income: $2,025 (WorldBank)

I'm sure many foreigners might jump on in disagreement if they look at how it was passed. There wasn't enough time to read and comprehend the bill before the vote. One senator was called out for saying you need 2 days and 2 lawyers just to read and understand the bill, and somehow that was not an expense he found acceptable before voting for it. Another said we won't know what's in the bill until after it passes which seemed ok for them but isn't for the people. We elect and pay politicians to create legislation, not rubber stamp someone else' crap and spend the next 2 months wondering what they made into law. The debate on the bill was very little if any- it almost seemed as if some in the government was afraid that if the public knew what was in the bill, they wouldn't like it(which turned out to be a reality).

Won't work. The opposition are a bunch of pussies.

Sure, rehabilitation might prevent future crimes by the same offenders, but some of us think prison should be more about punishment instead of rehabilitation. If prison was an extremely hard punishment, to the point that people were actively scared of going, it would deter more people from committing crimes in the first place.

The 4th amendment does not apply. As with every other country, the US considers domestic law to only apply when you are inside the country. If you have not yet cleared customs, you are technically not in the country. Therefore, you do not benefit from the protections of domestic law. This may seem like quibbling, but it is how every country controls its borders.

A lot of the world is also *against* you as I discovered after I walked in a Tea Party protest. I thought it was common sense - The current national debt is $120,000 per home, projected to be $200,000 by 2016, and yet the Congress is still spending money like mad. It needs to stop.

But no. Instead I was called an "astroturfer" which is wrong because I don't get paid. Then I was labeled a "racist" but that's also not true; and frankly insulting. Even if Hillary was president or McCain president, I'd still protest because I see us spending ourselves into a hole that we'll never escape. Common sense position? Apparently not; some Americans want the debt to climb to ~$200,000 per home.

"More of the world is with you than you think," is only half the story. A lot of the world is against you, and they want MORE government control, not less They want censorship. They want the Patriot Act. They want more spending.