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If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
You know to vote you have to register for a party~:rolleyes: That REALLY annoys me! Why cant some one just vote; they don't need to know which party I support.
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WHat would you change about your gov.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by ceasar010
WHat would you change about your gov.
My goverment.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
[QUOTE=ceasar010]You know to vote you have to register for a party~:rolleyes: That REALLY annoys me! Why cant some one just vote; they don't need to know which party I support.
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You dont have to do that here.~D
What i would chance in our goverment would be moving more power from the central government to the local level.:bow:
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by ceasar010
You know to vote you have to register for a party~:rolleyes: That REALLY annoys me! Why cant some one just vote; they don't need to know which party I support.
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Register independent. That isn't a political party.
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I would change redistricting laws in California. Oops. Already tried. Prop 77 got killed.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
But then you can't vote in the primaries.~:mecry:
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
Either
The senate
or
The Governor General and all the Leftenant governors.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by ceasar010
But then you can't vote in the primaries.~:mecry:
But why should you allowed to vote on which candidate a party nominates if you are not affiliated to this party?
Seems a bit strange that Democrats should have a say in who runs for the Republicans and vice versa...
EDIT: One thing I would change (and I still hope that this might actually change in the coming years) - bundle the election dates for the federal parliament and the parliaments of the individual states in Germany, so that there are only e.g., 2 big election dates in a 4-year period.
As it is now there is almost always some election campaign going on on either federal level or in one of the states and the politicians seem too afraid of messing up any of these election, so that they are less willing to make unpopular decisions.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by ceasar010
But then you can't vote in the primaries.~:mecry:
Yeahhh, now you're sorry your ancestors dumped all that tea...Well, we told you so.
If I could change anything, I'd make being a politician illegal & punishable by something seriously, seriously nasty. Give politics back to the land owning aristocracy!
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I would like to be able to vote on more things (local stuff mostly). And I would like it if there were some way to qualify voters, just to make it so idiots can’t vote. ~:)
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Originally Posted by ceasar010
WHat would you change about your gov.
The ability of it's members to draw breath.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
Just wanted to clear something up. What I want to change does not effect me yet sense I am not old enough to vote... but it is still annoying:charge:
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by AdrianII
My goverment.
Beat me to it.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by AdrianII
My goverment.
Beat me to it.
Yeah me too.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
restore the Upper House to its former glory, including restoring the right of hereditary peers to a seat in the House of Lords, allowing the Queen to appoint Lords, Ministers of State, Officers of State, and other now Government-appointed posts, including the Governor-Generals of the Dominions and the Secretary-General of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by King Malcolm
restore the Upper House to its former glory, including restoring the right of hereditary peers to a seat in the House of Lords, allowing the Queen to appoint Lords, Ministers of State, Officers of State, and other now Government-appointed posts, including the Governor-Generals of the Dominions and the Secretary-General of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
One wee little point here, why the house of lords? What makes the hereditary peers better then anyone else?
I'd change everything to a flat tax...that'd make everything much simpler
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Why perhaps one should not ask why, but why reform it in the first place. The House of Lords used to (and still slightly is) not be about politicking. The parties would not make jibes at each other like in the House of Commons, speeches would be calm, collected, not emphatic, or filled with meaningless statistics. They would do their job -- scrutinise legislation -- instead of bickering like a bunch of school girls. Restoring the hereditary peers is simply undoing the reforms. And besides, it is a nice quirk of a nation if one is granted a seat in parliament simply by birth right.
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First of all, dump the entire administration, especially Verdonk. I hate that ugly, compuslive lying hack.
Seriously though, I'd give the 2nd chamber of our parliament more power to force her decisions on pig headed ministers. And maybe some obscure legislature that would prevent Wouter Bos from ever becoming prime minister.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by Germaanse Strijder
First of all, dump the entire administration, especially Verdonk. I hate that ugly, compuslive lying hack.
Seriously though, I'd give the 2nd chamber of our parliament more power to force her decisions on pig headed ministers. And maybe some obscure legislature that would prevent Wouter Bos from ever becoming prime minister.
Ah, Wouter Bos, the boyscout of Dutch politics. He was over at my school before the last elections, and failed to answer questions from schoolkids in a satisfactory manner. And he's supposed to be prime minister some day?
The current government is horrible. I've rarely seen so many mess-ups by such a group of incompetents. It would almost be laughable, were it not that they're supposed to be running this country. It's a sorry state of affairs, but won't change until the electorate actually starts to care.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by King Malcolm
restore the Upper House to its former glory, including restoring the right of hereditary peers to a seat in the House of Lords, allowing the Queen to appoint Lords, Ministers of State, Officers of State, and other now Government-appointed posts, including the Governor-Generals of the Dominions and the Secretary-General of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
Well when I said I'd like to change the office of Governor General I mean't 1 of the following.
1.Abolish it all together and turn Canada into a Kingdom with HRH Elizabeth II as our Queen.
2.Again turf the office of Governor general and draft one of Lizzies many kids to be the Prince regent of Canada.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by ceasar010
You know to vote you have to register for a party~:rolleyes: That REALLY annoys me! Why cant some one just vote; they don't need to know which party I support.
WHat would you change about your gov.
The existence.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure I would prefer a parliamentary system.
Maybe people living under parliaments can enlighten me.
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I would eliminate the Electoral College
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more power to the provinces.
cut the beurocracy in half.
... kick the primeminister in the nuts... :bow:
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
get rid of the house of lords.
replace it with a Proportionally representative body.
Their role would be similar to the current House of lords, in that they could revise, change, delay and modify, but not entirely kill legislation.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by King Malcolm
Why perhaps one should not ask why, but why reform it in the first place. The House of Lords used to (and still slightly is) not be about politicking. The parties would not make jibes at each other like in the House of Commons, speeches would be calm, collected, not emphatic, or filled with meaningless statistics. They would do their job -- scrutinise legislation -- instead of bickering like a bunch of school girls. Restoring the hereditary peers is simply undoing the reforms. And besides, it is a nice quirk of a nation if one is granted a seat in parliament simply by birth right.
Sorry if I sound a bit pigheaded mate but why have it at all? Ok, I understand the tradition part and yes, it is a nice quirk. But what happens when you get an unelected idiot (we have enough elected ones already) or better still a whole bunch of incompetant unelected idiots in the house of lords? And I'm not sure their birthright makes them any better at not squabbling like little girls. Though not having to fight for a seat makes you a better campaigner as you have nothing to lose...
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I would change their mentality.
Adding more rules does not automatically solve the problem.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
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Originally Posted by Lazul
.... kick the primeminister in the nuts... :bow:
I'm sure every person who's nation has a PM wants to do that....
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Not that the Dutch PM has any to kick...
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Why is any one pro monarchy....how could any one want some inbred guy with 11 toes to rule you?
I am always left shaking my head after a pro monarch post here.~:rolleyes:
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Why is anyone anti-monarchy, or pro-republic ... how could anyone want a retarded man to rule them, especially if he won an election with 500,000 less votes than the other guy, or can appoint a prime minister outwith parliament.
I'm always left shaking my head after an anti-monarchist posts here.
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you can get rid of the leader in a republic/democracy. In the monarchy if you get a guy that does have mental problems from all that inbreeding...guess what you're stuck with him!
Guess what we also have this thing called "freedom" in democracies/republics. If some one says you must warship buda, I don't have to warship buda!
enough ranting
You are pro monarch....what do you think of the magna carta?
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
I think that it is an excellent thing. Especially Article 61 (or thereabouts) which allows the people to petition the Lords, and if a quorum of Lords support it, then the petition goes to the monarch.
If you have not noticed, the United Kingdom is also a democracy. If we happen to get someone with mental problems, them parliament (or someone) can appoint a Regent to rule until there is a fitter person available for the Kingship. And haven't you heard of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea? That is a republic, but the people still have no say in the leader. We over here may be a Monarchic Parliamentary Democracy, but we still choose who represents us who, in turn, govern the nation.
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Re: If you could change one thing about your government...what would it be
Most of today's constitutional monarchies are not monarchies at all.
Monarchy = mono, arche
rule of one.
But at least it sounds better then "state with a family of expensive figureheads".
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I'd like to see more power to the Federal government and less to the States. I believe it would unify the country a bit more.
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Besides the National Langauge being German you mean? (I hate English, too complicated, and I'm a native english speaker).
Hard one...
Maybe we'd be more like the Vaterländische Front of old Austria.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...3%9F_radio.jpg
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In Australian get rid of the monarchy. No pasing the buck for Australians in blaming the GG for getting rid of parliament due to a supply block.
