Abortion, yes education and accountability. Don’t want a child, don’t get in a position to create one. Male or female, YOU are responsible for your acts, not other people. If you MUST have an abortion, YOU pay for it; you created your “problem”; YOU solve it.
Health care: it’s NO ONE’s right, and forcing people to pay for exorbitantly priced insurance has not only NOT improved health, but actually contributed to a loss of health care for many. Because the costs of the insurance and copays/deductibles are so high, actually accessing health care is out of reach for far too many! The expected life span actually has DROPPED for the first time in decades. Again, education, but also curbing Monsanto with their GMOs that are poisoning people and animals alike, and also stopping food processors adding addictive ingredients and processing out actual nutrients would go further than forced health insurance.
Trades and trades schools: again I agree with you. We have hurt ourselves and kids for decades by “encouraging” college for all; not only don’t we have adequately trained trades people, but not all kids are “college material” and there aren’t that many “college grad” jobs needed or available. Apprenticeships would be good as well, for trades.
Bombs: There are times when a bomb is the only realistic weapon to choose; and there are peoples who KEEP innocent women and/or children around an important leader, so folks who don’t understand the necessity of taking out that leader, will think exactly as you do about this. I would bet you believe Truman was wrong to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, rather than invade the home islands as our troops had done all across the Pacific, because so many died. Today’s bombs are much more precise in targeting; but the fact is that, as many Japanese did die in those attacks, FAR MORE Japanese, as well as probably as many as half a million Allied troops, at least, would have died in an invasion of those islands. Japanese women and children as young as 8–9 years old were training to repel Allied invaders, as kamikazes and warriors, not just the adults and men. The bombs actually SAVED far more Japanese lives than they took. War is never a “pretty, polite” practice and shouldn’t be entered into lightly; but there are times when it must, unless you are suicidal and wish to die; or to be enslaved by others. And when it is entered, it should ONLY be to WIN! Then the nation and ally building comes.
I don’t find your positions offensive, only somewhat naive in some cases, and perhaps influenced by revisionist history. You are enough younger than I to have been caught in it; some of my younger siblings who are now in their 60s were.
