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National campaigns have never, ever been about the little guy. The cost of ads alone much less the infrastructure needed to run a competative grounds game in enough states to win run into serious bank.
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I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio -
I know that. I even said so.
I don't LIKE it, though.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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There is something
quite fishy about how politics is run and how politicians live in the USA.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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Get rid of the pretence and make it a real, straight up auction. No more advertising, voting, ballot counting. The candidate who offers the most $ gets the job. Put the dough towards the national debt.Long time member @ Apolyton
Civilization player since the dawn of timeComment
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Heh. There's a thought.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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That reminds me of The Roman Empire when the Praetorian Guard sold off the imperial title to the highest bidder after the death of Commodus.Originally posted by Lancer
Get rid of the pretence and make it a real, straight up auction. No more advertising, voting, ballot counting. The candidate who offers the most $ gets the job. Put the dough towards the national debt.Comment
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We would have pretty much the same thing we have now without all those nasty commertials and with less national debt.
Hanging chads? Blah!Long time member @ Apolyton
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So...would you have to give up your office if your check bounced?
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If
you make more money than a Congressman, then shouldn't you live better than one (in terms of house, standard of living, etc.)?
And, when you can see that in fact all Congressmen seem to live better than you (in terms of house, standard of living, etc.), doesn't that indicate they have plenty of other sources of income...?“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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All the more reason to increase their payComment
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That's the Singaporean argument: of you want people of merit, you have to pay them what they'd be worth in the private sector. Cabbies here, when they learn I'm American, love to express shock -- and some pity -- over how little ($400,00 USD, iirc) our president gets paid.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
All the more reason to increase their pay"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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