OK, it's time to vote

I think a good analogy Rod is if you went out and borrowed large amounts of money and blew it on really stupid stuff.

 

In case you didn't know where you should be voting today....

http://your****ingpollingplace.com/

 

And therein lies the problem. This two party system needs to die out. If 49% loses the vote, it loses its voice and 51% gains total control. Theres no equality.

 

I am looking forward to the expected Republican majority House of Representatives to take the first step by "refudiating" and repealing Medicare Part D, and its many layers of inefficient costing.

 

Dear Swellinfo Staff,
I've supported your website for many a year by coming to this site religiously, as well as spreading the word to others about how much better this one is than its competitors. However, today I met something on your site which has disgusted me to no end.So much so that I was inclined to finally create a screen name here... You'd really accept Christie O'Donnell's money for campaign ads on your site? Wow.

So, henceforth, my script blocking software will be removing your ads from my viewing. As a result me looking at your website will no longer generate hits for your ads and thus will decrease your income from advertisers (however small of a change that may be). I do this regularly on other websites, but I figured I'd support your site as long as you guys didn't turn into complete boners, but that's all in the past now.

I suggest all of you download Adblock Plus for firefox and do the same.

 

Certainly radical probably unconstitutional...wouldnt that disenfranchise about 90% of the population who arent needed in the military as it is currently sized? Or are you also proposing a massively larger military?

 

That sign from the rally about taxes rally sums up the stupidity taking palce there. "I don't like taxes but I do like roads and cops and schools so I pay them anyway" or something to that effect. Do you like paying over $300,000 dollars to help people in Siberia communicate more effectively with their government (that's in Russia for the Geography challenged)? Well your taxes will be paying for it (plus interest) thanks to the Dems and their "stimulus" bill. No one is calling for funding to be cut to police departments and roads, typical hippie BS

 

Well you'd have to change the constitution smarty pants

The way I see it is that if you serve your country you appreciate and your vote would mean more than just a popularity contest. How about a civilian service corp in addition to the military?

 

while i think most of the roads in my town are alright we have our share of potholes, and rough roads. our town takes in a fortune from the beach badges every year. i am pretty sure we got some of the most expensive badges too. i don't know much about the schools here, because i don't have children, but sometimes you don't mind paying some high property taxes if the schools, police, and roads are adequate. in some towns up in north jersey i see ridiculously high property taxes like $14k grand a year. the roads are crappy, potholes everywhere, sub par schools, garbage police force. i did a job for a woman this past summer she lives in elizabeth which is basically a ghetto, and pays $12k grand a year just in property taxes. the city is scummy, the streets are enough to bust a ball joint on, it's a joke. we've been having this property tax crisis for a while now. i always wondered why so many older people packed it up, and relocated to florida. back in the 80s when $1500-$2000 a year was a lot of money for property taxes all the retirees were packing it up, and moving to florida. they still are. a 65+ year old couple who takes in $1500 a month between the two of them just with their social security checks who had no retirement savings, and have no mortgage owed on their homes can't afford $8000 a year property taxes. that averages out to having to put aside at least $650+ a month just to pay their property taxes in june, and december. take that away they are left with $850 bucks a month to live on some of them. the price of food has gone sky high, but they don't consider that into the cost of living, prescriptions, car insurance, gas, electric, water, cable, phone, money for medicare co pays. some of them are being taxed to death on homes they have owned for 50 years also. it's gotta stop sometime.

also the democrats that everyone thinks are the messiah wanna tax everyone, the supposed peoples party just takes all your money, and what they can't get they just print. when is it gonna stop? social security hasn't gotten a raise in two years since the messiah obama has been on office. i couldn't stand bush. he made a mess in iraq, people were thick enough to actually vote him in a second term. which is funny, because they voted obama, but they were more pissed with what bush did in his first term than in his second, but still gave him a second term. i can't stand christine o donnell either. i don't live in delaware, but i already don't like her, nor sarah palin, or any of those dinbats nor the freedom loving tea party who want less government interference, but only as long as it coincides with their stances. i can't stand any of them either. i don't like them anymore than i like obama, but i think it's comical people think he's a savior.

 

Not sure what having served in the military adds in making a more moral, qualified voter. For example, take this former Army sergeant major, the highest-ranking enlisted soldier, arrested last week after he was accused of ramming his vehicle into a commuter he had picked up from an HOV "slug line." Gene C. McKinney, 59, of Manassas was charged with attempted malicious wounding in the incident.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/01/AR2010110105450_pf.html

Or take the slugs that blatantly killed and raped Iraqi civilians.

Not to mention... the DOD is the largest and most complete socialist enterprise in the USA. Then there is the military weapons acquisition system and operational bureaucracy that self perpetuates itself.

 

Basically if you put your life on the line for your country you deserve a larger say in it's direction. And Rod you should know there are bad apples in every batch

 

Go get educated on display ad exchanges before posting things you know nothing about. www.google.com/doubleclick because that is why/how you saw the ad, swellinfo didn't directly have anything to do with it.

 

People put their lives on the line every day that are not in the military.

 

ok, then add police and firemen. Matt, now that the election is over, can we lock these threads and get back to surfing?

 

****************************** Great post dude! Love the signs, you must have ridden in to the Restore Sanity Rally! Wish I had been there.

 

Another analogy is giving out be tax cut checks that don't stimulate the economy and end up borrowing money to do it.

Have to skin the cat on both sides in this instance.

Not sure about others but I have seen first hand where stimulus recovery act money has gone towards paving roads, refurbishing school system's HVAC and replaced roofs, made improvements at commuter train stations, and made water/sewer repairs and maintenance.

 

George Bush "I screwed you all! But thanks for blaming it on the black guy"

 

Well, I was able to vote for Prop 19 yesterday, the state legalization of Marijuana, although it was a poorly written prop and was doomed to fail, it was still a monumental day.