'Adoption of the Populist Party's ideals would/is beneficial for the United States of America."

My case. 1. Money My opponent goes to point out how the dollar is continuely loosing value, but before we judge the dollar this way we need to look at it from the eyes of the poor and yourself. In yesterday's and today's world the farmer gets paid a very minisual amount for what they produce, eventhough they feed 155 Americans per farmer and they employ 17.6% of the US population. . http://www.farmersfeedus.org... Since the farmer's pay on average is so low the farmers barely made a living after farm equipment, seeds, etc. .. and this led to massive debt which it made it harder for farmers. Let me show you an example, say I loan you $100 dollars to buy farm equipment, with inflation that number will drop in value to about $60 dollars making it easier to pay off. This helps out the poor and if we help out the poor the standards of living will increase for the middle class causing people to have more money and thus stimulating the economy . http://www.slate.com... note the date on the link of March of this year, this holds water in this debate showing how it is up to date for the most part. As you see here that this overall helps the poor and increases the standard of living for even you. You can see on average this helps you and the general good for all Americans more than harm.2. Transportation and Regulation We can actually see here that the ICC was actually helpful, because it was the legislature's attempt to attack the Railroad industry, though I admitt it was a major fail! This was because of their agenda's that the legislature's wanted to appease their voters and they can go back to having the money pot, the Super PAC of the day, the Railroad companies. You see back then the government was expanding in ways that it has never been before and this opened up chances for corruption and this happend a lot. . http://www.apstudynotes.org...My opponent brings up how grand the Laissez-faire economy is, but she fails to see how, as I brought up in earlier rounds, how corrupt the private industries are. As I showed how the railroads discriminated against it's custamors and how they as a whole were corrupt. In a Laissez-faire economy the US government could not be able to regulate the industries, which means no OSHA, no envirnmental protection, and to many trusts that stomp out the small buisness. You can see here that if we want this economy it means things like stated above and that the US would not be as smart, because kids would still be going to school and would be dying at a very young age. In Katrina the companies cared more about their profits then their custamers who suffered. You can see here that this point affects everyone in a very positive way and helps improve your health.3. Direct Legislation For the Senate my opponent says that we have lost great leaders by giving the vote to the average American, but this is false concidering that today we don't have Washington, FDR, or Lincoln as president we have Obama. We don't have Calhoun, Clay, and Webster, we have Thurmonds and Cruz. This is just what has happend to America. Our greatness has declined over the years, but not to democracy. Democracy is what this nation was founded on and that We the People have fought for it and have deserved it. Just because we have a few people screwing up the system does not mean that the whole barrel of Apples is ruined. Just look at Eugene V. Debs, he was a Socialist, but ran well and worked hard for the welfare of America. My opponent said that Term Limits were not part of the platform, but take a look at the initial link that I provided and you can see that it is indeed one of the key points. My opponent also says there is no impact, but I explained how it is helpful to America. There does not have to be a great impact like nuclear war, but as long as the result is good then it still works. Taxes My opponent is still ignoring my link that I provided you and showed how the taxes went to good uses for both income and corrperate and it shows you were it goes. We use this tax money for tons of things like Medicare, the military, vetrans benefits, agriculture, education, energy, science, transportation, and paying off our great national debt. This affects you and your community very much. You see that the positive affects here outweigh the negative by far. IndustriesMy opponent does not provide a lot of arguement for me to refute here so please bare with me. RailroadsMy opponent is clearly failing to see the impacts that I brought up. Things like this caused people to loose millions and go into debt. You see that if we didn't delay the economic crisis by the ICC, the economic crisis of 1893 would have happend a whole lot sooner and would have been more painful for the average American and we would not have the GreenBack today. Postal ServicesThough the USPS is loosing money it is still the best in efficentcy and is number one in the world there is still nothing to debate here. A vote for Pro means funding for the community, the military, controlling buisnesses, a safer work place, no child labor (in the US), a vote, and the US helping the average joe. A vote for Con means increased Global Warming, child death, less votes, and you with less money.