Do You Have Faith In America's Capital Markets?

Exactimento!  And an old man who, when he was in the military, bombed his own aircraft carrier and lasted less than 24 hours in combat before being captures (that's the sum total of his entire combat experience).  This doofus picked Sarah Palin for VP and Phil Gramm as his ECONned advisor....'nuff said on that score.

Can Arnold Schwarzenegger be the hero that saves the day! Change the law and let an Austrian be prezident of the US of A! Change the law so that people from Austria and Kenya can be prezident! Amnesty baby!

welcome back CB

no doubt that idiots who cannot articulate the trade-offs of their vote(s) have any right to vote on those issues.

very Jeffersonian, the 'prove your understanding' concept of voting rights.

i toy with the concept of weighting votes with their relative "contribution" (taxes), which would really confuse the tax scheisters... they'd have to actually pay for their say (i know, i know, lobbyists aren't free). but the welfare-state recipients wouldn't be able to vote themselves another 'pay raise', and that's appealing.

but allowing everyone the right to earn the privilege sounds great, until the folks we earn it from tweak the test enough to make it impossible for everyone but their friends. witness that when they had tests in the deep south to prove credence to vote. there were two tests... a black version and a white version.

it would be great to have a national registry of retards. it'd be a pretty big book, tho'

"You may have noticed that there's one thing I don't complain about: Politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says, "They suck". But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. No, they come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and they're elected by American voters. This is the best we can do, folks. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.

....I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, "If you don't vote, you have no right to complain", but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain.

I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created."

Typical male comment....mine is bigger than yours.....well, lets just see if your "ability" is bigger than my ability. ; )

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