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Title: What is wrong with us?
Post by: fightingquaker13 on March 18, 2010, 05:36:17 PM
I was flipping through the TV. On comes Preadator. Ok, good movie, seen it a zillion times, so moving on. Then it struck me. Not one, but two cast members of this thing became governors. WTF? ;D
FQ13
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: JC5123 on March 18, 2010, 05:55:00 PM
I was flipping through the TV. On comes Preadator. Ok, good movie, seen it a zillion times, so moving on. Then it struck me. Not one, but two cast members of this thing became governors. WTF? ;D
FQ13

And both of them turned out to be disappointments.  ::)
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: PegLeg45 on March 18, 2010, 06:31:43 PM
And both of them turned out to be disappointments.  ::)

They were almost as good as governors as they were as actors......   ;D
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: Ichiban on March 18, 2010, 07:52:46 PM
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
- H. L. Mencken
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: Pathfinder on March 18, 2010, 08:27:17 PM
"There's a sucker born every minute"

PT Barnum
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: SwoopSJ on March 18, 2010, 09:30:34 PM
Not one, but two cast members of this thing became governors.

There was a possibility of a third cast member joining that group.  Sonny Landham, the indian tracker, ran for governor of KY a few years ago, but lost by a rather large margin.

Swoop

 
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: WatchManUSA on March 23, 2010, 10:29:23 AM
As a Minnesotan who lived under Jessie "I ain't got time to bleed" Ventura, these people get elected because some voters think that he can't be any worse than a politictian.  However, they are worse.  Of course Jessie's objective was to use the office to further his carreer.  I guess that didn't work out very well for him.
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: tt11758 on March 23, 2010, 02:42:12 PM
As a Minnesotan who lived under Jessie "I ain't got time to bleed" Ventura, these people get elected because some voters think that he can't be any worse than a politictian.  However, they are worse.  Of course Jessie's objective was to use the office to further his carreer.  I guess that didn't work out very well for him.


Actually, most Minnesocoldans that I  talk to think Jesse did a reasonably good job.  Maybe they just had low expectations.
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: WatchManUSA on March 23, 2010, 03:13:37 PM
Actually, most Minnesocoldans that I  talk to think Jesse did a reasonably good job.  Maybe they just had low expectations.
I'm not one of them...When he was the gov we had a budget surplus of several billion bucks.  Remember, this is Minnesota, land of 10,000 taxes.  The money was coming in so fast the liberal politicians couldn't spend it fast enough and we had a surplus - two years in a row.  Jesse, while he was a candidate, said he would refund the all of the surplus.  Instead of giving it back, permanent spending was increased using two-thirds of surplus and only one-third was refunded to taxpayers.

This has lead directly to some of the problems the state has today with the budget.
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: scott.ballard on March 23, 2010, 03:20:19 PM
Perhaps they all vote for them because deep down they are hoping to find another Reagan?
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: Timothy on March 23, 2010, 04:15:11 PM
I was flipping through the TV. On comes Preadator. Ok, good movie, seen it a zillion times, so moving on. Then it struck me. Not one, but two cast members of this thing became governors. WTF? ;D
FQ13

Both of them starred in "The Running Man".  A really bad futuristic movie of the late eighties adapted from a Stephen King novel.

thespians they ain't.....
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: Woody on March 23, 2010, 09:59:23 PM
 Flouridated water, and complacentecy. They got us used to the govt gravy train, we are too spoiled.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword, the Other is by debt. John Adams
History is one big re-run.
Title: Re: What is wrong with us?
Post by: tombogan03884 on March 24, 2010, 02:32:41 AM
Flouridated water, and complacency. They got us used to the govt gravy train, we are too spoiled.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword, the Other is by debt. John Adams
History is one big re-run.


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