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ronron
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Posted: Sun Apr 20th, 2008 04:00 pm |
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Wouldn't it be nice to have ONE Nation Wide website Forum, where every American could go to and make their voices heard.
Every city in the Untied States has a forum like this one, I wish they could all be linked to one site, so if we ever decided to send a STRONG message to Our Government.... Oil Companies .... and who ever else that thinks they own us,We could organize a America Stay at Home Day.
The only reason lobbyist voices are heard louder than ours, is the lobbyist are there in the governments face every day , our voice is in the form of an e-mail or talking to a assistant, the ones we want to talk to never hear our VOICE.
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Wild H Woman
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Posted: Sun Apr 20th, 2008 04:07 pm |
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I love your idea ronron, however, we, citizens, already have the opportunity to vote for elected officials. That is a very good way to send a message to all politicians. Unfortunately, many people don't vote for a variety of reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if the same people that exercised their right to a vote wouldn't be the same to use a forum, leaving out the same Americans that also didn't go to the polls on election day.
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ronron
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Posted: Sun Apr 20th, 2008 05:12 pm |
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I think if we were able to iner-act with our Government it would make politics more interesting.
Example: on the State level, all registered voters in the state of Georgia would use their social security number as their ID and a Pin number given to you by the state, for your Password.
When they come up with something to be voted on, they post it, You and I log on and cast a yea or nay vote to let them know if we like it or don't like it.
This would help the ones we elected, they would have a true poll of what the voters think.
I think if there was something like this it would encourage more people to vote and I know from being on this forum it would become habit forming, because I keep saying I'm tired of everyone arguing with each other, we are acomplishing nothing, I'm going to stop coming back, but I can't I keep coming back.
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Wild H Woman
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Posted: Sun Apr 20th, 2008 05:29 pm |
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You mean like we vote for each bill in the house to signal our legislators our desire?
LOL. I'm sorry, ronron..... I'm not laughing at your idea at all, but I kind of got this vision of us "Idolizing" our political system.... i.e. just as the television show,American Idol, takes text messages to vote on a winner.... only we'd be sending poll data via a forum to our Congressmen on how to vote on specific legislation. Yep, you're right.... it would probably spice it up a little bit. As a nation, we would, of course, out of fairness, have to furnish each voter a personal computer and internet access.....
The bigger question your post presents, though......
Why is this discussion forum so addictive??????
Last edited on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 05:38 pm by Wild H Woman
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Deaglos
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Posted: Mon Apr 21st, 2008 02:08 pm |
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Hell it is hard to keep up with a one region forum, could you imagine reading all the posts on just one thread of a national forum.
I think after the first five minutes and seeing 4000+ posts I would quit.
But idea is sound just well hard to keep up.
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NewsChick
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Posted: Mon Apr 21st, 2008 02:24 pm |
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| Sounds like something similar to Topix .... which is a horrible site, in my humble opinion.
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