mccracken
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Join Date: 1/16/2004
Posts: 262
Location: USA
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Posted: 5/3/2008 10:03:21 PM
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From my discussion in front of the water cooler and my speeches in Comm-112, I can tell that there is a decent amount of support for a balanced budget; however, from recent votes I can tell there are not.
It's evident from my research that there is a signifigant amount of "my vote only counts in the main party" mentality going on.
Have any of you been able to counter that mentality with anything besides, "you're a retard, change your mind."?
Check it out.. check it out... and then pick it out....... Then show me my dinero!!!
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grimmeissen
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Join Date: 1/14/2004
Posts: 1217
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Posted: 5/4/2008 9:51:31 PM
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I have found in my arguments that if you point out how someone goes against their personal views when they vote along party lines, you won't be able to argue much longer. Basically once it gets to the point where you explain to the person they are obviously a sheep, they won't listen to any other arguments you make.
I need to write a program that asks 100 questions about various issues, then after the user answers them all it tells them how much they match up to each political party. They have some crappy versions of this test online, but they basically tell you which candidate you vote for based on that candidate's perceived views. I'd like the test to come out with results similar to this...
Your views match the Republican Party Platform 70% of the time.
Your views match the actual historical efforts of the Republican Party 30% of the time.
Your views match the Democratic Party Platform...
And so on. People would be surprised at how low their parties score.
There are tons of so-called "conservative" people that I know who would probably say a balanced budget is a good idea. They might be surprised to know that part of the Keynsian neocon economics philosophy depends on debt being a certain portion of GDP. I guess some neocon calculated a long time ago that it's much easier to tax people through inflation than through direct taxes.
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