hardflip
Mindfield
Premium
join:2002-02-28
Andover, MA
|  $$$$$
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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TheWickerMan
join:2002-04-09
Enola, PA
| 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.  |
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xdeadhead
220, 221, Whatever It Takes.
Premium
join:2000-11-08
Mechanicsburg, PA | reply to hardflip
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 |
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Corrector
@shh.fi | reply to TheWickerMan
>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.
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Buggy
join:2000-10-24
Tampa, FL | said by Corrector:
and regarded slaves as half-humans.
I thought it was 2/3 ?? |
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Changing Definitions
@atl-ga.ds
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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. |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | reply to Corrector
Oh how we've shifted. |
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