Vote today... Mitt Romney or Barack Obama

[Peter Breuninger]

Let's see how close we are to the popular vote...opps I typo'd the pres. It's BARACK, sorry Mr. President.

 

[amirm]

I hope everyone in US votes (I mean the real elections ). We have had many close elections of late so everyone may count. We put ours in the mail a couple of days ago (our deadline is Nov. 6th). I must say, the process does take time as due to obscure local initiatives and smaller elections. But nothing that some online searching doesn't uncover.

 

[Peter Breuninger]

I love to vote. It's one little voice that does indeed count. I live in a super affluent township on the somewhat lesser (affluent) side of the dividing road. M. Night Shyamalan, lives down the street on the "other" side of the road (he bought a duPont estate). We form two lines in the school where we vote, the left hand line is for the M. Nights, the right hand line for more regular people. It's the one time of the year where we get to see each other live and in person and not passing by in an S Class. I love it because OUR LINE IS SHORTER, hehehe!

 

[Gregadd]

I vote that every citizen has a living wage, owns a home and has access to decent medical care.

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

I vote that every citizen has a living wage, owns a home and has access to decent medical care.

I'd drop the "owns a home." You can make a living wage and not be able to afford to own a home. And the repercussions of making home ownership falsely affordable to millions who can't really afford it are weighing heavily on the world economy right now. I'd just include rent in that living wage. And I'd add "affordable" to access to medical care. Actually, define "living wage" properly and the rest takes care of itself.

Tim

 

[edorr]

I vote that every citizen has a living wage, owns a home and has access to decent medical care.

This would require a redistrubution of income on a scale that would make the Cuban revolution seem like a walk in the park. Aint going to happen in our lifetime. Probaby a lot easier to just move to Sweden if it wasn't so bloody cold.

 

[rockitman]

I'm voting the way this girl would on Halloween. Girl #1 trick or treats for 1/2 hour and has 50 pieces of candy. Girl #2 trick or treats for 2 hours and has 200 pieces of candy. Mom comes in and says to daughter #2, please give 100 pieces of candy to your sister who only has 50 pieces. Daughter 2 says why ? I don't like that....Mom says, I am just spreading the wealth darling. I wonder how girl #2 would vote ?

 

[edorr]

I'm voting the way this girl would on Halloween. Girl #1 trick or treats for 1/2 hour and has 50 pieces of candy. Girl #2 trick or treats for 2 hours and has 200 pieces of candy. Mom comes in and says to daughter #2, please give 100 pieces of candy to your sister who only has 50 pieces. Daughter 2 says why ? I don't like that....Mom says, I am just spreading the wealth darling. I wonder how girl #2 would vote ?

What if girls 1 was trick or treating for 4 hours in the blistering cold in the hood in Chicago and collected 10 pieces, and girl 2 was driven around in a subdivision in Greewich Connecticut for 1 hour in her mom's Cadillac Escalade and collected 100 pieces?

 

[rockitman]

What if girls 1 was trick or treating for 4 hours in the blistering cold in the hood in Chicago and collected 10 pieces, and girl 2 was driven around in a subdivision in Greewich Connecticut for 1 hour in her mom's Cadillac Escalade and collected 100 pieces?

I'd say girl 2 has got it better. That is life.

 

[edorr]

I'd say girl 2 has got it better. That is life.

The question is would you vote for the guy that qualifies girl 1 as a leeching 47%'er or the guy that is proposing girl 2 chips in a few candies so girl one can buy health insurance.....

 

[FrantzM]

Interesting: The order in which the candidates names are listed doesn't follow the alphabetical order ... Freudian slip?

 

[flez007]

Usually Politics and Religious conversations end bad

 

[Keith_W]

Won't end bad if people behave themselves

 

[Peter Breuninger]

Interesting: The order in which the candidates names are listed doesn't follow the alphabetical order ... Freudian slip?

Perhaps the vbulletin system ordered them by net worth?

 

[edorr]

Won't end bad if people behave themselves

True. When Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart can pull off a civilized debate there is hope. Things tend to get nasty when people get religeous about their politics are political about their religion.

 

[jazdoc]

I'm voting the way this girl would on Halloween. Girl #1 trick or treats for 1/2 hour and has 50 pieces of candy. Girl #2 trick or treats for 2 hours and has 200 pieces of candy. Mom comes in and says to daughter #2, please give 100 pieces of candy to your sister who only has 50 pieces. Daughter 2 says why ? I don't like that....Mom says, I am just spreading the wealth darling. I wonder how girl #2 would vote ?

Here's a one view of what would happen with 'candy redistribution'...

 

[Peter Breuninger]

Here's a one view of what would happen with 'candy redistribution'...

I love this video! Of course, I cannot go on record saying this.

 

[Gregadd]

Rent equals mortgage+maintenance + profit +i insurance+tax and insurance. So mortgage is cheaper.

Home prices were artificially appreciated to support home equity loans. We easily promote home ownership coming out of WWII.

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

Rent equals mortgage+maintenance + profit +i insurance+tax and insurance. So mortgage is cheaper.

Home prices were artificially appreciated to support home equity loans. We easily promote home ownership coming out of WWII.

There's an awful lot to the housing bubble that is missing from your explanation, Greg. And we'll need to be building an awful lot of subsidized affordable housing before your math adds up to anything cheap enough for the average service economy worker to buy.

Tim

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

Here's a one view of what would happen with 'candy redistribution'...

The problem with this POV, to give it far too much credit,is that it's...oh, what's the politically correct way to put this...I should have learned this watching the debates..."untrue?" That'll do.all obama is proposing is letting some temporary tax cuts expire, leaving us with what will still be the lowest permanent top tax rate in decades. Whether or not it is the right thing for the economy at this time is another subject. whether or not we need a completely different tax system is a whole other can of worms, but it is not re-distribution of wealth. It' is, in fact, letting a temporary re-distribution come to it's planned and timely end.

Tim