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NoMoreDems-Reps said:Maybe they are just perfecting ways of:
1) Screwing over Americans and
2) keeping Americans asking (Fighting)
for more REP-DEM rule?
Cause they sure as hell aren't trying to make
America a better place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
True, America is one of the best places in the
world, but America had SOOOOOO MUCH more
potential!!!!!!
But thanks to the REP-DEM Monopoly here we are
in the crapper!
Read the Declaration of Independence
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration.html
This two-party system really does suck. Reps and Dems are the flip sides of the same coin. There's not that much difference between the two. They both answer to the same class of people.Originally posted by NoMoreDems-Reps
Maybe the REPS&DEMS are just perfecting ways of:
1) Screwing over Americans and
2) keeping Americans asking (Fighting)
for more REP-DEM rule?
Cause they sure as hell aren't trying to make
America a better place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
True, America is one of the best places in the
world, but America had SOOOOOO MUCH more
potential!!!!!!
But thanks to the REP-DEM Monopoly here we are
in the crapper!
ravens24 said:interesting..hmmmm. I need to think about that more. But thats a great idea..having more parties to serve the needs of more people. It's hard to get started unless some big name starts it. Hmm. interesting guys. cool
All you do is complain about the post. Is this because you have absolutely nothing to bring to the table?Originally posted by KCConservative:
This guy has posted this exact thread all over debate politics.com. Let's clean his act up.
PerryLogan said:If you're going to talk about Democrats, it might be nice to know something about them.
Here are a few things the Democrats have done for you:
Democrats gave us Social Security (the most successful government program ever)
Democrats gave us civil rights legislation
Democrats gave us Medicare
Democrats gave us seatbelts & airbags
Democrats gave us public broadcasting
Democrats gave us the Freedom of Information Act
Democrats gave us environmental laws
Democrats gave us the Americans with Disabilities Act
Democrats gave us workplace safety laws
Democrats gave us food safety laws
Democrats gave us food labeling laws
Democrats gave us the GI Bill
Democrats gave us low-income housing
Democrats gave us the Tennessee Valley Project
Democrats gave us the Peace Corps
Democrats gave us the longest period of economic expansion in history (under Bill Clinton)
Democrats gave us the lowest infant mortality rate in history. (It's going up now, of course)
& a few more:
Democrats gave us consumer protection laws
Democrats gave us improved air quality
Democrats gave us the internet
Democrats gave us the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (Republicans hate this kind of stuff; they're very mean)
Democrats gave us Affirmative Action (which 64% of Americans favor. Don't listen to the right-wing disinformation machine: affirmative action has helped the income, promotion and labor force participation rates of both women and minorities. That's why Republicans hate it. If it hadn't worked, they wouldn't mind.)
Democrats promote space exploration
Democrats gave us the Family & Medical Leave Act
Democrats gave us the Consumer Product Safety Commission
Democrats cleaned up the Great Lakes (did so!)
Democrats protect endangered species
Democrats got a ban on CFC's, DDT, PCB's, & leaded gasoline (plus who knows what other toxic stuff we & our kids would still be enjoying--if Republicans had always ruled)
Democrats gave us rural electrification
Democrats got you public schooling
Democrats gave us the National Weather Service
Democrats gave us truth-in-advertising laws
Democrats gave us the Morrill Land Grant Act (this act is the reason nearly every state has a large public university)
Democrats gave us public universities (Democrats are less afraid of people getting educated than Republicans are)
Democrats promote & fund scientific research
Democrats gave us guaranteed bank deposits
Democrats helped women get the vote (the Republicans forestalled it until the 1920's; bad Republicans!)
Democrats passed child-labor laws
Democrats got us Meals on Wheels
Democrats promote scientific & technological research
Democrats promote student financial aid
Democrats promote child immunizations (which reached record levels under the Clinton Administration)
Democrats make the poverty rate go down (Check it out: the New Deal reduced America's poverty rate from over 50% to less than 20%)
Democrats lower the crime rate (it dropped for 8 successive years under Clinton--the longest continuous drop on record; what can I say?)
Democrats fought discrimination (The Republicans supported it: remember?)
Democrats help develop alternative energy sources (whereas the Republicans plan to take us down with the dinosaurs)
Democrats control immigration (better than Republicans; Bill Clinton exported more illegals than any President ever)
Democrats created special education programs, handicapped education programs, job retraining programs, etc., etc. (Republicans destroy same, capice?)
Democrats improve the educational system (whereas Republicans sell it down the river)
Democrats protect you from malignant corporations (Republicans feed you to them)
& a few more things the Democrats have done for America:
The GNP grows more under Democrats (thought you might like to know)
Democrats lowered the teen birth rate (under Clinton, to its lowest rate in 60 years)
Democrats deactivated more than 1,700 nuclear warheads from the former Soviet Union (Clinton again. Thank you, Bill!)
Democrats gave us the highest home ownership rate in American history (Clinton again)
Democrats converted the largest budget deficit in American history into the largest surplus (which GWB has incredibly turned back into the biggest deficit AGAIN!)
Democrats gave us smaller government (That's right! The Federal government grows much less under Democrats)
Democrats reduce federal spending (to the lowest level since 1966 under the last elected President)
Democrats gave us the most exports ever (under Clinton)
Democrats can get the FDA working again (do not take any drugs approved under this administration; it's that bad)
Democrats would represent most people (most people want the liberal things--environmentalism, gun control, international cooperation, less torture; Republicans, by contrast, want things that most Americans hate)
Democrats can fix this gross income-inequality thing (income equality correlates significantly with mortality rates, crime, poor educational outcomes, substance abuse, etc.)
Democrats are not so into crackpot science & crackpot stats (science backs up the Democrats; junk science backs up the Right)
Democrats will give us a health-care system (think about it; the lifespans of Canadians are now 2 years more than ours--because of their healthcare system)
The African-American poverty rates dropped to their lowest levels EVER under the last Democratic administration.
The poverty rate for single mothers reached its lowest level EVER under Clinton.
RightatNYU said:Awesome idea. Now go out and get someone else elected.
PS what the hell does the DoI have to do with ANYthing?
Funny stuff, billo. Actually, I remember getting a 3 day suspension for posting the exact paragraph into multiple threads, as I was unaware of the rule on such a practice. I was hoping to avoid that happening to this guy.Billo_Really said:All you do is complain about the post. Is this because you have absolutely nothing to bring to the table?
I thought so.
NoMoreDems-Reps said:The D o I , Shows :
1) Our forefathers were Independents!
mnpollock said:This may not be ENTIRELY on topic but I always thought that it would help relieve some of the partisanship if we change the way the Executive branch is elected. I think that it would help to force our leaders to work together if we took the two candidates with the most votes during the presidetial election and made them the president and vice president. The one with the most votes being president of course. That way there would always be checks and balances even in the executive branch. What is everybody's opinion on this idea?
It may not help create a new party but it might prevent SOME not ALL of the corruption we are seeing. Or then again it might just screw everything up... don't know untill you try I guess.
mnpollock said:Oh I totally agree. We should deffinitely get rid of the EC. In this day and age there really isn't any benefit in keeping it. It was originally designed to protect the farmers and pioneers that chose to settle away from the original colonies, but as we can clearly see, there is no such demographic anymore. Even the smaller states still have representatives in the senate and the house. But the smaller states should only have as much sway as their populous deserves. 1 person, 1 vote. Plus that way we wouldnt' ever have to hear this argument about a president that lost the popular vote but won the EC.
I was confused about the way your post was worded. Are you in favor of the proposed method or against? It seemed that you were against but then came back with the benifits it would allow in letting the Independents have a fair shot at the race. Please clarify.
Connecticutter said:If I am to understand you correctly, in your proposal, there would be no Electoral College and each individual would have a single vote. Then, the top two vote getters would win the presidency and vice presidency. Is that correct?
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