Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

We should require that our politicians use a transparent decision making process, in which they clearly outline the reasons voted for a bill, and the reasons they hesitated voting for a bill. This process works well for the court system, which is required to give a majority and minority opinion, after they vote. It also works in engineering classes, where students are not only required to get the right answer, but are required to show their work, indicating to the professor how they came to their conclusion. Currently, we don't even require them to pretend that they are acting in our interest by having a formal procedure that they account and explain their actions. There are many ways we could expose the decision making progress to the light of transparency. For each vote we could require that politicians: pass tests on subjects that affect their vote . This will support transparency by letting us know if our politicians are even informed or not. If they know nothing about anythi...

Reasons  to agree: We will not succeed in trying to modernize countries that want to live in the 12th century.  We can't force other countries to want  Democracy . If it doesn't seem like something they want, then we aren't going to convince them. It is the 21st centery. They have access to all the books, data, and examples of history that we do. Let them figure it out themselves. We can bomb terrorist training camps from 1 mile up in the sky.  We killed Osama Bin Laden.  Reasons  to disagree:   Probable interest  of those who agree: Probable interest  of those who disagree: Common Interest Opposing Interest   Images  That agree    Images  That disagree Videos That agree   Videos That disagree   Website that agree Websites that disagree   Related arguments: Score : # of reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to agree with reas...

Background : The President issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the HHS Secretary to ensure that those hospitals that receive Medicare and Medicaid funds will give gay and lesbian patients and their families the compassion, dignity and respect they deserve in difficult times, as well as widows and widowers with no children, members of religious orders, and others whom otherwise may not have been able to receive visits from good friends and loved ones who are not immediate relatives, or select them to make decisions on their behalf in case of incapacitation. Reasons  to agree: The  separation  of church and state requires that you allow gay couples to arrange their lives as they wish. A gay person's partner should have similar life and death decision making preferences as a  heterosexual  partner.  Reasons  to disagree:   Probable interest  of those who agree: Probable interest  of those who disagree: Common Interest Opposing Intere...

Reasons  to agree: Reasons  to disagree:  Front operating field combatants group dynamics should not include romance.  This is a debate about soldiers being required to defend their country while living and rooming in close quarters with each other. It is a fact that their effectiveness depends on mutual trust and uncomplicated camaraderie. Sexual relations or tension between soldiers, of whatever gender, undermines this bond. Every man must trust one another without sexual tensions at high levels. Probable interest  of those who agree: Probable interest  of those who disagree: Common Interest Opposing Interest   Images  That agree    Images  That disagree Videos That agree   Videos That disagree   Website that agree Websites that disagree   Related arguments: Score : # of reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: ...

Reasons to Agree : Stagnant wages and cost of living make it harder for families to thrive Case Study: A 2023 Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report found that real wages for the bottom 50% of earners have stagnated despite economic growth. Policy Example: The Raise the Wage Act, which proposed increasing the federal minimum wage to $15/hr, was projected to lift 1.3 million workers out of poverty (Congressional Budget Office, 2021). Job opportunities vary widely based on geography and education Case Study: A 2022 Brookings Institution study found that rural areas lost 20% of manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2020, whereas urban centers gained high-tech and service-sector employment. Policy Example: The CHIPS and Science Act (2022) aimed to create high-tech manufacturing jobs in the U.S., especially in industrial towns. Automation and globalization have reduced traditional job opportunities Case Study: The McKinsey Global Institute projects that automation could eliminate 45 million ...

Reasons  to agree: Because many people have to work until 5, and don't get home until 5:30, we need after school programs to keep un-supervised kids off the streets, and out of gangs.  After school  programs as a form of childcare is much better than the type of welfare that just hands money over to poor people, because after school programs helps poor people have jobs, and contribute to society.  Once your kids are back in school, the government should help you work a normal work day.  Children should be in school for the same time duration as a typical work day. This obviously, would allow parents to work without having to pay for child-care. For those parents who want to spend more time with their children they don't have to send their kids to after school programs.  Your never going to have enough after school programs to please all parents, some of whom don't ever want their kids to come home in the evening, but watching kids until 5, or 5:30 shouldn't...

Reasons  to agree: When you have administrators  in Federal, State, and County agencies all with the same responsibility you are wasting money. When you have  administrators  in Federal, State, and County agencies all with the same responsibility there is no accountability for the performance of any of the government agencies. When the federal government has a mission that is the same as more local governments, they often don't really do anything besides set standards which the local agencies are not required to follow, and  funnels  money which they takes from individuals in each state, and put is back into other states. This whole process is overly complex, prone to corruption, bad incentives, inefficient with our money, and leads to bad results.  Reasons  to disagree:   Probable interest  of those who agree: Probable interest  of those who disagree: Common Interest Opposing Interest   Images  That agree    Ima...