From the view points of a voter or taypayer (see the questions below)?
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People need to elect leaders that actually want to do a job, not just pose for photo opportunities.  Katrina would have been bad, but resources could have and SHOULD have been placed so that they could have been brought in immediately after the hurricane passed.  Lives and billions of dollars in property could have been saved.  Also, people need to get a realistic appreciation of money--it is good for what its spent on.  Saving money by not reinforcing levees at New Orleans, or at Sacramento, Ca., is equivalent to a homeowner saving money by not putting on a roof.  OK, you saved a billion dollars by not fixing the N.O. levees, and now you get to pay 200 times that much to repair the damage.  It is not that hard to figure out. Voters are propagandized by the republican media but they better figure things out fast.
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VOTING!   Besides that, you can contact your rep's, contribute  time and/or money to candidates that have similar beliefs as you do, etc...
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It would depend on the question I think. Most of the questions on these pages are about how great George Bush is, or Clinton got a BJ. Any real problems are ignored, or reported to Yahoo from crying whiners. So I take on myself to find out the facts. I have only one vote, and I am going to use it for the good of our Country. Poverty and inflation isn't what I will be voting for.
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I wanted to balance out the viewpoints on the answers for you. please check out the links.
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Yes, how can we be a country of the people if the people don't talk.  I might not agree with others but they should vote to make sure the people's will is being followed.  I like to think I am in the majority, but I do conceed I might not be.
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Great answer from above. Time to vote.
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I was wondering the same thing because I wanted to see if there are others out there who get involved and what that means to different people.\nI vote.
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I consider myself to be a TRUE republican, and I make it a point to vote every four years for our president. I did vote for Bush and would vote for him again. All my years of voting, I have never voted democratic and don't feel that I ever would. My view on most democrats is that they work too hard to give our hard earned dollars to welfare recipients. I realize there are many women who will need welfare assistance to get on their feet, and that's fine, but there needs to be a limit on how long and how much they can receive. I promise to vote at the next presidential elections.
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As a fellow Australian who do you mean by 'them'? Are we talking Labour/ Liberal? or something more extreme? because there is not a great deal of difference between our two biggest parties, and even when you vote for someone else 'preferences' help one of the two get in anyway.
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I agree with most of what you say.  Yes, vote.  However, don't vote with your heart so much as with your mind.  Feelings come and go.  Truth is eternal.
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A view to a compromise.
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Vote..the same.  But SUPPORT it is the rich as the money that they donate can be used to buy the vote of the poor.
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I'm a Libertarian, so I  vote my principles. Fiscally conservative, but socially tolerant. Sometimes the Repubs are the best sometimes its the Demos. I prefer to vote for Libertarians when I can though.
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Tim O'Reilly, one of the biggest proponents, has a nice article defining what its supporters say it is. (Link below)\n\nThe Register polled its users and got a slightly more cynical take. (Other link below)\n\nThe truth can be gleaned between the two - chances are, depending on who you talk to, they mean one of these two stances.
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I Dont Think Anything Needs Said In This Thread\nThe Asker HasDone A Fine Job Answering His Own Question Raising All The Right Points\n\nYour Views Are The Same As Most \nTaxpaying Citizens Iliana0058
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Voting Democrat, because the GOP are all, or nearly all, greasy amoral scumbags who have auctioned off our country to corporate lobbyists.\n\nAm I thrilled with the Dems?  No.  Do they represent "my values"?  No.  But we have 2 viable choices in this country, and that basically always means choosing the lesser of two evils.  Just shows what a miserable system it is.\n\nP.S. If the Republicans are the party of "personal responsibility" (pause for laughter), then Bush ought to repeal his tax cuts for the mega-wealthy in order to pay for his hugely expensive war of choice.  Because it's really not a question of who will pay - WE will, sooner or later - and you do understand that these are RECORD deficits - it's a question of who hands us the bill, and I feel that it ought to be the guy who ran up the tab.  That sounds like "personal responsibility" to me.\n\nP.P.S. - I can't even begin to imagine the thought process that leads to the conclusion that the GOP is working in the interests of the "middle class worker."  Sorry if you don't like the term "scumbags," but it's descriptive of a fact.
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I like to know about the candidates and their parties before I vote.  I like to vote for both the party and the candidate.  I don't vote Conservative but if there is a good NDP candidate I may vote for them usually the Liberals get my vote.