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[davinxtk]

Kevin, it doesn't have anything to do with Democrats or Republicans. You're jumping to the partisan line too quickly. What I'm saying is that they'd vote on real issues and real problems, not the ones that the media kicks up to obstruct our view of the nation's real concerns and problems. I don't like the Democrats or the Republicans particularly, neither party rests enough control in its people.


And you're right, there were two seperate arguments there, but both are valid. If everyone in the country served in a civil or military capacity at some point in their lives, it would give them a damn good reason to want to control what the government was doing. The life experience would also put them more in touch with the reality of the nation.



And GA, I'm definitely not the right person to try and get class-based character judgements out of. If I had my way I'd have a newish reliable car, a decent sized home of my own and food for my family. So would you, and everyone else in the country. I'm not into this disparity, I don't believe that people should be in such different economic standing, provided they work. Of course different work deserves different and sometimes greater rewards, but this capitalist economy has gotten entirely out of control. It bugs the living shit out of me that one of my mom's clients owns three houses, right on the beach, two of which he only uses for three months out of the year and then lets sit while he lives in his mansion in Connecticut and yet my mother received a foreclosure notice in the mail because she can't afford to maintain our vehicles, our car insurance, our telephones, internet, and mortgage payments, even with myself and two of my friends helping her out by paying rent. Her client is actually a very nice man who helped us out of another sticky situation three years ago by loaning my mother money (which she paid back in full). He doesn't, however, work. He got to the top of a computer company and sold it in late 2000, right before the economy shit the bed. He hasn't worked since, and he's bought, remodeled, and/or refinished four houses since then. He has money becuase he was in the right position at the right time, not be cause he works. I don't necessarily begrudge him this as much as I do the system which allowed for it all to happen.