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Prohibition has always been a silly idea, it's going to have to be another vote for the Republicans
(if only because they sound like retired pub landlords coming back to their old job...)
 
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Republicans ftw. Come on everybody wants them legal alcohols and besides it'll be fun to watch what will they do when the next delivery of shit hits teh fan....
 
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El Pip said:
Duritz - Shock, horror, absence of surprise. :D

After a quick google I think the Queensland example perhaps supports Sir H's decision, Garner plans for the federal govt. to still engage in the fiscal transfers necessary to balance out between diverse states, it just gets spent at a local level rather than by the distant central government.

Of course I can see that for any good Labour-ite such a dilution of central state control is horrific. I mean without Supreme Leader Rudd to guide Oz from Canberra who will implement state control of the internet and block 'inappropriate' content? :p
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Oh, I see! Not states rights as such but populist pork barrelling! ;) Just like the system Howard implemented with the GST then...

Oh please! Lets not get carried away here, its a powder puff system designed to play to the mums and dads voters rather than an ideological tool of the evil socialists. For gods sakes, they wouldn't even consider my suggestion that the software block the Liberal party website! :mad:
 
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El Pip said:
My experience of regulation and government assurance is that it gives a sense of security and safety that isn't always there. The more assiduous people are at ticking boxes and meeting compliance targets the less attention they pay to whether something is actually safe or even a good idea.
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Sorry Pippy but the Australian experience of bank regulation shows that proper regulation (read: not what passes for regulation in the US) works in the banking industry. Our big four(and a half) banks are riding the current crisis with record profits (damn them :mad: ) and the Australian regulated economy is looking like surviving the current international crisis in relatively good shape... but that's not to say that smoke and mirrors don't play their part in Economics! ;)

Another day, another vote:

Hull/Barkley :D
 
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Alf Landon: What do you mean you can't build it? Barklay built THIS! IN A CAVE!
 
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Prohibition has always been a silly idea,
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Thats why it should be left to the states to decide, to better and more accurately represent the feeling of their own consituents. *nods*
 
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El Pip said:
What bankers having to prove their bank is safe rather than just tick a few boxes? A system where people might ask questions about what banks are doing rather than say 'Well they've filled in all forms so must be safe'. Sounds a good idea really, people might have found out the problems before it all got to serious. ;)

My experience of regulation and government assurance is that it gives a sense of security and safety that isn't always there. The more assiduous people are at ticking boxes and meeting compliance targets the less attention they pay to whether something is actually safe or even a good idea.
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Strangely, it doesn't seem like this actually happened, to witness the chronic bank failures of the pre New Deal era.
 
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"We are spending more money than we have ever spent before and it does not work. … I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started … and an enormous debt to boot."

FDR's Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau. Testifying before the House Ways & Means Committee in May, 1939.

A vision of the future guys...

Vote Republican! Landon for Victory!
Pennsylvania
 
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You damn Republicans! :mad:

My vote goes to - Hull/Barkley

Well don't all act so surprised! :D
 
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Vote Republican! Landon for Victory!
Illinois

TheExecuter
 
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Karelian - Pageantry appears to be a vital issue in this election. And rightly so I believe. :)

RAFspeak - Vote early, vote often. That's this election's motto. :D

Tagros - I'd vote for the pub landlord party. Landlords always know how to easily solve any problem, it's uncanny and a damming indictment that such multi-skilled men are wasted pulling pints.
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Anazagar - Booze for the win!

Duritz - So your saying the country that has enjoyed a decade of centre right rule (Australia under Howard) is doing better than the country that suffered under centre left rule (UK with Brown/Blair).....

I knew we'd beat that socialism out of you eventually! :D

Arilou - I can't argue an Iron Man enhanced Sherman would be bitchin'.
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Sir Humphrey - Localism over central state control. A man after my own heart. :)

Faeelin - I would invite you to compare the US Great Depression experience with that of Canada next door;

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/09/great-depression-not-single-canadian.html

The attached argument appears to be that the over-regulated US banks couldn't cope because of constricting (Republican) regulations on how they could operate.

TheExecuter - It's a strong campaign slogan - "I've seen the Democrat future - Even they admit it's rubbish"

Nathan Madien - That was a spiffing AAR. :)

Jalex - Depends who gets in, what Congress is like and how much 'mandate' the candidate feel they have. I can see policy being a great deal more populist and pragmatic pretty much regardless.


Latest Opinion Poll
Hull-Barkley (Democrats) - 39%
Landon-Vandenberg (Republican) - 46%
Garner-White (State's Rights) - 15%

The polls are showing a major swing in favour of the Republicans. Pundits are keen to point to tireless campaigning in the North East by both Republican candidates with many states looking likely to turn Red

Other pundits however credit a more base motivation; the RNC's on-going 'It's time for a beer!' ad campaign.
 
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I will Vote Democrat just to make it closer. HEHE
 
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Another day for me at least (not sure if it is for anyone else) so....

Vote Republican, Landon for Victory

I just the realised this whole election thing is a gimmick for El Pip to keep his AAR as one of the most recently commented on threads, without actually updating. :eek:
 
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I think we are being misled a tad by the opinion polls. After all they seek to present a true picture of the people's opinions.

What we actually need is an estimate of the likely voting outcome. Tamanay Hall and Garner my be returning twice the votes he really receives.:D

So maybe the true score is something like

Hull-Barkley (Democrats) - 34%
Landon-Vandenberg (Republican) - 36%
Garner-White (State's Rights) - 30%


Vote early, vote often and vote on behalf of your 17 brothers and their dead cousins;)
 
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Vote Hull/Barkley!
 
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Vote Hull/Barkley - In Pennsylvania
 
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