When you are away from DU, what idiotic plan do people tell you "will just fix everything"

[OmahaBlueDog]

...not to say we've never proposed anything idiotic on DU, but between the people I meet, and the comments I read on various news outlets, these are the most common solutions I hear.

[CleanGreenFuture]

1. I have an extremely hard time finding people in my life that give a shit.

[21st Century FDR]

2. Cutting Social Security & Medicare while lowering taxes for rich tax dodgers

That one always gets the laughs.

[yourout]

3. Other....Flat tax fantasy.

[OmahaBlueDog]

13. How did I forget that one.

If one is 40 something, you might remember playing this game they had on the Apple II where you set tax rates and built your kingdom. Basically, the way you won was by doing 3 things:

1) The Government needed to build marketplaces
2) You eliminated income and property tax and jacked sales tax way up
3) You poured a bunch of money into defense so the neighboring kingdom wouldn't invade

I swear that dumb game (the name of which escapes me) and Ayn Rand are responsible for this mess.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. All of the above plus reverting to the Gold Standard.

Accompanied by "Glen Beck was right!" and a shower of spittle.

[nevergiveup]

5. A lady from southern Ohio told me yesterday

that getting a businessman like Donald Trump in the White House would solve everything. I was beyond speechless.

[FLAprogressive]

9. that's how people like FL Gov Rick Scott get elected. The GOP mentality is that government should be

"run like a business", so the CEO is a God-like figure to them.

[OmahaBlueDog]

14. Right - someone who knows business will straighten that town out

I forgot that one as well.

[Ohio Joe]

6. Other

I've not met anyone that has claimed to have a plan to fix everything.

[OmahaBlueDog]

15. You probably spend too much time here at DU

:)

[Cool Logic]

7. Fair Tax...and then, of course, I tell them that it will never happen.

http://my.democrats.org/page/group/FairTaxDemocrats
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/02/24/why_democrats_should_love_the_fairtax/

[FLAprogressive]

8. Term limits. They think that replacing old politicians with new politicians helps.

It doesn't.

[saras]

10. "Stop worrying about it", "Law and order", "Free enterprise", "Democracy" and "Heroin"

[Bluenorthwest]

11. Other: never met a person claiming to have any such plan at all.

nt

[cwydro]

12. Everyone I know

thinks we are fucked and circling the drain.

And they voted for Obama.

I don't know anyone with a "fix everything" idea.

[Kaleva]

16. Other-slash the military budget.

There is no one plan that will fix everything by itself.

Only one person said that to me. I have heard no one else putting forth their idea(s) as to what they'd like to have done.

[Quixote1818]

17. I hear the "send back the illegals" and "welfare bums" rant a lot around here

Probably those two the most.