If the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has accurately estimated the planet's economically accessible uranium resources, reactors could run more than 200 years at current rates of consumption.

200 years is a long time.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-global-uranium-deposits-last/

We should keep using Nuclear Energy for the next 100 years at least. In the meantime alternative fuel energy markets will grow more refined and the technology will improve perhaps to the point where renewable energy is cheaper.

Nuclear power plants generate a huge waste which can't be neutralized for millions of years. France is (sadly) the nation with the highest percentage of nuclear energy in its total. Edf is having great troubles currently as they have no longer enough space to store it. They have to build a 300km tunnel with expensive technology (something like 3 billion euros) to make decent storage that could resist for the next millennia, it is even not profitable. But even if it can last thousands of years nuclear wastes keep being dangerous for millions of years. So tell me again how is nuclear energy beneficial for the environment?

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A possible source of great energy in the near future is Helium 3, if we successfully colonize the Moon.

It's a choice to participate and chip in, but you have to chip in to get anything.

It wouldn't be worth it for the rich to chip in, though. If they're hurt, they can get private healthcare emergency services. That's why taxes are mandatory. Imagine if the police was "if you want, chip in". Greatly underfunded.

But there isn't anything he can do about it

Well, don't let states have minimal wages, either.

What does this even mean?

He makes the laws.

Nuclear energy, unless something goes wrong, generates zero pollution. Only some nasty nuclear waste which is much easier to dump than most people claim it it.

unless something goes wrong; nuclear waste. You know, there are some serious problems with normal rubbish already, we don't need toxic rubbish, too. Can't we have enough foresight to see that urani, plutoni, thori, all these stuff are going to run out, too, not to say that they're also dangerous to mine and get. But will you run out of wind or Sun, or waterflow? No (though there are some other problems with water-electricity). I'm for using nuclear power, but not for funding using it.

we successfully colonize the Moon.

Yeah, in 2116.

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I mean we're not making laws based on social issues. The courts can determine whether or not somebody is correct in social issues.

I just wish to say that it isn't that hard to limit campaign donations. Just put a ten million cap on it.

Thanks Thomas.

I meant funds that people can use for their campaigns, not funds they can receive.

You can't run a national campaign on $10 million. Donald Trump, even with the 24/7 free advertising he gets on every major news network, internet new site, and social media, has already spent about $20 million. And this is just the primaries!! The total for the 2012 election year - Presidential + Senate + House of Representatives + Governorship + State Legislatures - was about $7 billion. People forget that political campaigns are there own business sector that generate taxable income and profits for businesses. In election campaign years the only thing that happens is redistribution of wealth: rich guys give money to Democratic and Republican candidates. Republican and Democratic candidates spend the money on advisers, ads, pollsters, and consultant companies. This tertiary link is then taxed. Citizens United is not as evil as people make it up to be.

He makes the laws.

You seem to be very flawed in your understanding of US government if you think that makes him the court....

You can't run a national campaign on $10 million. Donald Trump, even with the 24/7 free advertising he gets on every major news network, internet new site, and social media, has already spent about $20 million. And this is just the primaries!! The total for the 2012 election year - Presidential + Senate + House of Representatives + Governorship + State Legislatures - was about $7 billion. People forget that political campaigns are there own business sector that generate taxable income and profits for businesses. In election campaign years the only thing that happens is redistribution of wealth: rich guys give money to Democratic and Republican candidates. Republican and Democratic candidates spend the money on advisers, ads, pollsters, and consultant companies. This tertiary link is then taxed. Citizens United is not as evil as people make it up to be.

I agree with you, but on quite different grounds. This does promote oligarchy; there should be no money prerequisite for running for president, and part of the major lack of success of third party in America is lack of funds. The problem with this, though, is that the 10 million $ can be bypassed, by giving it to organisations that support this, and spreading it. I am for freedoms, and so am for no caps like this, especially since they won't solve anything.

You seem to be very flawed in your understanding of US government if you think that makes him the court....

Maybe I am, but the court is just to see if what laws and who is guilty in ambigous situations, while the politicians make the laws, if I am not mistaken?

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Do it like Austria:

- Free healthcare and education for everyone.
- No nuclear enerygy. Rely on renewable recources (40% of Energy produced in Austria comes from rivers).
- Greatly reduce the military personnel (Protect your own country, but get out of the rest of the world).
- Guns are only avialable to people with special license.
- Become military neutral. (Leave the NATO) ( You would save BILLIONS yearly that way)

Do it like Austria:
- Rise children in cellars
- sing with a weird manner (yodelling)
- 'nuff said.

- No nuclear enerygy. Rely on renewable recources (40% of Energy produced in Austria comes from rivers).

Not viable for much larger and more geographically varied countries with larger populations.

Tyrion's ignorance is worrying me.

Austria has some 8 or 12 million population.

USA has 400 mil.

Actually, Genghis its 340 million, and Austrias is 8 million.

Also, Koala, if you think the cost of storing nuclear waste is high.... you seriously suggested a moon colony. Talk about expensive.

Middle East
-Try to resolve Palestine issue peaceably.
-Work with the region to take down ISIL.
-negotiate methods to extract unnecessary military personnel and military bases.

Russia
-Possibly lift sanctions, but it is hard to predict what would happen by 2018/19.

China
-Continue trade and investment.

NATO
-Maintain NATO but decrease intervention.

I agree with these points of your reform plan, however I reject your positions on
Social and Economic matteers.

And I am sceptical about the first part of your reform plan.

I'm going to make America's Pull-Out Game Great again! Genghis #2k16

I vote you but only to 50% . To the other 50% I reject you.

Did you miss something in my post? Oh yes, you missed "future". Helium 3 is in the roadmap of China planning to land before 2030 on the moon and open a mine to extract it.

As for nuclear energy it is not a renewable energy it will eventually be completely exploited, and as I told you it generates a huge waste of radioactive materials that can't be destroyed at all, and yes it also generates very high costs, that's why renewable energies are in the long term more profitable and more importantly will not destroy the environment.