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Originally Posted by ezrydn
You want change? Thre are only 3 people you have some control over. Your two Senators and your Congressperson. When was the last time you bombarded them with mail, email, phone calls, etc? You may think you have no pull but you really do. It's called "ACTION!" Sitting aroun, passing a dub and talking about it won't get it done.
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I agree with alot of your post but this part I dont. They dont care what I or anyone else thinks. I have piles and piles of form letters thanking me for e-mailing/writing/calling/visiting on issues. And they go right ahead and vote the way they were gonna vote anyway, regardless of what thier consitutients want. I have watched it time and time again. They do this because they know that no one will hold them accountable in any meaningful way. They are at no risk for assasination and for the most part are immune from removal from office.
In the old days of this country, when people had sense and actually gave a shit about the good of country, an elected person who constantly overrode the conensus would be voted out and if he didnt leave he'd be drug out. No way would he be allowed to stay in term and term again because people were too lazy or busy with thier own little patheitc lives to do anything about it. Which is what we have now. Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer are too busy working 80 hours a week to pay for the house and three SUVs and the two kids they cant afford to take the time to stop, watch an election and make an educated choice.
With regard to the arguement over avaliability of ammenities: The number of shopping malls and stores per square mile might actually be important if I was a female running my hubby's credit cards through the roof. But I'm not, so as long as the stuff I need can be procured without a cross country trek, then I am cool with that. I have done enough research to satisfy myself that the goods I consume in daily life can be gotten without much hassle, so who cares if Denver has 3 more bowling alleys and 10 extra resturants.
BA has plenty of resturants and fun things to do, and when I have exhausted them all, guess what I'll do? I'll take a vacation and go somewhere else and go see more intresting and new stuff in other lands. People from the US take vacations all the time both within the country and abroad to see and do things not avaliable to them in thier backyard. So really all thats happened is my departure point will change, so what?
I dont really know how many places you can buy a hamburger in BA, or how many tanning salons there are. But when you think about it, does it really matter? I dont live my life for the next Big Mac, so if there are no McDonalds I am sure I'll be fine because I'll find something else to replace it that I do like.
This isnt about saving $600 a month in rent. Yeah, sure, that will be one a perk. Not to mention EVERYTHING is cheaper. This is about being done with this country until and when things get better. And I dont see them getting better for a long, long time. So while the country here is going to complete an d utter shit (you rich playboys here in the States so should be careful how you spend... you may have wealth now but the economy is trending downward and even the richest men lost thier foturnes in the depression... keep in mind those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past will repeat them...) I'd like to enjoy my life and see some cool stuff.
BA didnt get its reputation as being the Paris of South America because it is a shit hole.