Re: $$$$$ in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r4117503 en Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:56:32 EDT Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:56:32 EDT Re: $$$$$ http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,4117503 Karl Bode : Oh how we've shifted.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,4117503 Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:05:22 EDT Re: $$$$$ http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3926801 anon : It has always been one person, one vote. What changed is our concept of "person". When originally spoken, it was understood that a Person was (generally) a white land-owning male. Now, we use the broader definition of Person. In fact, they probably would have said one Citizen, one vote back then, which would have made the point clearer, I suppose.

The original point is still valid in any case. One person has become one dollar, and a very small % of the people have a very large % of the dollars.

We stopped being a Republic (we were never a Democracy) some time ago.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3926801 Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:38:58 EDT Re: $$$$$ http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3925492 Buggy :
said by Corrector:
and regarded slaves as half-humans.
I thought it was 2/3 ?? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3925492 Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:23:42 EDT Re: $$$$$ http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3922340 anon : >Our country was founded on a very simple but fair idea -- One person, one vote.

Wrong. The country never allowed non-whites to vote until at least a century later, and regarded slaves as half-humans.

Corrector]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3922340 Wed, 24 Jul 2002 03:22:58 EDT Re: $$$$$ http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3874016 xdeadhead : and they all took turns jackin each other off and kissing each others ass......much of the same goes on everyday in washington dc.
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"so you say you want revolution?" -Lennon/McCartney]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3874016 Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:33:41 EDT Re: $$$$$ http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3871539 TheWickerMan : Very sad. Our country was founded on a very simple but fair idea -- One person, one vote. Somewhere along the line, it became "One dollar, one vote." And let's face it, these big companies have a lot more dollars/votes than we do. Power of the people, R.I.P. :(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3871539 Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:46:03 EDT $$$$$ http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3869893 hardflip : Wonder how much of a campaign donation it took to have a seat at the table?

The horrible irony in this is that the voter is so important that they are left out. Politicians need campaign funds to influence votes and businesses take advantage of this inorder to influence the laws that affect their business. The campaign funds become so important, a deficit in spending can lose an election, that the businesses get the politicians focus over voters.
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