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Offline Carl

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If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« on: April 03, 2010, 05:10:24 PM »
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branders seine  (1000+ posts)       Sat Apr-03-10 02:26 PM
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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



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47of74  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-03-10 02:28 PM
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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!
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buff2  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-03-10 02:36 PM
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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.

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JoeyT  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-03-10 03:00 PM
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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!!!!

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Brickbat (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-03-10 02:31 PM
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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.

 :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

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skepticscott  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-03-10 02:53 PM
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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.

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phantom power  (1000+ posts)          Sat Apr-03-10 03:01 PM
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17. +1 Elimination of influence from private campaign donors would help all the rest.

Fascist

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BanzaiBonnie  (1000+ posts)       Sat Apr-03-10 03:36 PM
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27. Publicly financed campaigns comes in first
   Without that, we'll have a hard row to hoe with the rest of the reforms.

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ROFF  (68 posts)        Sat Apr-03-10 04:14 PM
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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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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2010, 05:20:23 PM »
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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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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2010, 05:21:14 PM »
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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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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2010, 06:15:35 PM »
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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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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2010, 06:56:53 PM »
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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2010, 01:33:53 PM »
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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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2010, 01:44:30 PM »
I'll go with "Other" and pick "Forced moonbat deportation."

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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2010, 01:46:46 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on April 05, 2010, 01:44:30 PM
I'll go with "Other" and pick "Forced moonbat deportation."

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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2010, 01:53:01 PM »
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5. Agreed. Universal health care would spur business growth, improve public health, and take a lot of
   the burden off our health-care system.

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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2010, 02:04:23 PM »
and another thing...

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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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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2010, 04:09:03 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on April 05, 2010, 01:46:46 PM
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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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2010, 04:37:02 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on April 05, 2010, 04:09:03 PM
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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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2010, 05:11:37 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on April 05, 2010, 04:37:02 PM
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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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2010, 06:15:17 PM »
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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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Re: If you could make ONE of the following changes, which would it be?
« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2010, 06:27:08 PM »
The photos are sure touching.  Thanks to all of you in service.

The wish list?  Sheesh. 
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