Hi Extropes
I was cleaning up some files on my hard disk, and I ran across the
following file, written by an acquaintence many years ago. Since
I was thinking of the whole "None of the Above" voting procedure
recently, I thought I'd post it for fun.
It is still appropriate after all of these years, wouldn't you say?
(even if the tone is a bit.. uhmm..  biting .. so then tongue-in-cheek humor)
Amara
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X      VOTE FOR                                               /
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X                  NONE OF THE ABOVE                  | \  /   |              X
X                                                     |  \/    |              X
X                                                     |________|              X
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X                                  IN '92!!                                   X
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|             (Not) Paid for by the Campaign for a Free Amerika               |
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|                                  POLITFEST '92:
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|                                                                             |
|                    Where do the Candidates Stand on the Issues?             |
|                                                                             |
|                                                                             |
|  Issue         Bush/Quayle        Clinton/Gore         None Of/The Above    |
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| Taxes:       Taxes are good.      Taxes are great!       No Taxes. Ever.    |
|                                                                             |
| Defense:     Whoever dies with    The military is a      A .44 in every     |
|              the most aircraft    good way to give       holster. Learn     |
|              carriers wins.       stupid people jobs.    to use it.         |
|                                   [And it keeps the                         |
|                                   rest of you in line.]                     |
|                                                                             |
| Foreign                                                                     |
| Policy:      Take whatever we     Give whatever we       It's none of our   |
|              can from those       can to anyone who      damn business.     |
|              with   fewer         wants it.                                 |
|              aircraft carriers    [Otherwise we might
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|              than ourselves.      spend it here.]                           |
|                                                                             |
| Welfare:     Work or starve.      Gee, we can make       Charity is an      |
|              [Unless we can       a buck from this       individual choice. |
|              make a buck          too, can't we?         Otherwise, work    |
|              feeding you.]                                or starve.        |
|                                                                             |
| Gun                                                                         |
| Control:     A .44 in every       Only police and        Use both hands.    |
|              holster!             criminals should       [You get better    |
|              [Unless, of          have guns.             aim.]              |
|              course, you          [Or is that                               |
|              ever use it.]         redundant?]                              |
|                                                                             |
| Education:   Stupid people        We should force        You get what you   |
|              make better          people to learn        pay for. You pay   |
|              slaves.              absolutely             for what you get.  |
|                                   nothing.                                  |
|                                   [And make them                            |
|                                   pay dearly for it!]                       |
|                                                                             |
|                                                                             |
| Crime:       More police and      Without crime, we      Not bloody likely. |
|              more crooks          wouldn't need          [see Defense.]     |
|              makes more money.    police or lawyers.                        |
|              [For us. And it      [Perhaps we should                        |
|              keeps the rest of    prosecute the victims,                    |
|              you in line.]        too.]                                     |
|                                                                             |
|                                                                             |
|                                                                             |
| The          Cleaning the         Pretending to clean    If you pollute,    |
| Environment:  world is bad        the world is good      choke on it.       |
|               for business.       [for my wallet].                          |
|                                                                             |
|                                                                             |
| Drugs:       Well, the Commies    Illegal drugs create   Eat, smoke, shoot  |
|              are gone, so we      jobs for minorities,   whatever you want. |
|              have to fight        work for the police,   If you croak,      |
|              someone.             and lots of $$ for     tough shit.        |
|                                   me.                                       |
|                                                                             |
| Health       Only the rich        It's the duty of        Kill all the      |
| Care:        should survive.      everyone to pay         insurance         |
|             [Darwin said that,    for someone else's      salesmen and      |
|             right?]               health care.            lawyers, and      |
|                                                           health care       |
|                                                           would be cheap.   |
|                                                                             |
|                                                                             |
| Abortion:    A fetus in           Gee, if I say yes,     It's your body     |
|              every womb!          the god-mongers        and life, do with  |
|              [Unless it's         won't vote for me.     it what you will.  |
|              mine, that is.]                                                |
|                                                                             |
|                                                                             |
| Minorities:  Better dead          Minorities are our      If you can think, |
|              than a               best source of          therefore you     |
|              homosexual,          income.                 are.              |
|              black, Mexican,                                                |
|              or woman.                                                      |
|                                                                             |
| The Elderly:  Congressmen         The elderly have       If we didn't tax   |
|               are old, and        given us a lot         the hell out of    |
|               so am I, so         of money during        people, maybe they |
|               we should take      their lives.           could save some    |
|               good care of        [Maybe we can          money.             |
|               them.               get a little more                         |
|               [Everyone else      from them before                          |
|               can go to hell,     they die.]                                |
|               however.]                                                     |
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