Democrats, Republicans, Independents Differ on Issues That Worry Them Most

Difference between the parties are huge. Gop is still cutting jobs and wages while handing it over to corporate tax cuts hoping it will trickle down. The dems passed legislation for 100% write offs for improvements made in THIS country. The gop wants to cut the IRS. The dems gave them the resources to go after offshore accounts. The gop wants to repeal the new banking legislation that addresses the problems with the gop's 2002 banking legislation. The gop refused to meet with our manufacturing sector while giving incentives to go overseas and taxing those profits at 5.25%. The dems have negotiated better trade deals that have our exports at double digit gains and 19 months of manufacturing gains. It looks to me like the dems policies and legislation are working for american workers and the gop's works for corporate record profits.

Due to the federal deficite if it is not in the constitution defund it.t

If we do not fix the deficit spending there will be no federal spending for any thing.
No one will want to accept the american dollar for any thing other than toilet paper.

life threatening* is what I meant...I ran out of characters toward the end. My apologies

First, I would like to say that I do not personally see myself as Republican, Democrat, nor Independent. I concur with certain aspects of each party. This is probably the biggest problem with America if you would like to go down to the foundation of all current problems nationally; Americans are forced to pick sides. Each party has its positives and negatives when it comes to the priorities of the future of this country. The problem is that neither party has all the top priorities. So therefore, someone will dominate and someone will not, which hinders our nation to improve, because not all of the top priorities are being exercised. Never the less, the reason for this post was my argument that I believe that Republicans are correct to worry about the economy and federal spending as the top priority (not saying that republicans are always correct) . It can not take a rocket scientist to understand that before healthcare, unemployment, social security, etc., can be dealt with, federal spending and the deficit and the economy must come first before anything else improves. In order to fix a problem correctly, permanently, and efficiently no matter how big or small, you must get to the root of the problem, which in America's case is money. You can try to improve healthcare and try to make it more available and more affordable all day long, but what will that do? Put us at more of a deeper deficit than we are already in, further hurt the economy, further create more unemployment, and create another entire downward cycle that us as Americans do not want to get deeper in to. I am merely a nursing student about to graduate. Am I extremely concerned about healthcare and where its going? Yes. You would think my first priority would be healthcare. But I would like to think that I am overly educated for the average nursing student and I see the bigger picture. Healthcare, education, unemployment, social security are all huge issues and problems. But before they can be fixed, we must fix the underlying problem. Americans really have gotten spoiled and really love immediate gratification. Unfortunately, with the way things are going, in order to really improve all of the nations immediate problems, it may take us Americans to have to suffer a bit before we feel the affects of improvement. Its sad how now, in modern times, people only seems to see the nations priorities as issues that they are being directly affected by and they simply want to improve it because "they" personally are hurting. I think this is a time for us to look back in history at our ancestors that created this "not so now wonderful democracy." It is time for Americans to be willing to have the possibility of suffering a little to change the big, versus trying to change the little to not suffer "right now." I promise, if we keep trying to fix the problems that our nation has just to be more "acutely" comfortable, we will all end up with a life threate "chronic" disease.Which would you rather?

The environment came in second to last? Shame on us. The most important problem for every species on the planet, including humans, and we ignore it. The simple fact is that we are rapidly approaching a point where there may be no way to fix climate change for hundreds of years. Theodore Roosevelt really hit the nail on the head when he said:
"We have gotten past the stage, my fellow-citizens, when we are to be pardoned if we treat any part of our country as something to be skinned for two or three years for the use of the present generation, whether it is the forest, the water, the scenery. Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it."
Of course, it would never have occurred to him that people could consider destroying not just a small part of the Earth, but the whole thing.

Clearly, no interest protect American people.

Newt & Mitt in '12..... But, almost anybody except Obamination!!!!

How unfortunate that our (the people) are left out due to the differences and contraversy of discussions that have no benefit for the people. And still no solutions; only debates, and competition with one another. WHEN WHEN WHEN will our representatives help us by combating the staged murders, fause accusations but mostly "With the stroke of my pen I can make your life disappear" and it's working against us terribly. And we know them and they are still working on jobs and nothing is done.

The media can try to confuse, spin and divided the isses all they want but all of theses issues (other than immigration) are the same thing. The media left out the biggest drag on the economy housing, which has affected more people then all of the other issues.