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AnArmyVeteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:18 PM
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Poll question: AUCTIONS versus ELECTIONS? How would you like to pick your leaders?
Edited on Sat May-15-10 11:48 PM by AnArmyVeteran
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:35 PM
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1. Seems the way many are picked these days: the people vote, the vested interests bid at auction. . .
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notesdev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 01:40 AM
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2. Hold a contest
Whoever can shoot the most bankers in 60 minutes wins.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 04:03 AM
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3. Put everyone's name in a hat.......
...randomly selected legislators would be much better than the career criminals we have now.
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AnArmyVeteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 11:29 AM
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6. I thought that same idea. Make any voter part of the pool and randomly select them.
It couldn't be any worse than the farcical system we have now where it's a revolving door of political prostitutes.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 07:10 AM
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4. Public Auctions - at least that way we can see how cheap it is to buy one of them.
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Phoebe Loosinhouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 07:19 AM
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5. We currently have a hybrid - public elections of privately auctioned candidates
We pretend they serve the public when they so obviously don't. Healthcare ripped that scab off for everyone to see.Any government that is capable of not negotiating drug prices in a public health program deserves to be dissolved and replaced.
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