NYET! My New & Improved Default Voting Position

This has been my policy for a long time. When I read the ballot propositons each election time, if it involves spending more money, I vote NO. If it involves saving money, I vote YES. Needless to say my NO votes over the years far exceed the YES votes.

Posted by CBDenver at October 8, 2011 5:40 PM

This has been my policy for a long time. When I read the ballot propositons each election time, if it involves spending more money, I vote NO. If it involves saving money, I vote YES. Needless to say my NO votes over the years far exceed the YES votes.

Posted by CBDenver at October 8, 2011 5:40 PM

grunting sows

What are you sir, some sort of sexist. What happened to the surly boars?

For the rest, yes, some things are simple at the core. Why worry as to precisely *how* you will be robbed, just say no? Or at least, "I'm thinking, I'm thinking."

Posted by chuck at October 8, 2011 5:58 PM

Groucho sang it best...

Posted by Julie at October 8, 2011 6:28 PM

CBDenver—actually, that extends further. If you can't parse it, vote no. If it sounds like a good idea but you can't figure the secondary and tertiary effects, vote no. If it sounds good but you haven't done research to find out if it's going to do what it says it does, vote no.

I have actually voted Yes on propositions. Sometimes that amazes me because I have so many qualifiers.

Posted by B. Durbin at October 8, 2011 8:39 PM

I've been a no-voter my entire voting life: Voting NO since 1980.

Posted by Jewel at October 8, 2011 11:43 PM

Nyet!

Simple, and too the point. If more people voted Nyet, we'd probably still have a lot of government.

*sigh*

I said nyet nyet Soviet, Soviet Jewellery

Posted by pdwalker at October 9, 2011 8:04 AM

Julie, you hit the one I was going to add. Besides voting no to spending and power grabs, I also vote no if it isn't written so that it is easily understood. The health care bill being longer than the Bible sent me over the edge.

Posted by mary at October 9, 2011 9:17 AM

I figured this out many, many years ago.

Posted by Moneyrunner at October 9, 2011 6:37 PM

Default position: NO!

Nuanced position: HELL NO!

M

Posted by Mark Alger at October 10, 2011 2:26 PM