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- From: kirby@xerox.com (Mike Kirby)
- Newsgroups: alt.current-events.somalia
- Subject: Re: Somalia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.160251.13673@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:02:51 GMT
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- In article 1hrcqcINNp4v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu, al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman) says:
- >
- >>>The votes should be weighted according to how much income tax
- >>>the voter pays. The way it is now, the have-nots vote to pick
- >>>the pockets of the haves. We'll NEVER have peace that way.
- >>
- >>By this logic, people like Donald Trump or Michael Jackson have
- >>thousands of times as many votes as the average schmoe on the street.
- >>That's not what democracy means. Nor is it fair.
- >
- >You don't judge a proposal on its own merits; you judge
- >by comparing it to what you already have. What other
- >peace proposal do you have?
- >
- >--
- >=======================
- >"Endeavor to persevere"
- >=======================
-
-
- By and large we already have vote weighting by income group. Since the more
- wealthy people tend to participate more in the political process, (and vote)
- while the poorer people tend to ignore it. The concerns of the wealthy are
- taken into account much more than those of the poor.
-
- A better solution would be to convince more people to vote so that appeals
- to one class or group of people would be for naught because they are in
- the minority. This would require our polititions to actually formulate
- policy based on majority will as well as require our politicians to actually
- try to lead and convince large segments of the population to change their
- point of view. Something that hasn't been done in 4 years.
-
- I do believe that this is swaying off the topic a little. Doesn't really
- have much to do with somolia.
-
- Mike Kirby
- Xerox Corp
- E-Mail: kirby.roch803@xerox.com
-