Who's Your Vote-Daddy?
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Henrietta
I'm sure that's what he thought about, to destroy BC. As much as I want the world to be a happy, getting along place, America has to look after it's best interests. We need to limit free trade, we need to learn how to support ourselves again. We have the means, and we have the skills, but we are going to lose them if we keep importing goods we don't need. All nations think of themselves, and although America is always trying to step in and stop things that sometimes do affect us and sometimes don't, we need to be the same.
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lemonphile4
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I like discussions about politics. But when it gets to the point where people on opposite sides are accusing each other of being uneducated or saying they have no right to have an opinion or whatever, things need to change. It isn't worth it to divide everyone over this.
Nothing is ever as black and white as politicians and the media make things out to be. Life is complicated. You can never blame one person for everyone's problems. And people are always going to put their spin on things.
If you're really interested in what is going on, you should get your information from many different sources. Don't rely on Bill O'Reilly or Michael Moore or whoever- because their agenda is not to educate, it is to sell books and t-shirts.
ps. An organization I'm in tried to start a voting registration campaign to coincide with Mo Rocca coming to campus in September. It turns out that in Michigan, you need to fill out the paperwork for these things by July of the previous year (when no one is thinking about elections).
Nothing is ever as black and white as politicians and the media make things out to be. Life is complicated. You can never blame one person for everyone's problems. And people are always going to put their spin on things.
If you're really interested in what is going on, you should get your information from many different sources. Don't rely on Bill O'Reilly or Michael Moore or whoever- because their agenda is not to educate, it is to sell books and t-shirts.
ps. An organization I'm in tried to start a voting registration campaign to coincide with Mo Rocca coming to campus in September. It turns out that in Michigan, you need to fill out the paperwork for these things by July of the previous year (when no one is thinking about elections).
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Don't be surprised if the free trade agreements are disbanded following this coming election. I've read quite a few stories that both Bush and Kerry don't like the agreements, and are starting to sway back towards a protectionist state with the recent announcements of job loses to asia.
Whether this will be good or bad remains to be seen for Mexico and Canada. Personally I think we'd be better off without free trade, and it would open up the chance for independent businesses to compete with big business.
Mind you NAFTA was a big joke anyways.
Whether this will be good or bad remains to be seen for Mexico and Canada. Personally I think we'd be better off without free trade, and it would open up the chance for independent businesses to compete with big business.
Mind you NAFTA was a big joke anyways.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
i plan on throwing my vote away in that party in the up coming election. In a sense it's the same as you not voting i suppose, but i could never vote for Harper, and Martin is weak
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
I AM ME wrote:i plan on throwing my vote away in that party in the up coming election. In a sense it's the same as you not voting i suppose, but i could never vote for Harper, and Martin is weak
it's what i like to call, bushVgore sindrome.
Whenever death may surprise us,
let it be welcome
if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Nobody's gonna miss me, no tears will fall, no ones gonna weap, when i hit that road.
my boots are broken my brain is sore, fer keepin' up with thier little world, i got a heavy load.
gonna leave 'em all just like before, i'm big city bound, your always 17 in your hometown
let it be welcome
if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Nobody's gonna miss me, no tears will fall, no ones gonna weap, when i hit that road.
my boots are broken my brain is sore, fer keepin' up with thier little world, i got a heavy load.
gonna leave 'em all just like before, i'm big city bound, your always 17 in your hometown
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modern psychokitty
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When a nation refuses to honour their treaties with other nations, it shows they have no respect for anyone, and don't deserve any respect. And then how can you blame anyone for, well, having no respect for the government in question?
Even if you are protecting your own industry, countries *have* to recognise when someone, like Canada, is providing a better product, like softwood lumber. There is *no point* in protecting an industry that's just going to lead to more leaky roofs.
The world is changing right now. A lot of developing countries, especially China, are finally starting to catch up with the first world, and the EU just got a lot bigger. The US can stick its head in the sand and ignore everyone else, or they can see it coming and adjust to the 'new world order', but in twenty years, they won't be the world's biggest economic force anymore.
I would have considered voting Conservative if Belinda Stronach had won.
edit: i may have hit "submit" before i intended to.
Even if you are protecting your own industry, countries *have* to recognise when someone, like Canada, is providing a better product, like softwood lumber. There is *no point* in protecting an industry that's just going to lead to more leaky roofs.
The world is changing right now. A lot of developing countries, especially China, are finally starting to catch up with the first world, and the EU just got a lot bigger. The US can stick its head in the sand and ignore everyone else, or they can see it coming and adjust to the 'new world order', but in twenty years, they won't be the world's biggest economic force anymore.
I would have considered voting Conservative if Belinda Stronach had won.
edit: i may have hit "submit" before i intended to.
"That girl thinks she's the queen of the neighbourhood, well I've got news for you... SHE IS!" ~Bikini Kill, Rebel Girl
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Henrietta
Even if you are protecting your own industry, countries *have* to recognise when someone, like Canada, is providing a better product, like softwood lumber. There is *no point* in protecting an industry that's just going to lead to more leaky roofs.
No they don't, they can do however they see fit. If we think that we need your lumber we will meet an agreement, if we think we can live with our own, they we will.
Even if you are protecting your own industry, countries *have* to recognise when someone, like Canada, is providing a better product, like softwood lumber. There is *no point* in protecting an industry that's just going to lead to more leaky roofs.
There is a point. The point is to protect the weak, which in this case is the american lumber industry.
You see, it's not about who can do the best job. It's about delivering a shittier and more expensive product so that jobs can be kept in america.
dont' worry. that kind of communist bullshit leads to worse economic conditions every single time.
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modern psychokitty
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Read the first part. There's a treaty.
If you make a deal without someone you can't act like a spoiled child and pretend it doesn't exist when you don't like it, and does when it benefits you. This isn't Gr. 7 anymore.
There's also a tariff on wheat. We're bitter too.
If you make a deal without someone you can't act like a spoiled child and pretend it doesn't exist when you don't like it, and does when it benefits you. This isn't Gr. 7 anymore.
There's also a tariff on wheat. We're bitter too.
"That girl thinks she's the queen of the neighbourhood, well I've got news for you... SHE IS!" ~Bikini Kill, Rebel Girl