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Why should I vote?

Posted: Jan 30, 2014

Why should I take the time and go to the effort to make informed choices and even bother to vote? If the president is going to do whatever he wants, what difference does it make which senator, congressman, or whatever, I vote for?;

I feel exactly the same way sometimes. - In my state, the populace will pass a proposition

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but then some judge will overturn it. Why spend the money entailed with getting something on the ballot, selling it to the people, yada yada yada only to have some bozo judge overturn it and do what he/she wants in the first place? America is changing and not in a good way.

I find myself agreeing with you. - s/msg

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Although I've always considered voting to be very important, over the last few elections I've noticed something that has been very demoralizing: Sometimes laws are passed, often good laws, that one side or the other doesn't agree with, and although the American people voted it in, they immediately reverse it, often without a vote.

Also, regardless of which party is in office, it's getting tiresome that nothing much is ever accomplished in our government, because they waste all their time and energy during that sitting President's time in office doing their utmost to make sure that nothing gets done.

For that reason, I've lost faith in the system, and in particular, our Party System. I think it's just turned into two "gangs" out to retaliate against each other for all the "wrongs" each side has supposedly done. It's time to do away with our antiquated party system, and simply have non-party-affiliated INDIVIDUALS run for office solely on their talent, ideas, and potential; NOT on a party or religion-based platform.

Each year that goes by that we sit around while nothing gets accomplished in our government, other countries that have it more together are pulling away from us developmentally. If we don't take control of our own country again, and take it out of the hands of big business, we can pretty much count on someday being owned by one of those other countries.

IMO, extremism is a problem. When compromise is considered a bad word/concept, - nothing happensNM

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BECAUSE IT DOES MATTER - anon

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Multiple yourself by all the other people that think this way. If they all voted a serious change could take place. It's so important. As George Carlin would say "you can't bitch about it if you don't vote". You're right one vote won't really matter but 1 vote x thousands if not millions...........think about it!

That is incorrect - here is the actual quote. Right on Mr. Carlin!!!! - Mrs. Tingles - sm

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“I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don’t vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, ‘If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain,’ but where’s the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote — who did not even leave the house on Election Day — am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created.”

George Carlin was a comedian and a political satirist. Get it? - nm

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I was correcting an incorrect quote - Mrs. Tingles - sm

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Besides there are a lot of people in this country that just because they are not a politician does not mean they don't understand politics. Get it?

If you want do direct your tude to someone direct it to the one who brought up George Carlin in the first place.

Voting - outahere

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If Obama had a congress that would do its job and work with him instead of oppose everything he tries to negotiate with them he wouldn't have to resort to executive order. When you vote this time, don't waste it on the Tea Party.

You mean waste it on the Democrat party - Mrs. Tingles

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Our congress is trying to do their job. It's pretty tough when you have a person who is supposed to be a president who will not work with you. People who have vowed not to let any bills put forth by republicans come to the table. The democrats refuse to work with republicans. Maybe you are too young to know this, but congress is the voice of the people. We voted them in to represent us. They are trying to do the job we elected them to do.

Executive orders are not something you "resort to" when you don't get your way. That is a child's point of view.

By the way, the tea party is not running for president. We have the democrat party and the republican party. If we are lucky we might even get an independent to make it to a certain point (I always enjoy hearing a third parties point of views), but in this country we have never had a tea party person running, it's always been just the 2 parties. Granted there are factions in each party, there are people who consider them tea party members in the republican party, just like there are progressives in the democrat party, but they don't actually have a candidate running.

But back to the point, executive orders are not there because you don't get your way. He needs to start working with congress.

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