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| Jim Miller | Feb 25 2012, 03:29 PM Post #31 |
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My goal has never been to chase any Canadian away. My goal has always been to get the Canadians to mind their own business. Their input has no value. It is meaningless up until the time they get to vote here. Start a Canadian only section, discuss matters outside of our political arena, but stay out of our business. Canadian interloping is rude, insensitive and totally meaningless. It has no value and serves no purpose. |
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| Corky52 | Feb 25 2012, 04:15 PM Post #32 |
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Why don't we simply auction off voting rights, issue a limited (uneven) number of votes and sell them one to a customer to finance the government? If we instead of fighting the purchase of government. use the free market as a tool make the purchase necessitate the wise use of the purchased power due to it's cost, we might be better off.
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| Stoney | Feb 25 2012, 08:29 PM Post #33 |
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Absolutely not. I don't know of any time in history that any people had only 3/5 of a vote. This is apparently another fact that you would embrace that's not true. |
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| Stoney | Feb 25 2012, 08:41 PM Post #34 |
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I don't know about the 85%, probably a number you pulled out of thin air. But I would agree there are some who work hard from 8 to 5 and then going home to an evening of watching TV. I don't have anything against that. Its a choice most of us make, a compromise between leisure time and making a living, the ability to be free of the stress of responsibility and the threat and risk of failure. "And you want to take the franchise away from them." I merely assert that if its fair to base the contributions of people on their income its fair to base their ability to have a say in how those contributions are spent on their income is as fair. "Getting rich by hard work alone is a nonsensical idea." Right. It requires harder work, longer hours, smarter work, the ability to fail and get back up and try again. |
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| Sea Dog | Feb 25 2012, 08:49 PM Post #35 |
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For some reason, right wing Americans feel that it is their mandate to insult and annoy the citizens of other countries, friend or foe! Must be a version of the Father knows best syndrome. |
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| Jim Miller | Feb 25 2012, 09:33 PM Post #36 |
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Right-wing Americans are no business of yours, Sea. If we are so bad pack your bags, go home, and stay there.
Edited by Jim Miller, Feb 25 2012, 09:33 PM.
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| Chris | Feb 25 2012, 11:12 PM Post #37 |
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So is blood pressure the cause of your fact- and logic-free bluster, brewster? |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 26 2012, 06:55 AM Post #38 |
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I was referring to the 3/5 compromise, whereby the southern slave holders got to count their slaves as 3/5 of a person in the census to increase their congressional representation. I only believe and use the facts. Just the facts man. Can't say that for the Fox loonies though. |
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| Chris | Feb 26 2012, 06:56 AM Post #39 |
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And what's your fact got to do with voting? 3/5 compromise had nothing to do with voting. |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 26 2012, 07:01 AM Post #40 |
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And, who in the hell said it did? Certainly not me. I just proposed that welfare loafers get 3/5 of a vote. This was after someone else suggested limiting voting rights for example to white males who own property. Perhaps we should require some knowledge of politics and history to be able to vote. I doubt that would help though, as we have people who know better but still believe crap that isn't true because is fits their biased view of the world. |
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