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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER
i wish i coudl say it was jsut new jersey, but i have family in NC, MO, and upstate NY. they are all getting ****ed over by their elected officials too.
wayfast, good drama queen statement. there is hope, because there are elections. teh tough part is finding someone who has the balls to follow through on whatever they promise during the campaign.
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None of them have balls. Never will. Even if they do when they 1st get elected, they quickly get neutered by 'the system'. You would need to elect a whole bunch of politicians with balls all at once so they could actually take action. But that won’t happen.
Too many people are like ground hogs; they vote based on if they see their shadow or something. They latch onto one issue, say abortion, and complete ignore all other traits of all the candidates, including the one they vote for. I’m not picking on right to life/right to choose people; they just make an easy example. What is even dumber is when fringe issues like that impact elections that have nothing to do with it; like voting for a mayoral candidate because of his stance on abortion. They have no power over it!
Politicians are smart, they find what amounts to fringe issues that gain publicity but mean very little in the big picture. Notice how the ‘estate tax’ is now the ‘death tax’? It impacts like 1% of the population (people with sizable estates – I forget the actual figure), but you see it in ads. People hear ‘death tax’ and they jump – even if they are broke.
They all suck.
Look at my town, Hamilton. Mayor Happy Gilmore is busy trying to push redevelopment down the throats of the ‘poorer’ sections of town in the name of ratables (while ignoring traffic woes, impact on schools, etc.). Meanwhile, the republicans in town are busy fighting it – the same group that got run out of town a few years ago largely due to corruption, according to people I have spoken to (I’m only here 6 years). But none of them even speak of the true root problem – the entire way we generate revenue & spend money in this state. This town is one of the biggest jurisdictions in the state, so we should have some push at a state level. I know GG won’t push, because he is in bed with county & state dems – he is their boy, like when he fired Benecard from the town during the last Senate election – you know, the company owned by the Republican challenger Doug Forrester. But what did Hamilton get for shilling for the dems? A denial for additional state funds. Great. But I do not hear anything for the republicans running on the bigger picture. To be honest, I don’t trust them either. They all suck.
And don’t even get me going on the sink hole that is education and education funding.