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• • 05 Feb 06
  • 10:07 am

  There are two things that all of us who are interested in good government should be promoting right now. Forget the rest. If we can't get these two passed you may as well sit by and watch your country crumble. *Term limits for congress. *A no-exemption draft. Every able-bodied person's name gets put in the pot.

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• • 05 Feb 06
  • 11:23 am

  Hey, I like the Green Party, too. Be careful, though, there are two parties that use use "Green" in their name. Here we should be talking about the Green Party US, not "The Greens." Didn't Nader refuse to join the Green Party but thought it OK to run for president on their ticket? I submitted my suggestions for change to the Green Party some time ago. Please go to this site if you'd like to read my proposals: http://lists.gp-us.org/pipermail/iowa-work/2003-November/000505.html

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• • 06 Feb 06
  • 11:54 am

  johnnyincentx... I think you've gotten my post cofused with that of whattheheck, although I think WTH's two additions have a lot of merit. He also seems to understand very well why I'm pushing the two items that I consider essential. I don't understand your comment "...feel good, hit 'em where it counts, revenge type goals..." I'm aiming for good government, nothing more. There's no "feel good" or "hit 'em where it counts" or "revenge" about it. whattheheck... I ought to have made it clear. I would want any draft to have age parameters. I'd think 18-35 would be OK although the …

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• • 06 Feb 06
  • 1:13 pm

  "People rarely object to their OWN long term representative. Can you name more than a handful of instances where people rebelled against THEIR OWN representative for staying in Gov’t. too long. Even many the “term limit” candidates that ran several years ago, have stayed beyond their limits. And you know what their constituants did? They elected them again and again and again. LOL" Exactly. That IS the problem. If lobbyists are so great, why don't we do away with Congress entirely? Let the lobbyists do it. Have you been keeping up with the Jack Abramoff scandal? Do you understand what "earmark" …

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• • 06 Feb 06
  • 2:26 pm

  johnnyincentx... Yes, to me anyone who can't see the necessity for term limits is either uninformed or stupid. Theoretically there is no reason why we can't have people in today's Congress equal in intelligence and experience to those men in the very first congress. There are many, many more people to choose from, many far better educated than the first congressmen. People who have the entire 200 years plus of experience with the Constitution and the functioning government to draw upon. The problem is that the general public is so ignorant they don't make Congress attractive to gifted and honorable people …

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