Voting options?

**Niterider** · 8th July 2008, 19:28

GO TRUCKIES GO!

How about a bike protest? Pile a few thousand bikes into town! Can be quite a fun run!

I've been listening to the talkshows and following the news and government issues big time for the past 2 years. I come from a country where everything went down the gutter due to government's hidden agenda. The EXACT SAME THING is happening here.

The Kiwi has 2 chances for survival, get the governments out and the Swiss way in (For those that don't know how it works, you have referendum boxes similar to lotto stations at every supermarket, filling station and dairy and for EVERYTHING that pops up, the PEOPLE vote, not some

idiot in parliament.)

That will save millions in salaries and fancy cars alone.

The other chance I will elaborate on a little later. Anyone with some ideas?

**WarlockNZ** · 8th July 2008, 20:13

I cant say it any better myself ... just replace America with New Zealand .. and you're done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u6lCBnRoHQ

**rainman** · 8th July 2008, 21:09

Originally Posted by Niterider

Anyone with some ideas?

I vote we distill all the idealists into a highly refined form and use them to power something useful.

(Sigh) This is going to be a loooooooong election.

**Hitcher** · 8th July 2008, 21:09

New Zealanders have got the political system we voted for and the government we arguably deserve.

We're a nation of apathetic, self-interested, lazy slobs, who think that our country is somehow blessed with attributes others lack. We're jingoistic, beer-swilling, child-abusing, wife-beating, redneck oiks who think we're somehow superior to Asians and other recent immigrants who actually value education and have the gall to want to strive for a better life for themselves and their children by wanting to work for that.

We need to get over ourselves and take a real interest in the future of our nation. If we wake up one morning and find that what we thought we had is gone, we will have nobody to blame but our sad and sorry selves.

**Bren** · 8th July 2008, 21:17

oi....nothin wrong with rednecks...I might do something about it, but first I gotta whack around the missus and kids, then plonk my butt on the sofa to watch some auto racing, and swill some beers!
Then I might go and abuse the fuck outta the chinks who refuse to take on our customs!

Besides which, some think that I dont give a shit so why the hell should I do anything about it!, I will let some other arsehole do it for me!

**CookMySock** · 9th July 2008, 07:28

Originally Posted by Niterider

you have referendum boxes similar to lotto stations at every supermarket, filling station and dairy and for EVERYTHING that pops up, the PEOPLE vote, not some

idiot in parliament.)

Right, so every minority in the country gets suppressed by the voting majority ? I hope you are mainstream, because if you aren't then all your toys are about to be outlawed, and since when were motorbikes mainstream ? THINK carefully here!

Originally Posted by rainman

I vote we distill all the idealists into a highly refined form and use them to power something useful.

Here we go again with the same type of thinking "everyone who thinks something different to me is wrong and should not be allowed their lifestye."

Originally Posted by Hitcher

New Zealanders have got the political system we voted for and the government we arguably deserve.

Yeah, where the individual is respected over and above the mass.

Originally Posted by Hitcher

We're a nation of apathetic, self-interested, lazy slobs, who think that our country is somehow blessed with attributes others lack. We're jingoistic, beer-swilling, child-abusing, wife-beating, redneck oiks who think we're somehow superior to Asians and other recent immigrants who actually value education and have the gall to want to strive for a better life for themselves and their children by wanting to work for that.

We need to get over ourselves and take a real interest in the future of our nation. If we wake up one morning and find that what we thought we had is gone, we will have nobody to blame but our sad and sorry selves.

Horseshit. We are a nation of people who were actually doing something interesting before we got tricked into listening to all this depressing crap on the radio, and getting involved in all this useless discussion about it on the Internet.

GO BACK OUT TO THE BLOODY SHED and pull your bike apart, or go see some mates and drink some piss, and quit fucken moaning and get back to your roots. You were far more interesting when you were having fun and doing something illicit.

DB

**awayatc** · 9th July 2008, 08:28

Unfortunately all the people that have good ideas and talk sensible are not in Politics.....
would be good to have MP's that actualy represent our viewpoints....maybe they need to be neither Labour nor National, just people with comon sense that can speak on our behalf ..... would be happy with that

**Hitcher** · 9th July 2008, 08:35

The biggest problem with politicians is that they just want to be loved. Most of them are nice enough folks who have sucked the right dicks to get on their respective party lists. Not exactly a process that encourages original thought and innovation.

**rainman** · 9th July 2008, 08:41

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

Here we go again with the same type of thinking "everyone who thinks something different to me is wrong and should not be allowed their lifestye."

Eh? Are we even reading the same thread?

**awayatc** · 9th July 2008, 08:44

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Most of them are nice enough folks who have sucked the right dicks to get on their respective party lists. Not exactly a process that encourages original thought and innovation.

Well well, Imagine sucking Helen's dick.....That surely would count as an original thought in my books......

**Niterider** · 10th July 2008, 21:06

Originally Posted by awayatc

Unfortunately all the people that have good ideas and talk sensible are not in Politics.....
would be good to have MP's that actualy represent our viewpoints....maybe they need to be neither Labour nor National, just people with comon sense that can speak on our behalf ..... would be happy with that

Now then, let's start a poll. I mentioned "2 chances" in my first post. Herewith the second -: I seriously think that Leighton Smith

will do a FAAAAAAAAAARRRRR better job of getting things sorted than Clakky and Key together. He uses logic and COMMON SENSE

. Any others that you'd like to nominate?