The Next Election

[Shaggy]

I don't exactly blame Reagan for the bad economy. I blame the cold war in general. Reagan had a large part in the deficit with the heavy build up of weapons, conventional, nuclear, and especially star wars. That deficit is one of the biggest factors in why we have trouble now.
The economy will never be great, not without running the extremes of popularity, and it will take a long time to fix. People will either really love the reforms or they will hate it and take up arms against the government, maybe not that bad But it is something that will take a long time and each adminstration has to follow in the last's footsteps and therein lies the problem. Even if Bush jr. serves two terms, and implements the appropriate reforms, he still has to bow to another president. Even if another Republican is voted in then he\she (trying to be PC here) probably won't follow the same path.
So, in my opinion, you really can't blame any one person for the economy.
But since Clinton took office the Democrats really piss me off, the politicians not my esteemed collegues here. There's just something that really rubs me the wrong way.

 

[Lynx]

Originally posted by Wedge009
I can't believe the Greens had something like a 4% swing towards them. Probably all the pot smokers wanting to make marijuana legal. :/

So Germany must be the country you dream of in your nightmares. They have a Democrate- GREEN coalition!

 

[pygmypiranha]

Originally posted by Lynx
So Germany must be the country you dream of in your nightmares. They have a Democrate- GREEN coalition!

Hehe...

*laughs*

Sometimes ya gotta love the way that other countries are more liberal than the US...

 

[Delance]

Sometimes ya gotta love the way that other countries are more liberal than the US... [/B]

Actually, on a lot of the rest of the world, like in Europe and Latin America, "liberal" means the exact opposite thing. On the US, liberal=left. On Europe and Latin America, liberal=right.

 

[Wedge009]

Actually I can't understand or care about the whole idea of politics being divided into 'left' or 'right'. It all sounds silly to me. It sounds like saying left-handers are better than right-handers.

Originally posted by Delance
It's odd the hear the non-american opinions about american eletctions. It has nothing to do with inferiority.

I know that, I was just thinking of the segregation drawing a line between the US and non-US citizens. It happens all the time anyway.

Originally posted by Lynx
So Germany must be the country you dream of in your nightmares. They have a Democrate- GREEN coalition!

Actually, I admire people who geniunely attempt sustainable economic development taking environmental impacts into account. It's just that the Australian Greens just aren't very... smart. IMHO, of course.

 

[Delance]

Originally posted by Wedge009
Actually I can't understand or care about the whole idea of politics being divided into 'left' or 'right'. It all sounds silly to me. It sounds like saying left-handers are better than right-handers.

Actually, “right” and “left” definitions go back to the French revolution. But currently is just a rhetoric tool to ostracize people and ideas they don't like.

I know that, I was just thinking of the segregation drawing a line between the US and non-US citizens. It happens all the time anyway..

What segregation? US citizens vote on the US. Brazilian citizens vote in Brazil. French citizens vote in France. See the pattern here?

Actually, I admire people who geniunely attempt sustainable economic development taking environmental impacts into account.

I agree with emphasis on the word genuinely.

 

[pygmypiranha]

"You know the world is going crazy when the most popular rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the Americas cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war"

These days things are just ... blah.

 

[Wedge009]

Originally posted by Delance
See the pattern here?

<sigh> I don't want to draw this out, but I said I only thought the original statement sounded ordinary. To me. Many times I hear things very differently to what they're meant. In this case, of course the segregation is obvious and necessary. It still happens in other cases too.

Originally posted by Delance
I agree with emphasis on the word genuinely.

Uh huh, that's why I put it in. I probably should have emphasised it.

Being 'green' for the sake of being green isn't very forward-thinking. Not that different from pacifism for the sake of 'peace' either.

 

[pygmypiranha]

Originally posted by Wedge009
<sigh> I don't want to draw this out, but I said I only thought the original statement sounded ordinary. To me. Many times I hear things very differently to what they're meant.

Let me quote Igon from GHOSTBUSTERS, "Text is dead."

 

[Wedge009]

Uh huh. So why are so many people apparently hooked on punching random letters on their mobile phones to each other?

 

[pygmypiranha]

Originally posted by Wedge009
Uh huh. So why are so many people apparently hooked on punching random letters on their mobile phones to each other?

Because they are stupid and have nothing better to do... take it from me, I don't own a stupid phone just for the purpose. BUT I guess I am being a little hipocritical because I use messengers all the time... Bah

 

[Wedge009]

Indeed.

BTW, please stop quoting me from the immediately previous post.

 

[pygmypiranha]

ohh... sorry to be a bother. Ugg... I'll just go hide in the corner now.

 

[Delance]

Originally posted by pygmypiranha
ohh... sorry to be a bother. Ugg... I'll just go hide in the corner now.

If only we could heard this on the presidential debates.

 

[pygmypiranha]

LOL