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Originally posted by MagiK:
Just a point to any person out there who thinks the world should be run jointly by votes of all the people....you all need to wake up and realize that there are far more people who would like to see you dead or in bondage than see you free and voting. It is a sad reality but one that people who live in their dream world utopia's better understand. There are people, people with real power out there, who would love to just have you killed for sport. Humans are not all nice and gushy inside no matter what the "Can't we all just get along" crowd says.
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Amen.
When the fed couldn't pass the budget during Clinton's admin, a friend of mine suggested we put it to a national referrendum. I was appalled.
With Harvard, Princeton, and Yale's best economists working on the budget, we were having trouble balancing things out, and this guy wanted every ignorant Tom, Dick, Jane, and Harry in the country deciding it? You gotta be kidding me.
There are two main assumptions, IMO, the U.S. system of government, which is a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC, for those of you who forgot 8th Grade Civics:
1. Because individual people specialize in their *jobs* rather than running the country, they choose people who have more expertise to do that job, thereby delegating the job of representing a group to one individual;
2. Part of the representative's job, often times, is to look at what is good for the NATION as a whole rather than those people in it at a given time: it is more important that we go on as a Nation that we enjoy today, and it is sometimes the case that the best long-term decision is unpopular or has bad ramifications in the short term.
For this reason, I sure as hell don't want Billy Bob Joe Jack deciding whether or not to pass the budget, or any other number of governmental decisions we delegate to representatives.
I did mention I'm a elitist, didn't I?
[ 01-20-2003, 10:14 AM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]