Why should I stay a republican?

[Vesayen]

Give me a few minutes to dig something up.... I found this hard to chew the first time I heard it too, but it was from a lecture given by an employee of the federal trade commision.

Some in the federal trade commision are pretty pissed, and thats understandible. Clothes made in slave conditions on the Marianas get the tag "made in America".

I was very pissed off when I first learned this, as I had been making a dedicated effort for years to buy American clothes whenever possible and activley avoided all the worst abusers in the textile industry.

Even without the Marianas...(finding a good link now), corruption in the Republican party, is rampant.

How can anyone support a party which does not support its voters interests, but corporations who finance their elections?

[chequita guevara]

The treaty which joined the Marianians to the United States prohibbited our labor protection laws from being in force there until ten years after annexaction. IIRC, the treaty was ratified in 1990, so . . .

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Vesayen
How can anyone support a party which does not support its voters interests, but corporations who finance their elections?

And yet he wants people to vote Democratic folks!

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The treaty which joined the Marianians to the United States prohibbited our labor protection laws from being in force there until ten years after annexaction. IIRC, the treaty was ratified in 1990, so . . .

Which was 6 years ago. For the 6 years it would be legal to do so, it was blocked by the Republicans.

Oh. I forgot to mention that women there are also forced into prostitution. That too.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042706LA.shtml

Finding good links on this sort of thing is hard... if we make a new thread i'm sure someone has a more legitimate source.

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


And yet he wants people to vote Democratic folks!

Lesser evil. Democrats suck too. You will not hear me say a kind word about the democrats.

[DinoDoc]

I figured that would catch your attention when I saw it.

[Lancer]

Though that story is heartbreaking, the 3 to a bed nine to a toilet sounds pretty average for the poor in the Philippines.

The rest, if the story is true, is a shameful nightmare and yet another good reason to leave the party.

There is ZERO chance I'd become a democrat however.

I'll check out the Constitutional party Che, thanks.

Dis, I agree. Having nowhere else to go is the staple of both major parties.

[Vesayen]

You don't have to become a democrat, to vote democrat .

[Lancer]

True...

About as much point in voting dem as repub though.

[Lancer]

Constitutional party is anti immigration. Not just illegal...

So forget them

[Geronimo]

how do you feel about tort reform? The democrats vehemently oppose any of it. The republicans pay lip service to tort reform but hardly ever propose any bills to deal with it.

Tort reform is one issue that prevents me from going all the way to democrat from more or less independant. If a dem publicly says they oppose tort reform I'll go for the republican candidate every time.

[Lancer]

I'm for limits. Also for 'loser pays'.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Lancer
True...

About as much point in voting dem as repub though.

Think about this, and I mean really think about it.

I wen't to go eat and I was thinking over what you just said, and what I said yesterday.....

*WHY* do you vote?

Thats not as simple a question as it may sound. Why do you vote? Do you vote to "make your opinion known"?

Do you vote to try to change/maintain goverment policy?
Do you vote to try to change/maintain effects on your life?

WHY do you vote?

[Whoha]

Re: Why should I stay a republican?

Originally posted by Lancer
Abortion, but what else?

I still have hope for a free Iraq...

I'm interested to hear from anyone, but fellow republicans particularly.

I'm really losing faith in the party.

don't vote republican, vote candidates you support.

[Lancer]

To express your freedom and therefore to sustain it.

[chequita guevara]

You're not alone in thinking about leaving the GOP, Lancer.

Check this out.