Quote: (08-31-2012 12:56 AM)Jaydublin Wrote:
I was just commenting to my buddy the other day that it doesn't even feel like there is an election going on. Certainly nothing like the last one.
My mom is about as blindly optimistic as It comes and the other day she even
Said to me "why bother voting anymore, no matter who it is nothing changes". I couldn't believe those words came from her mouth
You can smell the Apathy all around. Americans simply don't care about this election one bit.
You know how we had a dot-com bubble, housing bubble, etc?
Well you are going to see a election/democracy bubble this year.
This year a Billion $ + will be spent trying to convince 10% of the population whom is "undecided" in a select few States whom to vote for to change nothing.
Think about that for a second...
A $Billion plus dollars and we will largely see the lowest turnouts in American History.
Its a bubble....and it will crash.
Quote: (08-31-2012 02:54 AM)Roosh Wrote:
Speakeasy: you do realize that the way they're getting you to vote is strike fear that your life will change if the other guy wins, right?
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Someone who will slash taxes for his rich buddies, reintroduce Reaganomics, ratchet up more military spending and dismantle the social safety net?
None of that will affect your life. The "social safety net" will not be there in 40 years, whether Obama wins or not.
The country is in trouble when people are motivated to keep a guy out of office, instead of voting for a guy who will solve this country's problems.
And this is really it. Politics really just maintains the Status Quo and nothing else. IF a leader deviates to far he gets canned. But the Status Quo is just more of the same
Anytime I get into a discussion about entitlements and social spending and I tell people (Social S/Canadian Pensions) will not be around when we retire people get a puzzled look. But its very simple to understand. We can't expect something to be around that was never created for us in the first place. SS was for for Babies of the war effort and The Great Society measures such as Medicare were for the Boomers whom were the cildren of those war babies. As all of them die off its Nieve to think their programs will remain for us.
When the created these programs they knew they would bankrupt them selves down the road. They were never intended to be sustainable long term.