Posted on 01/27/2008 12:44:28 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
LOL... I love your optimism. If McCain picks Michael Steele as running mate, in 2012 we could have the first REAL black president, and he would be a great one.
He makes several good points.
The problem is, many are making the very same points, right here even, on FR.
Nobody’s listening!
Further, not many are offering alternatives to our elected representatives, except the DUmmies.
Why should they listen?
But, point made and taken.
Just so I can say I did offer an alternative, I will offer one.
If Bush & Co. really feel the need to give away the public’s money, they should give it to business. MANUFACTURING businesses in particular.
Manufacturing is where our economy begins, and the reason we are in dire straights now. Give them an incremented tax reduction for increased US based production, and legal US job creation...with stips. Such as, the jobs must be full time, classified as a permanent position, and equal to or greater than the median income for that type.
You wanna’ give away MY money? Fine! Make sure I have a return on it, ok? Do something that will put more more into the economy in the short term AND the long term. Invest in OUR Country, NOT in a foreign one.
Give U.S. a break, would ya’?
True, I mean they should be able to prove they’ve accessed the issues and to be fair, there are some that have limited access, and these people are voting by the gajillions.
I wish we could do that. It just enrages me that people don’t even try to find out a thing about these candidates and then have the nerve to say, “I never heard that about candidate X. Where did you get that?”
It’s absolutely maddening. I see the elderly daily, hospice nurse, and they all are so intent on voting, always asking about absentee ballots etc. Very tuned into their “duty” as they call it. If they knew which party was systematically destroying the greatest generation’s work and culture, I think we’d have a whole segement on our side, not just a few in the minority.
But the dark side will bus them across state lines to vote twice, register their dead spouses and pets and coddle them give them doughnuts talk sweet to them, but they don’t have the very first CLUE!
A friend of my son’s suggested that we tell people they can either vote in the American Idol contest or for president, but not both. He thinks that would keep a lot of dimwits out of the voting booth.
You’re probably right.
Frankly, I haven’t thought much about what comes next since Fred dropped out.
I’ve been in a bit of a funk over it, and have been busy with other things.
I certainly don’t want a McCain/Huckabee ticket!
Thank you for your reply.
That certainly would make for a very interesting campaign season!
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