OT: Candidates Trying to Turn Out the Vote of Those Who Live in Parents’ Baseme

16 comments

• steve229

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  10 years ago

  What do you guys think - will sausage fingers be the one's casting the deciding vote?
• Dougster

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  10 years ago

  Oh my. Now steve has stepped up to citing the WSJ in his cherry picked headline quoting/argument by authority. I'm pretty danged convinced now that the economy really does suck. How about the rest of you?
• san_jose_guy

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  10 years ago

  Young low income people usually do not vote. On many issues they are quite liberal. So I welcome any move to get them to the polls.
  
  SJG
• deogol

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  10 years ago

  Why would they vote for more of the same?
• san_jose_guy

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  10 years ago

  People would vote for a more progressive slate of candidates, so that we can have more good jobs created, a social safety net, and to be sure that the Affordable Care Act works and that gaps in it are taken care of. And then also, to wind down these overseas military adventures. Right now these are keeping the unemployment rate down, but this is not the right way of meeting that objective.
  
  President Obama has done much, but he is not a dictator, he is a Constitutional President. To go further there need to be changes in the Congress and at the State level. We need to be making structural economic changes, not just boosting for another speculative bubble. This neo-liberal agenda has run for decades now and it has turned things from bad to worse.
  
  Here is an excellent book which shows a different vision:
  http://www.amazon.com/European-Dream-Eur…
  
  SJG
  
  Cornel West and Michael Moore
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTUtvL9FD…
• Dougster

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  10 years ago

  Lol !
• farmerart

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  10 years ago

  Time for some tough love from Mommy and Daddy.
• impala

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  10 years ago

  Remember, our founding fathers originally wanted to required you to be a landholder to be able to vote. It was because if you owned land you were usually educated and could make a well reasoned decision.
• PhantomGeek

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  10 years ago

  Impala, was the electoral college their work-around for that?
• SlickSpic

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  10 years ago

  Already voted by absentee ballot. No on almost everything.
• steve229

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  10 years ago

  When will voters start giving Obama credit for the economic boom??
• SlickSpic

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  10 years ago

  When he returns that Peace Prize.
• Dougster

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  10 years ago

  I find it quite amusing to note all the logical fallacies in the way stevie-girl thinks.
  
  a) Cherry picking headline to quote to feed her confirmation bias.
  
  b) Argument by authority: "business insider, a highly respectable source, says X; therefore X."
  
  c) Thinking things like the president, the balance of power between Repubs and Democrats in the house and the senate and political policy have a big influence on the state of the economy: post hoc ergo propter hoc.
  
  Here's a hint stevie-girl. Who the president is and what the political policies are have very little influence on the state of the economy. What really determines it? Tell you what. First you convince me you can even grok supply and demand and tell you. :-)
  
  Until then, keep thinking that read headlines in the financial media about things in the past and getting hyped up about politics is the best way to determine (the future state of the economy). Don't consider forward looking things like how Biotech stocks are doing for a glimpse of what is to come. :-)
  
• san_jose_guy

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  10 years ago

  LIke with most third world countries, we are developing into a two tier society. Of course this will continue to support the expansion of the sex industry. And of course it is highly destructive to our democracy as well.
  
  SJG
• Dougster

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  10 years ago

  Lol!
• Dougster

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  10 years ago

  GLOBAL MILLENIAL DOOM!
  
  Because Stevie-girl said so!