Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

@freethinker8274 Occasionally it can be exhausting discussing things in a civil manner with certain political opponents... The republicans feel like a political party here in Norway named the "Progress Party" They're far right by our standards... Although generally less hostile towards basic democratic principles then the republican party...
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A American republican that actually sounds like he knows what he's talking about for a change... Some tax increase would also help though, as well as more financial regulation. All of those would reduce the money supply. And increased taxation would also help balance the budget. But he's right, you need spending cuts too (less military spending for instance) Fewer military bases, for instance in Africa wouldn't be a bad idea I think. Some more regulation of the military procurement process etc...
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@jesusalonso2179 Why shouldn't this be discussed if I may ask?
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@@win4lifee I really can't see any reason whatsoever why this discussion has any relevance to security... Care to enlighten me on how that might be?
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@tanderson6442 Nor could anyone in Washington DC. Their requirement was a Green Card. So you'd have to be a legal resident. And if you where to come to my country as a legal resident, for instance on a student visa, live here for 3 years with such a legal residency, then yes, you would be able to vote here. Look up non-citizen suffrage on Wikipedia and you'll see that it's quite common, even within the US and has been for a long time. You guys have been doing it since WW1 or so. And we here in Europe are doing it more and more. In some countries you can even vite in national elections as a resident without any time requirements first. That's a bit much for me too. But people who have lived a long time in your country and who are legal residents absolutely should be allowed to vote in the local elections that impacts them the most. As for federal elections, of course keep them citizens only. That's more or less the standard countries increasingly are landing on right now around the world.
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@stealthy817 True, this is the US. And in the end you guys do make the rules. But that doesn't mean that we're not free to comment on when you guys are doing and having a strong opinion on it. Honestly, given how limited your knowledge about the rest of the world is and how poorly run the US is as a country getting those non-citizen votes might be vital for you guys to save your country... Because most of you aren't aware of all the things you are doing worse tjen the rest of us, and all the ways others genuinely are doing things better and how many other countries genuinely are better places to live then the US. Don't get me wrong. The US isn't a bad place to live overall. But you've fallen so much relative to the rest of the world, in part because you've become even more inwards looking then you used to be. And that's making life worse, not just for non-citizens in the US, but for US citizens that's born and breed in the country. You're wasting so much talents in your country. Wasting so much resources.
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@stealthy817 And sure, you may not care about what's being done in a country that's genuinely a better place to live in then yours. But that attitude is a big part of why the US is falling more and more behind. Most people in the world are outside the US. Most good ideas are made outside the US, not inside its borders. And quite frankly the world has learned a lot about how to run a country well that you guys have just missed out on due to being so inwards looking.
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@downtime86stars17 100% oxygen would kill us. Oxygen is a carcinogenic gas and while we've evolved to handle some oxygen and even to depend on it it's definitely not healthy in large amounts over long time. And some greenhouse gasses are needed to keep Earth from having the same climate as Mars. But there's a huge difference between that and what we currently have in the atmosphere. The majority of that carbon should still be bound up underground and only slowly be released into the atmosphere, not all at once like it is now. We've already dissolved many of the more important mechanisms that earth has of regulating the levels of CO2, like the calsium carbonate on the sea floor. Leaving us only with much slower processes like the withering of mountains and just biological mechanisms like forests and algaes etc.
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 @glenw1740 Thank you... Just because this panel was caught of guard with a question that no one would normally expect doesn't change the fact that this is a urgent and real problem.
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 @soakupthesunman Bs. We're nowhere near extinction levels of CO2. During the ice ages we where at 180 ppm, we're now at over 400. Most of our nature evolved to deal with about 200...
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@scatpackdriver2535 Quite a few Europeans have brought refugees from Syria and Ukraine into their homes actually...
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@richardbently7236 The US economy and society would collapse then. Republicans often underestimate just how interconnected the world is and how you genuinely can't learn everything in US universities, companies etc, that you don't have all the solutions needed to make everything that you guys use in day to day life. There's no one in Intel, AMD or Nvidia that knows how to make CPUs or GPUs even close to modern that's cheap enough for computers that average Americans can afford to buy. They need the services of a fab like TMSC in Taiwan. The new fans being created in the US depends on importing labour from Taiwan and machinery from Europe. And it'll take you decades before you can do what TSMC is doing within US borders. And you'd still lack capabilities made in Europe. The US is only a small part of the worlds population and economy, and can't keep up with the amount of innovation going on outside the US borders. You depend on ideas and solutions made elsewhere for your products. Otherwise you are limited to outdated technology that you are able to make within your borders. You have car factories. But the reason modern cars are so much better (horde power, energy efficiency etc) then those of the eighties is to a large degree that microchips allows more detailed control over the burn process. But sure, you can do that... You can go isolationist... I mean, North Korea did that, and you can look at how that worked out for them... Although granted, with your size it's more likely to end up with a USSR style dysfunctional economy rather than a North Korean one... Since you have a little bit more resources within your borders...
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@trentjacobs3957 Yes, self determination is the whole point here, that's why I'm arguing for voting rights for people living within your borders, who already have your permission to live there, who are already paying taxes and contributing to your nation. And you can already vote in plenty of other nations when you're residents here... Look up the Wikipedia article on non-citizen suffrage. Because right now about 1 in 10 people living in the US are non-citizens, yet most of them have no right to vote for school boards etc. I don't expect non-citizens to be allowed to vote for your president anytime soon although there's some countries allowing non-citizens to vote at a national level that's still fairly uncommon in this world and not permitted in my country as a example. But local elections? Yes, definitely. And that's been practiced already for centuries in the US. The republicans just happened to want to turn this into something it's not just to win cheap political points... You have plenty of places where non-citizens have been able to vote for a long time. One place has had continuous voting for non-citizens since around WW1... Honestly congress intervening in this sounds a bit unconstitutional to me given that you guys practice conventions essentially being legally binding, and you guys have been doing this for a long time, so it seems like this is a local matter not a national one And has been for a long time... Kind of ironic that it's the republicans intervening in local democracy in this case given how that party traditionally has been arguing for local self determination...
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@robertely2825 Why what is critical?
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@mistytharpe3991 Maybe, but why aren't they allowed to make rules about themselves without congress intervening? It's not like they're the first place that's doing non-citizen suffrage in the US. You guys have been doing that at least since WW1, so there's nothing new there, other then the republicans suddenly making a big difference deal about them using their local democracy in a way that they don't like. Normally in any other country the way to change that would be to get elected themselves there, instead they're overruling their local democracy in a legeslative body where Washington DC has no representation with voting rights. And the republicans usually argue for more local autonomy, so why the sudden change of hearts? This kind of inconsistent politics is part of why I don't like first past the post electoral systems... In proportional ones like we have in my country political parties actually believe in things and you vote for ideologies and political directions rather than characters and who can "shout" the loudest...
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