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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
 Posted - 10/12/2007 : 21:10:35
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Read or listen to this Marketplace commentary:53 percent of Americans said their vote wasn't for sale, they wouldn't give it up for anything, not even a vaccine for cancer. Everyone else, however, had a price. Would you sell out, and what would it take?
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 10/12/2007 : 21:16:30 [Permalink]
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| I have a price. I would not let my wife or kids die of cancer just for the right to vote like these 53% surveyed. |
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 10/12/2007 : 21:24:03 [Permalink]
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| Also, in the last presidential election wasn't the percentage of voter age people that voted around 51%. In a city or state election voter turnout is around 10%. Why not at least sell your vote for $20 if you are not going to vote at all. I really doubt 53% of the population does not have a price. |
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2007 : 01:31:57 [Permalink]
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Depends. How much and from whom? I might take the bribe, then vote against the slimey bastard, and serves him right.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2007 : 05:17:24 [Permalink]
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| Our vote is currently worthless anyway.... |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 10/13/2007 : 05:29:30 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
Our vote is currently worthless anyway....
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The Soopremos saw to that in 2000, didn't they? And with Chief Justice Whitebread & Alito on board, they're even worse now.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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| Edited by - filthy on 10/13/2007 05:30:40 |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2007 : 05:37:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by pleco
Our vote is currently worthless anyway....
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The Soopremos saw to that in 2000, didn't they? And with Chief Justice Whitebread & Alito on board, they're even worse now.
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That, and because the system here guarantees a two party system where both parties are close to each other.
That being said, it appears our vote is only thing keep a full blown theocracy from being established, so at this time I would not trade my vote away for money. A cure for cancer, that's another thing.
Once the theocracy is fully established, they can have my vote, because my ass will be out of here. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2007 : 08:28:05 [Permalink]
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I'd give up my right to vote for the power to put whomever I want into office.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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