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Post by ♥Ms J®♥ on Jun 7, 2007 15:26:18 GMT -5
I did want to add that welfare is the WORST thing in America IMO. It's not a hand up, it's a hand out and people use it as such. Shit since there is no time limit on that shit might as well be a lazy ass and just use use use the system (sorry I know this one bitch who just keeps popping out kids and is on welfare and has no job and sends her kids all to daycare which the government pays for...meaning me technically with my tax dollars from MY job).... Sorry I just don't feel people should get shit for free all the time....life is HARD and it sucks but if you work it, you can win
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Post by ndfanforever on Jul 13, 2007 11:50:28 GMT -5
The welfare system needs MAJOR reforms. I would get so pissed off when I worked for a supermarket because people would come in there with their EBT card (A debit card with food stamps and cash) and buy cigarettes and lottery tickets. Far too many people take advantage of the system.
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Post by Volk on Jul 26, 2007 18:09:59 GMT -5
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Post by ♥Ms J®♥ on Jul 26, 2007 23:14:25 GMT -5
Has anyone heard anything on Ron Paul? www.ronpaul2008.com/ I actually like his idea's. I don't think he's really got a chance though because he gets no media attention but there is a huge following online
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Post by tetherednchained on Jul 26, 2007 23:31:02 GMT -5
Has anyone heard anything on Ron Paul? www.ronpaul2008.com/ I actually like his idea's. I don't think he's really got a chance though because he gets no media attention but there is a huge following online Yes I have been following him. I agree with a lot of what he has to say too. A few issues I disagree with but overall I like him. Go here for his voting record: www.ontheissues.org/TX/Ron_Paul.htmThis is the best political website ever for looking up info about politicians. www.issues2000.org/default.htm
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Post by tetherednchained on Jul 26, 2007 23:43:55 GMT -5
Wish I could get the link to work because we are agreeing on something here. I know, there is a first for everything. lol
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Post by ♥Ms J®♥ on Jul 28, 2007 1:39:19 GMT -5
The sad thing is with registering independent, is that you can't vote in the primaries. Most people running are something else than what they are registered as. Ron Paul is a registered Republican but he's really a libertarian. I just think that American's are too scared to elect someone who isn't Republican or Democrat...
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Post by tetherednchained on Jul 28, 2007 2:04:11 GMT -5
I think they are afraid of throwing away a vote. Thats my problem. I could vote for him but I just cant stand any of the Democrats at the moment.
Why would I vote for someone that stands no chance at winning? If I do that it is a vote for the person I really, really don't want in.
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Post by Madame Shimmy on Aug 11, 2007 18:03:12 GMT -5
I'm really scared to vote during our next presidental elections. It seems anyway we go it will be history in the making. I like the idea of a female president but I'm not to keen on Hilary, and all the other schmoos don't seem to appetizing either. What are we to do in this predicament? No matter what happens, whoever gets the winning votes, they have their work cut out for them in trying to mend the worlds view on America and cleaning up the Iraq mess. I have to say I'm in favor of Romney on the Iraq issue and I like Obama on the healthcare issue. I don't like anyone on immigration. I don't know what to do when elections roll around.
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Post by ♥Ms J®♥ on Aug 18, 2007 0:27:13 GMT -5
I think this is the earliest that campaigns are really heating up. I think i'm coming to that age where politics are actually interesting
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 30, 2007 0:13:21 GMT -5
I was hoping that Chuck Hagel (Republican Senator) would run for President. But he recently announced that he's retiring from political life after his term in the senate ends.
I'm a Democrat, and in Hagel I saw the potential for a significant block of Democrats choosing to vote for Hagel (Hagel Democrats) in the way that a significant block of Democrats voted for Ronald Reagan back in the '80s (Regan Democrats).
I think our country is in dire need of a President who would truly have a 'moderating' influence upon the population of this country, like President Gerald Ford. And in Chuck Hagel, I saw that 'moderating' energy in this man.
I think from here till election day, if it's smooth sailing for Hillary (if no scandals happen to her), Hillary Clinton will become our next President. I have total confidence in Hillary becoming our next President. I think Hillary will be every bit as competent a leader for our country as Margaret Thacher was for Great Britain.
I just regret that, once again, we're going to be electing into office a President who is going to be as politically devisive in Washington politics as George W. Bush and William J. Clinton have been, ... and this political gridlock in Washington is going to continue under the Presidency of Hillary R. Clinton.
Our country is in dire need of a Gerald Ford kind of Presidency today; a President who is truly "a uniter, not a divider."
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Post by Ass Turkey on Oct 13, 2007 21:42:10 GMT -5
I am trying to decide, I really don't Obama, his views bother me. I have researched him and there isnt' enough I agree with him on. I will be losing my virginity in this vote, so I am nervous and excited at the sametime. I know my views and I know no one really matches up with them. Personally, in the mounds of research I have been doing Hillary has my vote
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Post by Dance Away on Nov 12, 2007 9:03:54 GMT -5
Here in the state of Maine, it appears that there's a very disturbing, very shameful, and very disheartening amount of racism being expressed toward native American Indians in this state. On November 6, there was a statewide referendum vote on a question of whether or not to allow the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Tribe in Washington County (I live in Washington County) to build a racetrack casino (a "racino") in Calais (Calais is a Maine town on the Canadian border). The Passamaquoddy Tribe has been seeking to develop a casino/racino for the past 15 years now. Mainers voted against allowing the Passamaquoddy Tribe to build a racino. This after Mainers voted in 2003 to allow a Pennsylvania gaming company (Penn National Gaming, Inc.) to come to Bangor to build a racino ("Hollywood Slots") that's currently under construction. The main reason I got off my ass to go vote this year was for that Indian racino referendum (there were four other referendum questions on the ballot). I've never set foot into a casino before. I'm not a lottery ticket buyer. I'm not a gambling man. BUT I AM THIS... For three centuries now, the white man has been telling the native American Indian what he can and what he can't do. For Christ's sake, when is the white man going to stop treating the American Indian like this?!!! LET THEM HAVE THEIR CASINO!!! I am a white man, and I'm profoundly embarrassed, profoundly ashamed, and profoundly troubled by the racism that's being revealed to be in the heart of Mainers who have voted against the Passamaquoddy Tribe's dream, hope, and aspirations of building a racino in Washington County, Maine. Maine tribe ponders defeat www.casinocitytimes.com/news/article.cfm?contentID=169684Tribe questions casino's 'no-go' morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4451733.htmlAnti-gambling groups seek to ban slots in Maine bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=156308&zoneid=500
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Post by Ass Turkey on Nov 12, 2007 12:49:20 GMT -5
We are one of only a few nations that have privatized and non-government controlled healthcare. We are also one of very few nations that you choose healthcare or food during a tight month.
I also believe that everybody should read the book "Democracy Matters" by: Cornel West. The book is a haunting chilling look at modern american government.
I also would love to toss in a view on the topic of gay marriage but I think my view goes without saying.
As for hate speech, I do think we drowning in political correctness, until it hits home. Then, I am the first to think the person doing the talking should be burnt at the stake. However, in reality hate speech should be limited to a personal level not national. Yes, national laws should be written about certain aspects of hate speech that punishable by law. I do not think someone should be punished for a generally at a group with no intentions towards a specific person or a slip of the tongue. Until the asshole dropped out I had to hear this one girl screaming towards me everyday. No one would do a thing about it in the administration of the school. So, during lunch I had ham chunks thrown at me, I had to hear her screaming "Cock sucker, Cum guzzler, Faggot, Queer!" and a lot more. I think I should have been able to fall back on some sort of hate speech law. When someone is doing that to you personally and you are the minority and you are powerless to stop them, unless you go at it physically, in which case you would get charged with assault. It made me feel weak and that should be against law and in logic you'd think it is but no, there was nothing that could be done legally we consulted a lawyer and the school wouldn't do anything, we talked to the asst. principal, principal, even asst. super intendant. She dropped out about three weeks into the hell that she put me through. There is also the clause that messing with a gay hitting a gay isn't a hate crime. It is sitting there as a bill passed by both houses and bush says he is going to veto it. A bill adding homosexuals to the hate crimes list and more or less labeling homosexuals as an official minority.
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Post by hotroots on Nov 12, 2007 14:15:44 GMT -5
that site 'on the issues' is cool. i LOVE www.selectsmart.com/president/2008.html. obviously not something to go on alone, but it's an excellent start at really figuring out your candidates. and pretty much all of select smart is kidna fun, haha. i agree, a uniting president is the thing this country needs. bush (not to bush bash too much more, would get a litle redundant, eh?) never gave a shit about uniting this country. really seems he just wants to tear it apart more and more (that or he's just too dumb in his abilities to simply talk to his own constituents). i'm a registered democrat, but only cuz i was trying to keep bush (and the other republicans, haha) outta office. sorry, i usually identify more with independent parties, but a lot of the prominent republican figures lately seem to be on the christian coalition bandwagon, and anyone on that side of things can just bite me. as for this election, though, i'd love it if rudy got the republican nomination (never gonna happen, i know). i think he's a great moderate. and while i do tend to like hillary for the most part, not sure if she has that uniting factor. i think barack could have that, and i like him a lot.
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Post by ♥Ms J®♥ on Nov 13, 2007 20:32:59 GMT -5
For me, I would like to see America go back to the way it was with the founding fathers. Not the government running everything and "helping" it's citizens out. Welfare should be abolished...it's not a help up it's a hand out. We also need to end this "endless" war. It is useless to fight a war against an Ideology, or a tactic. We should be going to war with an actual country, not rouge individuals. Not to mention the TRILLIONS of dollars it has cost us/China. All those people running for president want it to keep going, at least for a few more years....except for one. Ron Paul. I like him
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Post by Dance Away on Nov 13, 2007 23:51:55 GMT -5
For me, I would like to see America go back to the way it was with the founding fathers. Not the government running everything and "helping" it's citizens out. Welfare should be abolished...it's not a help up it's a hand out. We also need to end this "endless" war. It is useless to fight a war against an Ideology, or a tactic. We should be going to war with an actual country, not rouge individuals. Not to mention the TRILLIONS of dollars it has cost us/China. All those people running for president want it to keep going, at least for a few more years....except for one. Ron Paul. I like him But there are some things our government is currently farming out to private business that is turning out to be ethically problematic in practice. And topping that list is "Blackwater." Military operations and intelligence gathering operations should only be conducted by the government; not by a private business interest. Here is the U.S., we are either going to allow the "Blackwater" privatization phenomenon of our military operations to grow larger, or we're going to re-instate the draft and start building up our government-run military. I hope to God we soon choose to do the latter, because a draft military will be a military consisting of a population of critically-thinking people who will be willing to present the tough questions to their civilian bosses in Washington without giving a damn as to whether or not a tough critically-thinking question asked is going to jeopardize one's career standing in the military ... because that draftee asking tough critically-thinking question is not at all interested in pursuing a career in the military.
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Post by ♥Ms J®♥ on Nov 14, 2007 9:49:03 GMT -5
Well if we weren't at "war" we wouldn't need things like blackwater would we...
Yes there are certain things that should stay government run, but there are many more that the government needs to stay the hell out of.
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Post by Dance Away on Nov 14, 2007 12:00:54 GMT -5
Well if we weren't at "war" we wouldn't need things like blackwater would we... If we had compulsory military service in the U.S., there'd be no need for Blackwater cuz the manpower in our military would be three times the size it is now. And we might not have invaded Iraq cuz Washington politicians with their own sons and daughters in a compulsory military service program would have then been very motivated to ask tough critically-thinking questions about the rationale of our perceived-to-be Christian army invading and occupying a Muslim country.
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Post by Ass Turkey on Nov 14, 2007 15:53:12 GMT -5
Uh...no. To mandate everybody serves in the military is absurd, for a lot of reasons.
Reason one: This is America we have rights and we have choices.
Reason two: Didn't we learn what happens when people that don't back a war and are forced into it?
Reason three: Who are we leaving out of this mandatory military service? You can't seriously expect EVERY able bodied person in the country to have to par take in the country, we would eventually see our birthrate and total population slowly diminish. The average age of death would drop, because so many people serving in war more would die..the more on the battlefield the more targets for the enemy. So how do you know who isn't going to this. Not to mention let's say 18-25 as the age you are on call and maybe those first two years are ones you are being trained etc. So at war time we lose a gigantic part of the population?
Reason three: Does Canada really need the population boost?
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