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Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf

If you don't vote, then a void is in place and it will be filled by a republican. Ok, maybe Dems aren't the best there is but, its the best thing going compared to the disaster we have now.

I vote, i vote every election. I simply vote third party, or write in candidate. I refuse to vote for Demcrat or republican, simply because 90% of my fellow Americans are drooling retards who cant get thier cowbrains out of the two party stranglehold.

They overlook third party cadidtates, because third partys aint got the cash to get thier faces on TV, where most Americans get thier history, political, and moral lessons. Thus, in thier minds, if a candidate is not on TV, he must not exist or be any good. Thus, the mentality of the retard masses.

The Clinton years were not good. You place too much trust in charts and graphs. Charts and graphs dont pain pictures of reality.

The majority of new jobs created during the Clinton years were low paying service jobs, from the boom in small buisness. They were taken from once higher paying good jobs. So, you had people who worked, true. people who worked for # wages, little benefits. Terrible really. the only people who did well in the 90's were computer geeks, or people with money to invest. Blue collar workers declined, thier jobs, thanks to Clinton and NAFTA, getting shipped to Mexico.

So, again, the inaccuracy of charts and graphs, silly things that silly people use to paint a picture of reality they want to have. Reality is:

During the 90's, I saw a massive increase in the price of housing. I also saw a massive increase in personal debt. Another reason the economy did so well during the Clinton years: credit was being handed out like candy, and people were overspending, charging this an that on credit cards, because credit was so easy to get,. Thus, the wealth, the increased sales, consumer confidence, blah blah blah.

The economy began its decline in 99, during Clintons watch. This house of cards and economy based on debt slowly began to crumble. The dot coms began crashing.

And it lingers into the Bush years. Bush is doing little to help the economy, just maiing it worse with his stupid wars and crap, plus his hommies in Enron and other oil pimps gouging and ,manipulating energy markets.

No, you will it as likely for me to vote for Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, or Santa Claus as you will for another friggin democrat.

This e;lection, i shall continue to vote third party, mainly Libertarian, since they are the thid largets party, but if another candiate from another party ctaches my eye, I will vote for them.

Never will i vote for Illuminati approved candidates, whether they be elephants or donkeys.

Not to get sued for copyright infringement, but that was some Elf'n fresh Bullshyte!
Look, I'm a Centrist and one of the biggest advocates of seeing the way we vote in this country reformed and I would cheer the death of the two party system.
Let's set it straight: I am one of those small business owners who prospered, after starting my practice in 1993, under Clintons policies. There was no see saw effect on job growth, it was across the board. what you are trying to pass off with a Right Wing sound byte about NAFTA is about 10% true - we went through a period of rapid modernization in the US and around the world - just because you are 'blue collar' does not mean that job skill education is not a core requirement to your financial well being. Ask the mechanic who works on my cars. Ask the carpenter who built my house.
Housing shot up, but so did personal wealth in all economic strata. Those shyte wages you're talking about accounted for the most people climbing above the poverty line and the most people coming off of welfare.
During Clintons presidency: 3000% GP growth for my practice over year 1. Bush's policies screw the hell out of small business; they are very pro business....but only BIG BUSINESS.
The economy started to plateau in '99, after successive years of double digit growth ! Even a great orgasm comes to an end, you know?
The recession started 3/2001, don't forget that. It's a trifecta variable that Dim Son bragged about as being a pre-cursor to his smash & dash economic policy.
The people who can realistically bring about a viable third party...are too old. Jim Jefford & John McCain would get my vote if they broke out and ran for president. It'll be a helluva ticket.
But realize this - vote for someone that won't kill the country (Bush) until we can get that third or fourth option up and viable. Else, you risk extending the misery.

On the credit card thing, you are spot on: keeping up with the Jones became the American past time, and debt fueled that. But look back to the deregualtion/abolishment of many of the safeguards ......Newt Gingrich, remember that name? The whoring to special interests that funded that Congress is what ushered in the 24% credit card interest rate and all those fine print revisions on card statements.

[Edited on 27-8-2003 by Bout Time]