SpeedRacer 1 #1 January 31, 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,106 #2 January 31, 2010 Quotehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm Absolutely true. (I think I wrote something to that effect several years back).... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #3 February 1, 2010 "If people vote against their own interests, it is not because they do not understand what is in their interest or have not yet had it properly explained to them. They do it because they resent having their interests decided for them by politicians who think they know best."Many also do it because they have the intelligence and integrity to know that voting for a new benefit for themselves is not necessarily what's in the best interests of the country as a whole. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeorgiaDon 379 #4 February 1, 2010 Of course, there's always this too. Don_____________________________________ Tolerance is the cost we must pay for our adventure in liberty. (Dworkin, 1996) “Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” (Yeats) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abuaeden 0 #5 February 3, 2010 Quote"If people vote against their own interests, it is not because they do not understand what is in their interest or have not yet had it properly explained to them. They do it because they resent having their interests decided for them by politicians who think they know best."Many also do it because they have the intelligence and integrity to know that voting for a new benefit for themselves is not necessarily what's in the best interests of the country as a whole. Stop making sense! This is a political discussion! Seriously, someone pointed this article out to me when trying to convince me that anyone who is opposed to the current health care reform bill is just being spiteful. Can you imagine where civil rights legislation would be in the US if people didn't vote for what was right and only voted for their best interests? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #6 February 3, 2010 well, getting rid of segregation was both 1) right and 2) in the American people's best interest. If people weren't too dumb to realize that, we would have never needed to enact the civil rights legislation. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,073 #7 February 3, 2010 >well, getting rid of segregation was both 1) right and 2) in the >American people's best interest. Most people in the US disagreed with 2) at the time it was passed. They were convinced that blacks would have sex with white women, drive down standards of decency and morality, be lazy shiftless parasites etc etc. That's an example where you had to do what was right even if most people disagreed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #8 February 3, 2010 Quote>well, getting rid of segregation was both 1) right and 2) in the >American people's best interest. Most people in the US disagreed with 2) at the time it was passed. They were convinced that blacks would have sex with white women, Well, that happened now didn't it? And the result was a bunch of uppity mulattoes who thought they could do shit like run for President. Hell in a handbasket. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
