The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #122219 Message #2678445
Posted By: Ebbie
12-Jul-09 - 03:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Nationalized Healthcare, good? bad?
Subject: RE: BS: Nationalized Healthcare, good? bad?
Our jury system, among other things, is built on the premise that the majority is right. But there's nothing stranger than people.
A few years back Alaska voted to move the Capital from Juneau to a newly-selected neutral spot (Willow, not too far from Wasilla), not much more than a crossroads.
A group got an initiative on the ballot requiring that a study be done first to determine approximately how much money it would cost to create a new town from scratch, build governmental buildings, etc.
When Alaska found how much it would cost - it was enormous - the state voted down the Capital move.
But: 68,000 voters said, "NO, we don't need to know."