Re: A simple proposition to fix democracy in U.S.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "JoettaB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"rico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> I disagree with your tax credit idea, I do not think the
>'state'  (in this
>> case We the People) owes you the individual anything for
>voting. You in a
>> fashion owe participating to the state as a function of
>your duty to the
>> state. That said I would not have the state come out and
>make you vote either.
>> Of course a fair number of people do not register to vote
>as a means of
>> ducking jury duty. A lot of places still pull juries from
>the voter pool
>> rather then drivers licenses. I am indeed in favor of
>anything to get people
>> off their lazy butts and down to the polls short of a real
>reward (cash, Best
>> Buy Bucks etc). I would not mind seeing local government
>wave bus fares on
>> election day. that sort of thing. Maybe a weenie roast or
>something at polling
>> places.
>> At an office I once worked in, we did something like that,
>the local election
>> offiicials had the poll workers hand out stickers to wear
>on your shirt if you
>> voted. Our management catered in lunch for everyone with a
>sticker on
>> Wednesday. In that office, 100% turnout. But of course it
>did prove the old
>> maxum, there is no Free Lunch. I thought it was a really
>nice civic minded
>> thing for them to do. Of course this bunch would do that
>sort of thing for
>> blood drives,united way day etc.; they would bring in
>lunch at the drop of a
>> hat (it kept people from leaving the building and if you
>know nerds, they
>> will work if they are near a computer. <g>)
>>
>> Talent on loan from Merck
>
>Hey, you're not Rico. You're rico with a little r. What
>happened to Rico with a big R?

Had a hardware failure on the computer that I normally use for usenet, took 
Dell over 2 weeks to fix it. BTW my next computer will be coming from 
Gateway or HP. Dell's support in India sucks BIG TIME. If your problem is 
slighty off the script they have, they cannot handle it and Dell has no 
process in place to deal with those cases. I invested over 8 hours of phone 
time trying to get them to make a service call that from day one I said I 
would gladly pay for. On computers anymore, don't just ask if it is an 
American company, find out where technical support is located and if it is 
outside the US look at another brand of computer. 

On the bright side, when Dell finely got the Bank Tech guy to come out, he 
knew exactly what to do and took maybe 10 minutes. It just shouldn't be 
that hard to get your Dell computer worked on. 

With talent on loan from Merck