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    BB> Simple answer here, I just stopped listening to all of them. :)   
    BB> Yeah, I'm failing my civic duty because 'every vote counts."   Haa,   
    BB> I say Haa!   Man talk about a line of bs, put that one at the top!   
      
    RW> YEah I know, and it just gets worse.  I go pull mylever or   
    RW> mark my ballot, and it gets tossed anyway if i didn't vote   
    RW> for one of the majors.  I'll occasionally get my choice as a senator or   
    RW> congress critter, but the whole system has become morally and ethically   
    RW> bankrupt.  AS I said, a society that   
    RW> is hellbent on defecating on its young.  A whole generation   
    RW> of "to hell with you i got mine."  Great place my grandson   
    RW> gets to live in.  Yet we tell him his vote counts, he's   
    RW> supposed to be a good little citizen adn do what he's told.   
      
   I stopped pulling the lever. :)  Gotta save my energy for something productive.   
      
    RW> The trouble is, this baby boomer believed all the hype and   
    RW> bought in.  I figure at least I got lucky and was raised   
    RW> during its glory days when, as the song says "the future's   
    RW> so bright I gotta wear shades."  That was before some greedy old rich   
    RW> men decided they had theirs and the future didn't   
    RW> matter. Bring back King Ronnie the first!!!   
      
      
    I'm even better off than you are, having lived through what was maybe the best   
   times ever - that period from about 1946 up to the mid'70s or so.   Good thing   
   was back when I entered the labor market for what would become my career, it   
   was with telco which paid a very good wage, had benefits, job security and   
   based on all that the average dude could buy a home, a car, and with luck even   
   a few bucks left over for a meal out now and again.   
      
   Not many jobs out there like that right now.  Even telco is slowly phasing out   
   union represented workers.  It'll take a while, but the trend is there.   
      
      
      
      
       
       
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