Pale Blue Ego;357567 Wrote: > The election was a complete non-issue, a distracting dog-and-pony show. > >
As a cynical old fart, I must agree with you. After the collapse of the USSR, there were some wonderful election stories about their first real elections: they had some clever rules. In order to win, you needed to have more than 50% of the votes... and undercounts counted against you. So many old time party bosses ran, as they always had, unopposed. And lost. Around these parts, it would probably take years to actually have a winner in an election.. but, maybe if they did that on a local level, then escalated to state and then national races over a 10-20 year period it would weed out the "they suck less than the other guy" candidates. Too much American politics is dictated by the "I suck less" candidates, and lots of talk (from both parties, I hate all politicians regardless of political affiliation, creed, race, gender, whatever, they all lie) about being the voice of 'the people' when they are in the top 1-2% of incomes, and more interested in how they remodel their 3rd or 4th home than why their constituents are struggling to pay their bills. The huge irony is that despite all the talk about health care and prescription drug costs for the last 20 years, the single most important force in saving consumers money on drugs has been... Walmart and the effect it had on their competitors to negotiate lower prices with their suppliers, too. (And hopefully to get consumers to smack their doctor for prescribing non-generics when generics are available.. did you know doctors get kickbacks on the prescriptions they write?) Bah, time to crank up the music. And, you kids, get off my lawn. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
