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Thread ID: 119105 2011-07-05 00:29:00 Dominion of New Zealand Roscoe (6288) PC World Chat
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1214970 2011-07-06 21:27:00 Former isreli president
www.reuters.com

Why would we want a president, if that's what they do?
Cicero (40)
1214971 2011-07-07 11:49:00 If you live in South Canterbury you get a holiday on the 26th September Dally (6292)
1214972 2011-07-07 12:42:00 I'm certain that were we to become a republic, we would celebrate it.
I doubt it .I suspect we would curse it for what it cost compared to what we would get.
mikebartnz (21)
1214973 2011-07-07 12:44:00 The MMP concept is so flawed that a single vote does not matter, so again, who cares anyway?
Do you really think there is a voting system where a single vote really matters.:illogical
mikebartnz (21)
1214974 2011-07-08 06:08:00 Do you really think there is a voting system where a single vote really matters.:illogical

No, but almost anything is better than MMP. The ridding of list candidates also helps.
Cato (6936)
1214975 2011-07-08 23:28:00 Do you really think there is a voting system where a single vote really matters.:illogical

If nobody casts a single vote, then what, so it must matter!
Cicero (40)
1214976 2011-07-10 23:27:00 If nobody casts a single vote, then what, so it must matter!

Equally if only one valid vote is cast, that person's vote settles the issue.

The problem is that all votes are considered equal, and yet all people have different abilities and intellect.

Democracy:

The outcome of a decision being settled by the votes of 10 wise men and 11 idiots - although generally the proportion of idiots is higher -

In a democracy, the winners are politicians, the voters are the losers.
KenESmith (6287)
1214977 2011-07-10 23:43:00 In a democracy, the winners are politicians, the voters are the losers.
I seem to remember old Winston Churchill had something clever to say on the subject of our democracy. Something along the lines of it not being perfect but the best of a bad bunch.
mikebartnz (21)
1214978 2011-07-10 23:51:00 I found it.

Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
mikebartnz (21)
1214979 2011-07-11 01:02:00 I found it.

I was just going to say that !
Cicero (40)
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