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NOT VOTING FOR OBAMA... I changed my mind

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TraceOneInfinite:
I was thinking of ways to make money and nearly every way I could think of involved selling my soul and working for some government program, government project, government funded employer...   I even considered the fucking military which is just raping Iraq and Afganistan and many other countries... 

If we don't do something about this, pretty soon every job, major corporation, and business available to work for will be attatched to the government and subsidized and overseen by the government.  My job now for example, I work in health care, and it's so screwed up because it's not even about providing proper care to the sick... but rather it's about covering you own ass and following government laws, guidelines, mandates, that hospitals have to follow to keep recieving money from the government. 

...so then I look to work somewhere else, and everything I can think of is just more of the same, more government employment, more boondoggles, and so on...

Not to mention I was recently catching up with some old friends from high school and they are all working in education (government education) or for insurance companies, drug companies, and complaining about all the bureaucracy and such that government brings.


I don't care who's name is beside the ticket...  MY VOTE WILL BE FOR THE LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE OR CONSTITUTION PARTY CANDIDATE WHOEVER IT IS AND I DON'T CARE WHO WINS OR LOSES!

...I don't know that my vote is worth that much but at least my support is one drop in the bucket.  Peace.

Javier:
lol drug companies and insurance health care companies are complaining about the government limiting their ability to fuck more people. 

virtuoso:

The pharma giants are more than happy with the government beaurocracy's, with the drive of big pharma, governments are being lobbied to ban hundreds and hundreds of vitamins because ooh those evil vitamins. Meanwhile of course the FDA rubber stamped Vioxx to come out in the market despite the studies which both it carried out and the tests undertaken by the manufacturer which had concluded the drug was deadly. The end result was over a hundred thousand people dead, slight side effects including hearts exploding. Even if big government is well intentioned, in the end it becomes the enemy of a free market and the darling of the established monopoly or oligopoly.

Primo:
write in ron paul.

The King:
It's admirable that you've decided to not vote for the Democratic or Republican nominee. But the fact remains, it's a two party system, and one of those parties will win. Voting for any other party is essentially throwing away your vote.

Look what happened in 2000, people voted for Nader, and some would argue, he stole votes from Gore. Even though Gore technically won anyways. The point is, Obama isn't that great, but McCain is worse. It's Obama or McCain. If you don't vote Obama, you automatically prefer McCain. And vis versa. Vote for the lesser of two evils. Voting for a 3rd party may make you feel like you did the right thing, but if the right person (Obama) doesn't win, you'll regret your vote for the rest of your life. McCain is a joke, and if he wins, America is screwed.

People do this all the time in Canada. BC has the Marijuana party, which only issue is to legalize marijuana. And every election it gets a noticeable chunk of the vote, which may or may not affect who actually wins. We basically have a 5 party system, one party usually gets around 40%, and the rest usually split around 15% each. We have too many parties, and it often gets confusing who to vote for. Especially if your voting against something, rather then for something.

It's McCain vs Obama. Voting for anyone else wouldn't be productive, because no matter what happens, a 3rd party will never win, nor will the system ever allow a 3 or more part system. Vote for the better man, for the sake of your country. Obama may not be what everyone thinks he will be, but it's far better then letting McCain steal the election.

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