>>Hey.......that gives me an idea! Does one have to be an actual CA resident to enter this game, uh, er,..."race"?
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>>Steven-
>>P.S. FWIW, I'm leaning toward that big-boobed chick with the pink Corvette. Know her? Could you hook me up? I'm sure she'd like me if she'd just get to know me...
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>Good morning Steven;
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>I would not be in the least bit surprised if Arnold wins, as he has name and high visual recognition. As for the other five hundred or so candidates who are running, are they really serious? The clown who started the whole event dropped out of the race yesterday. Start a fire and run!
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>Getting back to another inexperienced man who ran for governor against governor Pat Brown in the 1960’s. Pat Brown built the hiway and water systems as well as the junior colleges and brought many jobs to California.
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>The man who ran against Pat Brown was named Ronald Reagan. Reagan accused Brown of “spending too much money” ($4 billion state budget) “California had too many state employees” and Reagan promised to “reduce the number of state employees to reduce the state budget”. When Reagan left office as governor of California the states budget was $25 billion, the number of state employees had doubled and there was little to show for all the money spent! Well we did have higher taxes!
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>When Reagan (who was once a democrat) ran for president of the United States, he made the same speech – reduce the size of government and reduce the budget. When Reagan got through with the federal government the number of federal government employees had doubled, as well as the national debt had also doubled. The rich were richer and the poor were you know what.
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>There is a reality to politics and it seems if you know how to smile and make people happy they love to be screwed and never realize it. In fact we idolize those that screw us the most. Democracy in action is no more than a reactive political system that is based upon the ignorance and emotion of the populace.
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>Tom


Gawd! I feel so 'trickled' on... :-(

Steven-
(Seriously Tom, I do catch your drift here. Our 'democracy in action' often appears to be the Homo sapiens equivalent of a Jane Goodall documentary.)