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EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#201: Mar 21st 2011 at 1:38:26 AM

Snyder was considered less evil... because he didn't promise to increase the number of good-paying jobs in state? surprised

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#202: Mar 21st 2011 at 3:04:52 AM

If somebody promises to build a free energy device and the other guy doesn't, who do you vote for?

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JosefBugman Since: Nov, 2009
#203: Mar 21st 2011 at 4:51:30 AM

Do you mean a device that gives energy for free, or a perpetual motion machine?

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#204: Mar 21st 2011 at 6:10:49 AM

Does it matter? but I meant the second

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EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#206: Mar 21st 2011 at 10:27:24 AM

I'd vote for the guy who promises to break thermodynamics, because Rule of Cool.

JosefBugman Since: Nov, 2009
#207: Mar 21st 2011 at 10:30:20 AM

Then you clearly vote for the guy that can't. The other one is using sorcery/ breaking a very basic law of the universe and as such is probably lying to you.

edited to make sense.

edited 21st Mar '11 10:42:55 AM by JosefBugman

tnu1138 Dracula Since: Apr, 2009
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#208: Mar 21st 2011 at 10:31:34 AM

Deceitful politicians, big surprise that one.

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#209: Mar 21st 2011 at 10:33:12 AM

Right. If Virg Bernero (the democrat who ran against Snyder) had come up with a job plan that seemed realistic and forward looking, he would have gotten a lot more support than he did. Instead he choose to run in part against union bashing, which is ok so far as it goes, but doesn't constitute a plan to revitalize Michigan.

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#210: Mar 21st 2011 at 2:45:29 PM

You'd think the last 30 years of Republican policies would've been enough warning...

—R.J.

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
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#211: Mar 21st 2011 at 2:50:02 PM

You would think decades of any politician would have been enough warning.

Who watches the watchmen?
EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#212: Mar 21st 2011 at 7:31:17 PM

@De Marquis: Getting people jobs is a revitalization plan, and one that allows people to invest in their neighborhoods instead of tearing them down to build condos or whatever the hell they're going to do in Detroit.

BlackHumor Since: Jan, 2001
#213: Mar 21st 2011 at 8:37:03 PM

But the point is, get people jobs how?

Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
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#214: Mar 21st 2011 at 8:51:39 PM

Massive construction initiatives? Like maybe a train network?

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BlackHumor Since: Jan, 2001
#215: Mar 21st 2011 at 8:56:40 PM

Great, but did he (that is, Virg Benero) say that, or are you saying that?

EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#216: Mar 21st 2011 at 8:59:57 PM

Well, a bunch of Republican governors have refused federal funding for HSR, but I can't get a straight story on whether or not Snyder did the same.

Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
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#217: Mar 21st 2011 at 9:14:24 PM

I'm saying it. I'm in Milwaukee, where governor dick wad tried to use the HSR money from the Federal government to build more roads, even though we don't need more roads, we need repaired roads.

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Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
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#218: Mar 22nd 2011 at 1:20:55 AM

Virg could have promised the world and would have lost simply because he was a democrat, and everyone blamed the problems in Michigan on the current party.

It happens EVERY TIME.

Current party, even if its not even responsible, during an economic downturn or whatever loses.

Same as the inverse.

Its why the 2 party system is such bullcrap.

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#219: Mar 22nd 2011 at 10:41:32 AM

Well, that, and no one has a memory over two months.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#220: Mar 22nd 2011 at 11:15:12 AM

Or the most recent scandal. Which ever comes first.

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#221: Mar 22nd 2011 at 11:19:48 AM

[up][up][up]Nazis elected through plurality election system without getting a majority vote. Your argument is now null.

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tnu1138 Dracula Since: Apr, 2009
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#222: Mar 22nd 2011 at 11:21:57 AM

Mob rule is not a good idea as it allows a majority to violate the rights of the minority. No better then an oligarchy This is why a Republic is the only logical form of government and that it should be a Federation and not a Nation.

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#224: Mar 22nd 2011 at 11:28:58 AM

[up]Partially. It's just that people rag on the two party system all of the time without ever offering an alternative.

Plus, why ever pass up a chance to bring up Godwin's Law?

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001

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