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   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 2015-04-28 6:52 PM, Sharx35 wrote:   
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   > wrote in message news:qqU%w.33268$pO4.498@fx17.iad...   
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   > On 28/04/2015 2:00 PM, M.I.Wakefield wrote:   
   >> Now imagine how the people of Ontario felt on September 7th, 1990,   
   >> when they   
   >> awoke to an NDP majority that received 37.6% of the vote.   
   >   
   > Probably about the same as they felt when they found out Harper had won   
   > a majority   
   > with only 39.6% of the votes.   
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   > We do need to ditch the first-past=the-post balloting system, replacing   
   > it with some kind of proportional rep. based system, i.e. proportion   
   > of popular vote that a party gets translates directly into proportionate   
   > number of seats.   
   > No one could say that their vote was wasted.   
      
   Our whole political system is about the worst par-lam-mentry backwater   
   system in democracy.   
      
   You can't fix it with proportional representation, all you get is more   
   useless unelected politicians collecting pensions and making law without   
   getting elected.  You want it fixed, need a republican system where the   
   administration and law are separate groups and the premier/president is   
   elected independent of the law branch.   
      
   A far better fix is to take the first $20 of taxes and vote it towards a   
   registered political candidate in your riding and make lobby groups and   
   lobby money outlawed.  I say the candidate, and if they belong to a   
   party, they can voluntarily send money to the party.  This gives the   
   voter and the MLA the clout and not a money bought back room dirty leader.   
      
   And you can change your money vote each year you file.  No need to wait   
   4 long years in a case like Redfraud to send a message.   
      
   Essentially you are turning the productive taxpayers into the lobby   
   group and excluding the back room deals.   
      
   As the real problem I see is our politicians be they city, provincial or   
   federal do not really represent us at all, its just show time and   
   illusions....to get our money for their lobbyists, friends, bailout vote   
   buying.   
      
   Ever notice that except for banks that Ottawa bailouts of uncommon good   
   corporate-union welfare is almost always a union in the mix?  Be it CBC,   
   GM, Magna, Air Canada, Canada Post, Bombardier and others?   
      
   We are a money bought the ballot ruse of democracy.   
      
   --   
   Socialist-statism corruption is a great idea so long as the credit is   
   good and other people pay for it. When the credit runs out and those   
   that pay for it leave, they can all share having nothing but   
   unemployment, debt and discontentment.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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