Look up the word Republic. A Republic is a "representative democracy". The representation is there by means of individual state representatives. So every state has it's own representatives to vote on behalf of the people of the local level that elected them.
Of those votes the majority rules. It doesn't mean I don't care about everybody just because I agree with changes... it just means we disagree on the best policy.
I don't know if you're a racist or not. If you said something I felt was racist I might have drawn a conclusion... I'm not calling you a racist now and I'm not going back over every thread to see what you said in the past.
We just see things differently. I don't know your exact political position... maybe Libertarian? But being as you often speak up for the Pubbies over the Dems I just feel it's important to note from my side of the fence I and I think a lot of people right now were much more afraid of the Republicans taking power away from the people... or at the very least giving extra power to the rich & powerful.
Can't we possibly wait and see how things progress in this new year before we get too upset? Just see if it's not really as bad as you project.
See this is why I come down on you sometimes. You go over the top. President Obama is a good intellegent human being... he's an American... he's a father. No one is handing out posion... I wouldn't even say Bush handed out poison.
I have no idea where you get this at but you are mistaken. But regardless of that I'm not against a regulated Capitalist system. Like I posted and historian will confirm completely unchecked Capitalism is not a good thing and was proven not a good thing right here in America with the Robber Barons and monopolies..
Dude I'm tired of talking about it... it was all wrong. The good thing is we will now see rapid improvements & changes in policy that I think will be extremely helpful for a plethora of reasons.
Give it a chance. We need to be more energy independent and we know pollution is not a good thing. We can find compromises and still move forward for the long term betterment.
But that's not an accurate or parallel analogy. Smoking does no one any good and has documented detrimental heath effects on both the smoker and those around the smoker.
Not the same with sports. People do get injured but they are participating in the healthy enjoyment of something... in fact even gaining good health benefits from the exercise.
Not even the same with alcohol... or even pot. People that aren't alcoholics actually receive relaxation and in some cases heart health benefits from low to moderate drinking. Certain patients actually get real proven medical benefits from pot.
Smoking has not one redeeming feature. It's merely an unhealthy habit that feeds it's own unhealthy habit. So I could care less about the tax they put on it.
If our elected representatives vote to spend it then we have to pay for it. I could go in and easily cut things that from my perspective are over expenditures that you might want to keep and visa versa.
The problem is in essence the type of government we have believe it or not. All politics is local. The Republican Senator trying to get money for his district on a bridge to nowhere is competing with the Democratic Senator that wants to bring money back to his district for Food Stamps or something.
It's set up this way but I hope with a little pulling together President Obama can help us see that we need to work together on some things.
I personally believe we are in no position to give the rest of the world the amounts of money we do. I know our military can be run more efficiently. I know Social Security & Medicare are probably the two most important government programs... and I know we can do something to improve our healthcare system.
Sure I do... Provide for the common defence and promote the general Welfare. I care about that. Has nothing at all to do with Nation Building or playing World police... even Libertarian Ron Paul was highly outspoken on this.
Let's be kind and work together for this first year and I think you will be surprised what good we can accomplish!
