(12-27-2024, 10:09 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

(12-26-2024, 03:35 PM)mikesez Wrote: Has nothing to do with Trump.
I agree that there are things we need to change, and who changes them is unimportant.  Few of those on the left echo this sentiment. 
We need to stop making pennies, nickels, and dollar bills. We need to design a dollar coin that is as light as a quarter but feels different in your pocket.  So, a three-coin system, dimes, quarters and the new dollar coin?  And you thought people were opposed to a metric conversion.  Besides, Biden has already given us a dollar that only carries the weight of a quarter!  (Sorry, couldn't resist)
We need to stop changing our clocks twice a year.  Why?  P.S. Not even in the top 1,000 priorities.
We need to implement ranked choice Copeland method voting for Congress.  Congress is a problem, but that's not the solution.
We need to have strict rules on district maps for Congress and state legislature, so strict that a computer can find the optimal set of district lines and no one can argue with it.  A computer can only find what it's programmed to find.  There will always be argument over anything and everything that potentially affects a party's power and influence.  Who's going to write the program establishing the search criteria? 
We need to re-write the books on prosecutorial ethics, so that there is a real presumption of innocence, and have judges who will enforce those ethics.  Prosecutors are as much of the problem as judges.  Politics need to be removed from the equation, but good luck with that.  It's a hot mess. 
We need to have real tariffs against states that fail to reduce their CO2 output.  How exactly are these states expected to reduce their respective outputs? 
We need to eliminate barriers to building more homes in the places people want to live.  Agreed, but the solution is in State and municipal zoning regulations, not the Federal government. 

So, so many things we need.  So much calcification that needs to be sloughed off.  Don't care who does it.

But owning Greenland or the Panama canal simply isn't on the list.  Not on your list maybe, but could that be your bias against the originator of the idea?  Greenland is rich in natural resources and could ultimately prove to be highly profitable.  Increased control over the Panama Canal would help stabilize shipping costs that are ultimately paid by American consumers.  Wouldn't lower costs be a good thing? 

Greenland is not for sale and according to the Danish government, will never be for sale.  Besides, even if it was for sale, it would cost tens of trillions of dollars to buy it, and we can't float that much more debt.  So buying Greenland is impossible to anyone with half a brain.  And by the way, whatever happened to cutting spending?  Now Trump wants to spend 10, 20, 30 Trillion dollars?  

Then there's the idea of taking over the Panama Canal.  All Trump has done by floating that idea is unite all of Central and South America against us.  Trump says we need to keep out of foreign conflicts, but he would create a massive one if he tried to take back the Panama Canal.  So that's another idiotic idea. 

The Canal is off the table: Latin America closes ranks with Panama in face of Trump’s threats | International | EL PAÍS English

The intention of the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, to regain control of the Panama Canal was not only met with immediate rejection by the president of the Central American country, José Raúl Mulino, but also gave rise to a wave of far-reaching solidarity, from Mexico to Chile to Colombia. The response was practically unanimous: “The interoceanic route belongs to the Panamanians.” But the underlying argument was just as clear: the sovereignty of the territories in the region is not to be touched.

“Every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone belongs to Panama and will continue to do so,” Mulino said

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