[BFix] FW: The new Socialism!

[Billy]

I hear you, Dusty. I'm a Conservative, so I have nobody to vote for!  No way 
I'm voting for any of these idiots. I will vote independent this year, I 
don't care who it's for!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steffie & Dusty Sharp" <dtsharp at earthlink.net>
To: "'bfix'" <bfix at broncofix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:31 PM
Subject: RE: [BFix] FW: The new Socialism!


>> perks so it falls on death ears.  What needs to happen is
>> campaign reform.  Put a limit on the amount of money any one
>> person can spend on running for office.  Make all donations
>> go into a common fund, which is split evenly amongst the
>> candidates, then donate the rest to charity.  Let's say each
>> candidate gets 10 million, that puts every single one of them
>> on an even field, so they have to rely on their brains, and
>> positions on issues instead of having it be a face time on
>> your television popularity contest.
>
> So who decides which candidates are eligible for an equal slice of that
> campaign pie?  Will my Libertarian candidate get an equal share of it, 
> just
> like the socialists (Democrats and Republicans) get?  What about the Green
> Party guy, or Peace & Freedom?  The problem with this strategy is that the
> two huge socialist parties will implement it with rules that only their
> candidates get to share in the pie.  The other problem that I have with it
> philosophically is that as Free Americans, each of us should be free to
> spend our money on whatever or whomever we please.  Telling someone they
> can't give money to someone else is just furthering us down the path 
> toward
> total government control.
>
> The problem with campaign finance isn't so much that the candidates and 
> the
> corporations put so much money into their campaigns--its that the SHEEP 
> (my
> fellow Americans who can't see past the plantation wall) hear their tripe 
> on
> TV or the radio and actually buy into it, then vote for these guys.  I'm 
> not
> sure how to fix that.  Generation after generation of indoctrination by
> government schools has left most of us with an inability to think for
> ourselves.
>
> The unfortunate truth is that the three of them--Obama, Hillary, AND 
> McCain
> are so closely aligned politically as to be almost indistinguishable.  We
> have a choice between three socialists, which will eventually be whittled
> down to a choice between two socialists, who want nothing more than to
> further enslave you.  And most of you will actually vote for one of the 
> two.
>
> I will once again vote for a loser in this election.  I'll vote 
> Libertarian
> like always.  Then I can look forward to another 4 years of being proud 
> that
> I didn't vote for the piece of shit we have in office.
>
> Dusty
> (Been a long time since I jumped into one of these!)
>
>
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