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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Carl on April 03, 2010, 05:10:24 PM
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 02:26 PM
Original message
Poll question: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
Only ONE.
Poll result (101 votes)
End foreign occupations and bring home all US troops immediately. (13 votes, 13%) Vote
Replace fossil fuel use entirely with renewable energy sources in the US. (11 votes, 11%) Vote
Provide free universal health care for all Americans. (14 votes, 14%) Vote
Eliminate corporate personhood in the US. (14 votes, 14%) Vote
Kill “free-trade†insanity by eliminating NAFTA and GATT and implementing sensible and meaningful trade and taxation policies. (6 votes, 6%) Vote
Replace the current US system with 100% publicly financed campaigns. (28 votes, 28%) Vote
Break up corporate media conglomerates, restoring local ownership of media outlets and strictly limiting ownership of TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, networks, etc. (13 votes, 13%) Vote
Other. (2 votes, 2%) Vote
47of74 (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 02:28 PM
Response to Original message
2. I selected breaking up media companies
They're all good options. But breaking up the noise machine first perhaps would cause a domino effect for the other things to happen too.
I can`t stand free speech!
buff2 (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 02:36 PM
Response to Reply #2
9. I voted for that too
Get the CONservative hate mongers off the air. They are the cause of all the resentment and hate in America today.
I really can`t stand free speech.
JoeyT (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 03:00 PM
Response to Reply #2
16. That's the reason I picked
publicly financed elections.
I fear it would take both happening at the same time to actually accomplish what we hope for.
Of course once both of those happened we'd have a much better chance at getting everything else on this list.
Silence I say!!!!
Brickbat (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 02:31 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. Agreed. Universal health care would spur business growth, improve public health, and take a lot of
the burden off our health-care system.
I voted for it, even as much as I hate NAFTA.
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 02:53 PM
Response to Original message
13. #2 wins hands down
And it's incredible that anyone would chose any other. Not that they aren't all things I'd like to see, but if #2 doesn't happen, none of the rest will mean a damn. If we don't have alternate means to move goods and people and to generate heat and electricity after fossil fuels run out or become prohibitively expensive, what on earth will it matter where our troops are, or how we fund elections?
Name them.
phantom power (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 03:01 PM
Response to Reply #14
17. +1 Elimination of influence from private campaign donors would help all the rest.
Fascist
BanzaiBonnie (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 03:36 PM
Response to Original message
27. Publicly financed campaigns comes in first
Without that, we'll have a hard row to hoe with the rest of the reforms.
ROFF (68 posts) Sat Apr-03-10 04:14 PM
Response to Original message
29. Replace the current US system with 100% publicly financed campaigns.
Once this is done, all the others are possible
In other words don`t let the publics voice be heard.
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Break up corporate media conglomerates, restoring local ownership of media outlets and strictly limiting ownership of TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, networks, etc.
Putin would be proud.
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Eliminate corporate personhood in the US.
I'm not even going to venture to guess what this means.
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End foreign occupations and bring home all US troops immediately. (13 votes, 13%) Vote
Yeah. Ask the millions of people around the world where we put our lives on the line, and often die, just to give them freedom, food, shelter and security if they feel "occupied".
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I'm just catching up after the weekend. Thank you, ColonialMarine, for the pictures, and all you do. Those were great.
I have no comment on the DUmmies libtard wish list.
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I'll go with "Other" and pick "Forced moonbat deportation."
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I'll go with "Other" and pick "Forced moonbat deportation."
:popcorn:
to Atlantis. The continent, not the space shuttle.
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-10 02:31 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. Agreed. Universal health care would spur business growth, improve public health, and take a lot of
the burden off our health-care system.
:bwah:
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and another thing...
Provide free universal health care for all Americans.
Get a load of that "free." Is there anything more childish? Kindergartners think in terms of "free" stuff. People who have grown up already have learned there's very little that's free. Air, faith, sometimes love if you get lucky.
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to Atlantis. The continent, not the space shuttle.
You may as well make it the space shuttle. Those responses confirm that they are all Space Cadets. :mental:
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You may as well make it the space shuttle. Those responses confirm that they are all Space Cadets. :mental:
Conceptually I don't have a problem with shooting them into space, as long as they get out somewhere besides the Space Station, but there just isn't enough capacity to make a dent in their numbers doing that. I think it'd be better to send entire condemned rusting freighter uhhh, 'Cruise ship' loads of them off to form future coral reefs ermm, 'Exotic destinations.'
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Conceptually I don't have a problem with shooting them into space, as long as they get out somewhere besides the Space Station, but there just isn't enough capacity to make a dent in their numbers doing that. I think it'd be better to send entire condemned rusting freighter uhhh, 'Cruise ship' loads of them off to form future coral reefs ermm, 'Exotic destinations.'
But if they get out before the space station they will burn on reentry and pollute the atmosphere causing more global warming...awh WTH, I can stand a few more degrees.
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Break up corporate media conglomerates, restoring local ownership of media outlets and strictly limiting ownership of TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, networks, etc.
It must be mighty chilly in hell today, I agree with the DUchebag. Elimination of AP would make the world a much better place.
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The photos are sure touching. Thanks to all of you in service.
The wish list? Sheesh.