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What? You mean they actually have to work at getting votes? You should send them to England, Where they can toady their way into the EU Parliament. Nobody there is voted in. You just have to implement ALL EU directives, to the detrement of the people you're supposed to represent, & they'll give you a job for life, with salaries beyond your wildest dreams. :curse:

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Sounds a lot like our Senate.................an old guys club that does nothing worthwhile except suck up vast amounts of money. It is an appointed position and no one really cares to show up, just collect the cash. A short time ago there was a big hubbub over a Senate member Living in Florida and rarely making it back to Canada to do his well paid "JOB". Health reasons were cited for his lack of performance. Even if he had retired from the Senate his pensions and built-in perks would have been astounding.

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The only function of a politician is to first get himself elected, then to get himself re-elected. And any bribes, contributions, kickbacks, favors, that have to be repaid, are all welcome, accepted, and anticipated. There is no government OF the people any more, special interests and big business have it made. They have many more bucks than you and me and can buy the government and reap the rewards while screwing everyone below them and the competition. Big oil, healthcare companies, banks come to mind first.
Look at Florida politics right now. 2 absolute billionaires are spending their own fortunes buying a senate seat and the governor's mansion, using no previous experience or knowledge of government function, no concrete beneficial ideas, waging real nasty demeaning derogatory campaigns against their opponents. Both of these guys got their money in suspect ways, one was the CEO of a healthcare company that was fined $1.7 Billion dollars for medicare fraud, the other made his money by investing in the financial derivatives involving the housing market bust and foreclosures. And with a billion or more dollars in the bank, why would they want to do this anyway, except to stroke their own ego, And either one of them could possible win over their valued opponents, which is the real tragedy.
End of rant, time to go out for a ride.

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Is this the Yahoo.News comments section?

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No, this is the "why us honest folk could never be politicians" section!

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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) once referred to Congress as "That grand old benevolent asylum for the helpless" where they can "Talk for a week without getting rid of an idea". The more things change, the more they stay the same. Clemens died in 1910, and his comments were made some years before that.

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I would hope. :roll:

:crackup

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He also wrote that he was going to leave his skull to science so that they could study it................

and send him a report.

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deleted, you wouldn't believe me anyway.

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We would! We would! Would YOU lie? :2tup: