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Article #472Re: Vote
From: Ladies Choice
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:46
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:46
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In article <1137970993.866891.263970@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, vivianepb_@hotmail.com says... > >patycat311@hotmail.com wrote: >> X-No-archive: yes >> >> Tomorrow Vote >> if you do not vote do not be bitching all over the place that the people >> they elected in are are doing a poor job > >1) What's the point of voting if you expect all of them to do a poor >job anyway? >2) What's the point of voting if your vote doesn't count because you >live in the "wrong" riding? >3) What's the point of voting if the people who have the REAL power >aren't our elected officials? > Actually the idea is that you're supposed to NOT bitch about the govt after voting. After you vote you're supposed to say to yourself "well, I've excersized as much power as they've given me". That way if you're ever inclined to bitch about the system the peanut-gallery can point the bony finger of blame at you and say "you can't complain about it since you're supporting it!"
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X-Google-Thread: 114af9,9f8ca6c328ee4d11 X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,9f8ca6c328ee4d11 X-Google-Thread: 108c64,9f8ca6c328ee4d11 X-Google-Thread: 10643c,9f8ca6c328ee4d11 X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,9f8ca6c328ee4d11 X-Google-Attributes: gid114af9,gid1083bf,gid108c64,gid10643c,gid106cdd,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!clgrps12.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: mtl.general,van.general,wpg.general,tor.general,bc.general Subject: Re: Vote From: LC@dinkerson.com (Ladies Choice) X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.9 (Released Version) (x86 32bit) References: <oCTAf.98125$AP5.44141@edtnps84> <1137970993.866891.263970@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Lines: 26 Message-ID: <zPUAf.90307$m05.47218@clgrps12> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:46:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 154.20.56.185 X-Trace: clgrps12 1137973599 154.20.56.185 (Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:46:39 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:46:39 MST