Pretty much of the same garbage.

HunterICX

In Quebec, we will have a provincial election on sept. 4.

The choices are:

1. Parti Québécois: social-democratic (communists by U.S. standards), want Quebec to separate from Canada, want to raise taxes on the "rich";

2. Liberal Party: current government, conservative (communists by U.S. standards), but have been caught up in all sorts of financial/corruption scandals;

3. Coalition Avenir-Quebec: more conservative than liberals (still communists by U.S. standards), but brand new/inexperienced. Leader is a former PQ minister who has been wishy-washy on where he stands on Quebec independence.

In other words, here as everywhere else, it is a case of voting for the lesser of three evils. :ping:

Yeppers!

On a side note, is a yank allowed to call people muppets (I always got a lul from that term) too? I keep thinking of Kermit the frog, and Fozzie bear , and it seems awkward.:O:

We usually just call our politicians...

Uh never mind.:D

Are you serious?

That is just wrong on so many levels. Oh and apparently a rapist can sue for custody too.

Makes me ask, "WTF?"


Personally, I don't mind guns, but I don't like God and Guns mixed together. As for Gays, while i dont agree with the "lifestyle", they are entitled to the pursuit of happiness, so i say leave em alone. As for Christian fundies, they are one reason (of several) why i shy away from the right wing now. I DO NOT like religious ramrodding, and team R is loaded with evangelicals now. The republican party of today, is not the republican party of yesterday.

It's not really an improvement at least to anyone who has to pay for it.

While coverage has increased significantly the quality of health care has remained unchanged and in spite of being billed as an antidote to run away health care costs, the price of insurance premiums have jumped 5-10% every year since Romneycare was enacted, way above the national inflation rate.

Yep I sure am. All they had to do is keep their noses out of social issues but they had to pander to the religious right and I think it's gonna cost them the election. At this moment the best scenario I see for the country is that Obama wins reelection as a lame duck and the Senate goes to the GoP (and the House doesn't change).

God help us all if one party (or the other) gets control of both Congress and the Oval office.

What worries me the most about having a Republican Senate and a Democrat Oval Office (or vice versa) is that both sides have shown themselves willing to put political points ahead of co-operation for what's best for the nation.
So, if the economic crisis deepens, will the government be able to take any steps to combat it? Or will it be spun between left and right until its too late?

That's what worries me. Both parties are poloraized. Compromise, a word that in my opinion is the very core of statecraft, is now considered weakness. I fear our country will crumble into ruins all around us, and both parties will still be standing there, pointing fingers at each other, with neither having done anything to prevent it.

Co-operation is not a word that is used by anyone in our Congress. If something goes wrong, they just blame each other. That's why they have set a new record low in the opinion of the American people. No one thinks they are worth anything.

Fixed :D

One could also expand the list to infinity

:haha::yeah:

It is called divide and conquer.

If we are too busy attacking each other, we won't be able to attack the real problems.

1.Create an idealogical divide in the citizenry.
2.stoke the fire a bit.
3.Turn the citizens on each other.
4. Rob the country blind while the proles fight.
5. ?????
6. PROFIT

If this was 200 years ago, we would have overthrown these over the top corrupt shmucks. But we seemed to have lost our testicles. The modern politician almost rubs it in your face how dirty they are...

On the other hand if either party controls the entire enchilada you get runaway spending and gobs of social engineering.

I'd much rather have the gridlock.

That also is true. Mind you, i'm not excited about the prospect of one party, or the other being in total control. However, one could argue, that if one party got the whole enchilada, at least something would be done. The way things are going this day and age, Something, anything, is better then nothing.

Now, I don't wish for any one party to have total control, what I do wish, is this extreme left or right BS stop. All the hyperbole, jingoism, and rhetoric. It ALL needs to stop. I think that would be the first step away from polarism, and more towards the middle of the road where we need to be. Everyone, left, or right, needs to get off this "my way or the highway" kick and start meeting their fellow countrymen in the middle.
(edit: but sad to say, I don't think that will ever happen. If I was to jump on the "doomsday prepping" bandwagon, governmental and financial collapse would be my rational. )