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I think you're smart to

Michael Maiello — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:50:46 +0000

I think you're smart to target small donations to small races. I see very little ROI in even giving the maximum to say, a Congressional race. The maximum allowed is too small to make a difference. The real money flows from PAC and party.

To your last point, you'd think that voting should be participation enough for the needs of the majority to be heard. But, on one hand, big money interests buy extra influence while, at the same time, doing everything they can to make voting difficult.

That has got to be the

Richard Day — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:00:04 +0000

In reply to I've always liked the story-

That has got to be the funniest line I have read in a long long time.

hahahahahhahaha

He fought hard to make

trkingmomoe — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 05:18:21 +0000

In reply to Wow..

He fought hard to make education compulsory and to end child labor. That is what his "more" was all about, making things better for families.

Wow..

Flavius — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 01:14:54 +0000

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Wow..

Samuel Gompers was a friend

trkingmomoe — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:41:49 +0000

In reply to I've always liked the story-

Samuel Gompers was a friend of La Folette. The founder of the AFL.

"What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails; more school books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures; to make manhood more noble; womanhood more beautiful; childhood more happy and bright."

This was one of the quotes that was used on my grandson's history fair project last month.

"The man who has millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."

That is my favorite one.

I give to a few before

trkingmomoe — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:17:37 +0000

In reply to Why Don't Overworked, Underpaid People Get Involved In Politics?

I give to a few before elections but it is usually just $3-5 and it is usually for local races. I also help get people to the poles that are my neighbors. I talk politics all the time to neighbors because they ask me questions and want to know what I think about things. I have a Latino neighbors so right now the big questions is about immigration.

I am thinking about all the things that have been done to us here locally with voter suppression, losing school buses and no Medicaid. Yet there seems to be an effort to vote and most is struggling to make rent. There is no perception here, it is the real thing.

They make voting very inconvenient. You have to be very committed to vote now.

I've always liked the story-

Flavius — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:08:08 +0000

In reply to Why Don't Overworked, Underpaid People Get Involved In Politics?

I've always liked the story- I hope it's true-that when Samuel Gompers was asked

But what does Labor want?

His answer was

More

I am not sure if this is on

Richard Day — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:37:51 +0000

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I am not sure if this is on point, and I do not wish to embarrass myself with personal financial information, but I receive at least ten requests for funds in my Email every damn day.

Stupidity is supposedly defined as performing the same behavior over and over to no avail.

Do not these idiots see that I have no discretionary income?

I just cannot bring myself to label all these requests as spam; at least when the sender is some left wing cause.

I am fine, I fulfill all my 'needs' anyway but if I responded to all these requests, I could not pay my rent, let alone go to the grocers.

I was thinking that a father with two children and making 60g's a year certainly would never send monies to some political group, let alone 'adopt' some poor child who resides in a foreign nation.

But hell, it takes a couple of clicks on a keyboard to advertise to a hundred million folks.

So they just keep on fishing.

The messaging is of import of course.

Otherwise we would not have a Democratic President.

That is all I have before lunch.

hahaha

Telling people the truth can

Verified Atheist — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:00:05 +0000

In reply to Why Don't Overworked, Underpaid People Get Involved In Politics?

Telling people the truth can be bad advertising.

I think anyone on Madison Avenue could've told you that.