One issue in the United States concerns Social Security and I'm totally convinced that the system needs to be reformed to something privately controlled by individuals. Many other countries have had real success with similar reforms and yet many people resist those same reforms here citing certain financial problems that will occur in the short term. They don't care that people will get more for their money in the long term if the system were changed however.

In terms of this threads topic, I'm personally for government spending that reduces carbon emissions in ways that are purely positive. Such as encouraging more efficient technologies and nuclear power. However, some of the solutions, like ethanol fuel, actually don't help anybody (except maybe corn farmers) and that's even assuming that carbon emissions are a truly deadly threat (which is a hypothesis that I currently lean away from myself).