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s|k 9 Oct 2005 16:46

Get paid to improve America
 
The Democractic party is er having a contest to see who comes up with the best idea as to how improve America. The winner receives $100,000. Everyone here is always full of ideas, I saw no requirement that the contestant be a US citizen, but then I didn't look very hard.

http://www.sinceslicedbread.com/

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We're looking for fresh, new ideas for a better America. Do you have a common-sense idea that will improve the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans? Or an opinion on how working families can succeed in the new global economy?
Most recent suggestions:
  1. National Health Care = Jobs Program
  2. Public Service = College Education
  3. Prices should include sales tax!
  4. Fair ditribution of school funding
  5. Listen to the American Citizens
  6. Lifetime training & wage insurance

EDIT: You don't need to be a citizen, but you have to be legal resident. :0

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Eligibility
The Contest is open to legal residents of the United States who are 21 years of age or older at the time the Contest commences.

Phil^ 9 Oct 2005 16:49

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
Exile the vast majority of the population, the ones who actually believe this intelligent design nonsense

Phang 9 Oct 2005 16:52

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
can you enter if you're a citizen but not a legal resident?

Yahwe 9 Oct 2005 16:55

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
Make it compulsary to play radio 4 in all public buildings 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Tactitus 9 Oct 2005 17:14

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by s|k
The Democractic party is er having a contest to see who comes up with the best idea as to how improve America.

Does this mean they've run out of ideas? :/
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Originally Posted by Phil^
Exile the vast majority of the population, the ones who actually believe this intelligent design nonsense

Excellent. We'll send them to your country. ;)

Ste 9 Oct 2005 18:08

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
change the shitty political system

sigrid 9 Oct 2005 18:08

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
they could start with taking the president who actually go the most votes in the election. I am sure that would be quite an improvement!

Dante Hicks 9 Oct 2005 18:17

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
Disband the federal government.

Phang 9 Oct 2005 18:35

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Disband the federal government.

the problem with this theory is that you end up giving Tennessee greater autonomy.

Dead_Meat 9 Oct 2005 19:21

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
I have already improved America, simply by living and working here.

What more do they want from me? Selfish bastards.

Marilyn Manson 10 Oct 2005 12:20

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
- Gather up all the people in the High Plains states and send them to Boston or Baltimore to be civilised.

- Abolish Wyoming.

- Seize the assests of McDonalds, distribute the money to the urban poor, and shoot Ronald McDonald.

- Make DM Governor of Florida.

- Stop calling hamlets with two people and a rancid cat "cities".

- Enact a law requiring 60% of the population of Nebraska to be practising homosexuals in an effort to make it interesting and cosmpolitan.

- Get rid of the elctoral college.

- Get rid of Ann Coulter.

etc.

Dante Hicks 10 Oct 2005 12:55

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by Phang
the problem with this theory is that you end up giving Tennessee greater autonomy.

As ghastly as this would be, the Republic of Tennessee are unlikely to invade other nations in the Mid-East.

Alki 10 Oct 2005 13:05

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
Get shot of USA and call yourselves England 2

JonnyBGood 10 Oct 2005 13:27

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
Reanimate the corpse of JFK. Install the brain of Genghis Khan inside the reanimated corpse. Have Genghis Kennedy run for president and if he invades less countries in his first term than Bush did make George W hand out free strawberry ice-cream to everyone in Baghdad.

CrashTester 10 Oct 2005 14:19

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
build more guns!

QazokRouge5 10 Oct 2005 18:33

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
-Invade the British Isles and practice the "scorched earth" policy.

-Convert the rest of Europe into slaves.

-Use Africa as a free hunting ground, people included as game.

-Use the "scorched earth" policy on China and Japan... too many people.

-Use Austrailia as a resort.

-South America and Mexico to be used similar to Africa.

-Russia to be put into concentration camps.

-Problem solved, America has improved the world.

G.K Zhukov 10 Oct 2005 18:41

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
1. Put all the idiots, republicans, racists, religious fundamentalists, gang-members, corrupt policemen, those who supports US. imperialism and so on, into a single state. Preferbly Texas, since you dont have to move so many then, heh.

2. Nuke.

3. Inspect if there is still living life.

4. If so, nuke again.

5. The population of the USA is down to about 100 million people. The world will be a more peaceful place, and the people of South-America (and other places) can now rebuild they're countries without interference from the "big brother". People from overcrowded places like Bangladesh can move to the USA.

6. The world is a better place. Now submit 100.000 USD to my bank account please :)

Phil^ 10 Oct 2005 19:04

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
in this thread, qazokrouge5 demonstrates yet again why he isnt fit to have an opinion :rolleyes:

QazokRouge5 10 Oct 2005 19:26

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Originally Posted by Phil^
in this thread, qazokrouge5 demonstrates yet again why he isnt fit to have an opinion :rolleyes:

I find my post to be among the smae levels of Marilyn Mansons... but oh wait, he's part of the 'in' crowd. I'm American.

Phil^ 10 Oct 2005 19:29

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by QazokRouge5
I find my post to be among the smae levels of Marilyn Mansons... but oh wait, he's part of the 'in' crowd. I'm American.

its much much worse then that, you're a neo-conservative republican loonie

QazokRouge5 10 Oct 2005 19:30

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by Phil^
its much much worse then that, you're a neo-conservative republican loonie

compared to a neo-nazi british tea cup?

Phil^ 10 Oct 2005 19:38

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by QazokRouge5
compared to a neo-nazi british tea cup?

as retorts go, that ones pretty damn abysmal, try again harder :P

QazokRouge5 10 Oct 2005 19:40

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
Am I allowed a hug and a squeeze?

G.K Zhukov 10 Oct 2005 19:49

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Originally Posted by Phil^
its much much worse then that, you're a neo-conservative republican loonie

I think he just demonstrated why my suggestion is badly needed :)

s|k 11 Oct 2005 02:15

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
So has anyone actually submitted an idea? :0

JonnyBGood 11 Oct 2005 02:37

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Originally Posted by QazokRouge5
I find my post to be among the smae levels of Marilyn Mansons... but oh wait, he's part of the 'in' crowd. I'm American.

MM didn't propose killing people. Stop reacting so poorly to everything.






PS I am not a legal resident s|k :(

Mushroom 11 Oct 2005 04:05

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
Chomsky for President*




* not that he'd actually want to be the president, but hopefully he'd shaft the system with the rough end of a ragman's trumpet if he were there :p

dda 11 Oct 2005 04:24

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by sigrid
they could start with taking the president who actually go the most votes in the election. I am sure that would be quite an improvement!

GOOD LORD WOMAN! Saddle us with Al Gore? This is the rankest kind of anti-American trolling.

dda 11 Oct 2005 04:27

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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
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- Enact a law requiring 60% of the population of Nebraska to be practising homosexuals in an effort to make it interesting and cosmpolitan.

- Get rid of Ann Coulter.

What about just forcing Ann Coulter to live in Nebraska?

Marilyn Manson 11 Oct 2005 11:10

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Actually, I was thinking of sending her to a hut on the edge of Alaska, just overlooking the Bering Sea. Mabye with Qazok as company.

They would publish a weekly blog called 'hot-headed right wing xenophobic mongchops in a cold climate'.

Zword 11 Oct 2005 11:28

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
Move all to Canada

G.K Zhukov 11 Oct 2005 13:52

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
That would be very unfair towards the people who live in Canada now, Sword!

Appocomaster 11 Oct 2005 14:11

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
Yes. What have the Canadians done to deserve that?

I think they could get a proper president, stop invading other places when they can spend so much time improving their own, and stop trying to claim to be all "land of the free" when 5 minutes after you do something all the secret services know about it.

Zword 11 Oct 2005 14:12

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
nothing, but seemed like a cheap sollution

G.K Zhukov 11 Oct 2005 14:45

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
I will advocate that my solution is cheaper and more fair.

Im not so sure Texan, dda, Whitetrash, Quazokroug5 and the crew would think so (couse they be down in Texas getting nuked), but you dont wont see me care anyways.

Phil^ 11 Oct 2005 15:25

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by G.K Zhukov
I will advocate that my solution is cheaper and more fair.

Im not so sure Texan, dda, Whitetrash, Quazokroug5 and the crew would think so (couse they be down in Texas getting nuked), but you dont wont see me care anyways.

dunno if dda should be one of those getting nuked, but the rest of them certainly should be

acropolis 11 Oct 2005 15:27

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Originally Posted by dda
What about just forcing Ann Coulter to live in Nebraska?

the nebraskans would never go for the forced faggotry plan if coulter lived there with them.

How about "Quit invading countries all willy-nilly"

G.K Zhukov 11 Oct 2005 15:30

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Originally Posted by Phil^
dunno if dda should be one of those getting nuked, but the rest of them certainly should be

I included republicans in my list... :D

Kurashima 11 Oct 2005 20:26

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Originally Posted by Yahwe
Make it compulsary to play radio 4 in all public buildings 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Radio 2 breakfast show on repeat 24/7. Let Ol' Tel talk some sense into em!

Squidly 11 Oct 2005 21:03

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by Zword
Move all to Canada


We don't want em :(

Edit:

In retrospect however... it maybe a decent sacrifice... As it means there'd be less wars due to the fact the canadian military is rumored* to consist of two submarines (in a shopping mall), several camoflauged SUVs, and the occasional rabid beaver.

*guaranteed

Edit #2:

We could probably take dda though. He's nice enough and won't likely doom our country to the dark ages will he? ;)

Appocomaster 11 Oct 2005 21:06

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by Squidly
We don't want em :(

You could use them for things like clearing the snow away... sort of like 3rd world cheap labour. Just for irony.

Zero 11 Oct 2005 22:17

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
Give black Floridians the vote, thus making George and Jeb Bush homeless.

Fyodor 11 Oct 2005 22:24

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
-Revoke all work visas so euros/eastern hemisphere natives who come over for the high paying jobs can bitch about america from the comforts of their own country
-Kick all illegal immagrants from the eatsern hemisphere out of the country and give illegals from the Americas legal status so they can start paying taxes for the public infrastructure they are so dependent on
-stop giving financial support to every third world country who is in need. Straighten out america first, mexico second and south america third. Let the other "wealthy" coutries worry about the eastern hemisphere
-Get out of nato and let europe deal with its own messes
-Retreat from globalization
-Take all the money saved by the above and invest it in education
-Abolish outsourcing
-in a nutshell, take care of itself first and its neighbors second. To hell with the rest of the world.

Dante Hicks 11 Oct 2005 22:44

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
I hear this contest is over. Bill Bennett (former Secretary of Education) has won.

:(

G.K Zhukov 11 Oct 2005 23:51

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by Fyodor
-in a nutshell, take care of itself first and its neighbors second. To hell with the rest of the world.

You have practised this since you became a state off your own. Try to read a bit about your contries history before you make a fool out of yourself, will you. "Americans posting on GD without any clue about the history of they're own country" is starting to annoy me.

JonnyBGood 12 Oct 2005 00:03

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Originally Posted by Fyodor
-Revoke all work visas so euros/eastern hemisphere natives who come over for the high paying jobs can bitch about america from the comforts of their own country
-Kick all illegal immagrants from the eatsern hemisphere out of the country and give illegals from the Americas legal status so they can start paying taxes for the public infrastructure they are so dependent on
-stop giving financial support to every third world country who is in need. Straighten out america first, mexico second and south america third. Let the other "wealthy" coutries worry about the eastern hemisphere
-Get out of nato and let europe deal with its own messes
-Retreat from globalization
-Take all the money saved by the above and invest it in education
-Abolish outsourcing
-in a nutshell, take care of itself first and its neighbors second. To hell with the rest of the world.


Why stop there my friend? I propose a small select group of us rich people take over our own state, artificially inflate the property values to an unbelievably high level, secede from the United States and then systematically nuke every major city in the western hemisphere for some much needed living space for our hordes of slaves. I too believe in the motto take care of your own first but to be honest I don't think I have that much in common with the average homeless black person on the streets of Los Angeles.

Fyodor 12 Oct 2005 00:07

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by G.K Zhukov
You have practised this since you became a state off your own. Try to read a bit about your contries history before you make a fool out of yourself, will you. "Americans posting on GD without any clue about the history of they're own country" is starting to annoy me.


I really have no idea what you are talking about. We have gotten ourselves involved in crap that that is none of our business since our inception (see the barbary wars) It seems to me that america spends x amount of money on foreign aid while its school systems are in shambles and the disparity between the haves and have not have reached an all time high.

The republicans in this country seem to care only about big business/globalization and the democrats care about creating a semi socialist state where people dont have to work for a living.

I think a blanket statement about "Americans posting on GD without any clue about the history of they're own country" is quite an assinign thing to say to me as I am quite educated on my countries history as well as alot of global history.

Fyodor 12 Oct 2005 00:12

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
Why stop there my friend? I propose a small select group of us rich people take over our own state, artificially inflate the property values to an unbelievably high level, secede from the United States and then systematically nuke every major city in the western hemisphere for some much needed living space for our hordes of slaves. I too believe in the motto take care of your own first but to be honest I don't think I have that much in common with the average homeless black person on the streets of Los Angeles.

Segragation has been tried allready and if you are to become a seperatist you will be immediately branded as a racist. Then you will be systematically be bashed by the media until you succumb to the politcally correct point of view. This leaves only one alternative. Help the average black homeless person in compton raise his education level so that you will have more in common with him.

JonnyBGood 12 Oct 2005 00:17

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Originally Posted by Fyodor
Segragation has been tried allready and if you are to become a seperatist you will be immediately branded as a racist. Then you will be systematically be bashed by the media until you succumb to the politcally correct point of view. This leaves only one alternative. Help the average black homeless person in compton raise his education level so that you will have more in common with him.

Wait, I'm not a racist. I have plenty of rich black friends that could live in my paradise with me. I just want to take care of my own without any problems that I have no wish to be involved in. Also I'm sure my ultra-rich friends who own the various media corporations can suppress any incriminating evidence. Plus it's not like the media can actually do anything other that increase the disapproval of poor people, who aren't invited anyways so I fail to see a downside there. It's a fool-proof plan you see.

G.K Zhukov 12 Oct 2005 00:45

Re: Get paid to improve America
 
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Originally Posted by Fyodor
I really have no idea what you are talking about.

Exactly, and thats the problem my dear.

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We have gotten ourselves involved in crap that that is none of our business since our inception (see the barbary wars) It seems to me that america spends x amount of money on foreign aid while its school systems are in shambles and the disparity between the haves and have not have reached an all time high.
You mean one of the following, or all of the following?
a) The war against Spain (this is how the U.S gained the Philipines as a colony/puppet btw).
b) The wars against Mexico
c) The slaugher of the native population
d) Importing slaves to get cheap labour
I could go on forever, but hey.

If you havent got it by now, this is how the U.S became a world power and got rich. By feeding off others. By meddling in other countries affairs.

And the U.S have never spent much money on foreign aid. Also most of that foreign aid is used as a tool to extract favours etc. During the cold war the U.S foreign aid was less than 5% of the military budget. Today, U.S foreign aid is about 10% of the Norwegian foreign aid relative to BNP. And supplying arms to the army in Guatemala so they could kill of 2-300.000 people is not foregin aid. Neither is supplying Israel, Egypt or Colombia with arms.

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The republicans in this country seem to care only about big business/globalization and the democrats care about creating a semi socialist state where people dont have to work for a living.
Your right about the republicans, but claiming deomcrats wants to create a semi-socialist state is just funny. Im sure the big american corporations would give millions of dollars to a party advocating socialism! :rolleyes:
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I think a blanket statement about "Americans posting on GD without any clue about the history of they're own country" is quite an assinign thing to say to me as I am quite educated on my countries history as well as alot of global history.
Im not impressed.
I admit that Im not the easiest to impress and that Ive studied history at university, but still.


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