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Old 10-09-2016, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee View Post
My real concern in all this is the amount of money that is spent every four years to elect a President - I think I heard that it is going to be close to $10Billion. With that money we could wipe out hunger and poverty worldwide, it would go a very long way to defeating Isis and probably Terrorism in general which would be money well spent, a lot better spent than on an election every four years.
True, we'd certainly all like to see an end to world hunger and poverty which is dreadful.
But I do appreciate that in North America, we get a chance to vote on who governs us.
As a sidenote, can you believe that 100 years ago women weren't allowed to vote?
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