I believe that marijauna should not be legal. We have TONS of other drugs out there, and it's only to increase appeptite, not to actually serve as a cure. Weed is a drug for people that want to get high. Just get outta here....go do it illegally if you're gonna do it. We have no reason for it to be llegal. Most people just want it to get high, and it's twice as bad for your lungs than tobacco is.

I agree. Why are we feeding them, clothing them, and providing shelter if they'll be in there for life anyway? We should just use the death penalty instead of life sentences to prison.

COLE MEYER...CAN YOU DO IT BETTER? No. You can't get up there and run the country any better than Obama is. We need to give him a chance to change. Scott Walker is just going to make it a dictatorship. If he could, he would. Last year there were a lot of protests. I wonder why...

http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/thousands_protest_wisconsin_gov_scott_walkers_anti-union_attack.html

...and how are we going to do this? You can't diss all the government officials, since most of us can't do it any better than they are right now. Americans need to get real and start giving positive ideas, not dissing everyone. That's the only way anything will get better, ever.

Yeah. The human race can't continue if there are no straight couples. Being straight IS the way it's supposed to be. This really needs to be regulated, especially in public.

I agree strongly. We need to more strongly prevent illegal immigrants from coming here. Our economy is frail and we do not need them taking more and more jobs that Americans could have right now. It's very bad and they need to be shot down.

We also need to not increase taxes on everyone. The rich help keep our economy going, and everyone should get to keep more of the money we earn. Taxes take away a lot of money, and it would help our economy out if people had a bit more of their money to spend or use as they wish. President Ronald Reagan: "We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much”

we should increase military spending because we need to have a powerful military in order to prevent future national crisis. If someone attacks us in our country again, we have to have a very strong military in order to survive it. If we decrease military spending, we will be in trouble when our nation needs our military to be strong.

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The death penalty is also a good thing. People need to get punished for their crimes. We have a high crime rate in this country and jail doesn't seem to help.

I agree with Tessa because everyone thinks that everything can just be handed to them. We have major news; it's not. The health business has a lot of things going wrong; the prices just go up and up, many things are getting cut, and they don't treat the employees very well either. My mom works there and they don't get bonuses ever, raises, and the doctor she works for just got a 20,000 dollar cut in salary. That is just ridiculous because I still see new TV commercials and advertisements all the time.

I agree. Why are we not shooting the illegal Mexicans down when they cross into our country? We need the money to use on other things, that we would save if we didn't have to ship them back to Mexico, only to do it all over again.

I agree with Maggie. There is not a person out there that can get our country's economy up like we want, in one presidential term. We need to give Obama a chance to change it. Four years is a very little time when talking about getting a huge nation like ours out of recession.

Our country is in debt, and we don't need all those troops over in Iraq. Many jobs have come rom the war, but maybe Americans should start taking all those jobs that we think we're too good to do, and we'd have all those people employed. The U.S. was in Iraq because we got attacked and needed to defend ourselves, and destroy the masterminds; not to defend Iraq leaders.

Exactly. Some parents don't want their children to see that! Some parents don't want their kids to see men and women show PDA, so why should homosexual PDA be different?

I believe that lebsbian, gay, and bisexual attraction shouldn't be accepted.

I believe God created man and woman for a reason.

I think homosexual and bisexual people make that choice, they're not born that way.

Gay marriage shouldn't be legal at all, either. God has created man and then woman for a reason....not two women or two men.

I don't have any against the individuals. I have something against the homosexual attraction/marriage being legal, and I don't want to see that in public. If you're gonna be that way, then keep it at home.

Some homosexuals in schools argue that when they do show PDA, people make them stop just because they are discriminating against homosexuals. Heterosexuals are not allowed to show attraction at school, so neither should they.

I believe abortion should be illegal because it’s murder with a different name. Murder is absolutely not acceptable in our society, so what makes people think murdering an innocent, developing child is acceptable? No matter how the woman got pregnant, she should not have abortion as an option. There are other options once the child is born, such as adoption. Abortion should not be one of those options.

http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Democrats_vs._Republicans#Abortion