Posted on 08/03/2004 9:45:01 AM PDT by dvan
2 TOUGH QUESTIONS
Question 1: If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.
Question 2: It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three candidates.
Candidate A. Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologist. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day
Candidate B. He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.
Candidate C. He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.Which of these candidates would be your choice?
Decide first... no peeking, then scroll down for the response.
Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question:
If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.
Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.
Wait till you see the end of this note! Keep reading...
Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember: Amateurs...built the ark. Professionals...built the Titanic
And Finally, can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
* 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year...
Can you guess which organization this is?
Give up yet?
It's my opinion that we'd know a little bit more than the "facts" presented about each before having to make a choice...LOL! Take your word those are in fact facts, but I don't tend to have a lot of trust in tee-totalers or vegetarians, just on general principle...not that I'd hold it against them, aside from eying them askance...
I saw no names in your #7. It didn't appear that you were talking about specific persons....it looked like you were talking about politicians/govt in general.
"Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler."
Candidate A prodded the Japanese into attacking us and was caught with his pants down at Pearl Harbor. He consented to giving away into Soviet Slavery the eastern half of Europe we were ostensibly going to war (or at least Britain was) to free from NAZI serfdom. And he ran a government infiltrated by communist agents.
Candidate B actively worked to involve Britain in WW1, helping to make it a world war, and lead to the rise of Candidate C, about whom we all know too much already.
What would you propose doing to stop it?
???
Even though you are probably not the first person to be disenchanted by politicians...Good luck in getting all this to happen.
Even in 1848, Congressmen were already spending all their time in D.C. -- as in Abraham Lincoln's case. His wife went home to Springfield and couldn't talk him into doing likewise while the committees were meeting and debate continued on the floor of the House.
He basically stayed there the whole two years, and she was very disappointed.
The other side of the coin was, the vast majority of representatives served a single term and returned home, and nobody in official Washington knew or cared who they were.
Yes, but how does one tell a bad politician from a good? Many think Kerry is bad, and many think Bush is bad. How do you tell what is a lie? How do you get salary limits, when they vote their own raises? All this is good, but I don't think it will happen.
That is all great...assuming you are correct in your thinking and beliefs.
It sounds as though you would have only one party. Who determines who is thrown out of office, and who stays? What happens if people vote for someone you don't think deserves to be elected?
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