Vote

[Guest041014-2]

I don't care for whom. Who voted today?

[bartipero]

I did, but I find the ones with the most to lose usually don't. You can effect more policy or prevent damage to yourself than you realize when you vote and then back it up by reminding the recipients of those votes what is expected. More than anything they want their next term and the squeaky wheel gets the grease more than any lobbyist or campaign check can ever deliver--because they don't guarantee a vote for or against that person. You do.

[Guest102513-1]

Good night to be an American...not a bad night to be a Democrat, lol

Lots of work ahead...hopefully somehow, some way the politicans will now start being leaders, rather than politicans.

Final answers are not held exclusively by one side or the other. Effective answers will be somewhere in between.

My hope is that we can go back to fixing our country...my concern will be politics as usual

I hope the theme song for tonight will not be Talking Heads "Same as it ever was"...but only time will tell

Final thought...at least that clown running for Mo Senate, did not win!!!!

Now back to SHBM business...did anybody see the thread I started in the Sandbox last week, LOL

[KCQuestor]

I'm on the board of directors for a charity group and we had a big vote scheduled for tonight that would change our charter and decide the focus of our group for the next five years. We had a long meeting with debates and discussions before the voting at 10:00 pm tonight. At 10:30, after we had counted the ballots and celebrated getting our new charter passed by the members, one of the board members said "Hey what happened with that other election tonight?"

[BigWayne]

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson


A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James Madison

We aren't the first generation to grapple over some of the issues predominant in this election. Here's hoping the President will preside over four better years in his second term.