On November 22 the Dutch can vote for a new House of Representatives, which is divided in a few wings of political parties.
You can imagine so many things about which the election in November 2006 should go (about?).
You can make the old age state pension an important item. It can be seen as an insurance, in my opinion it's not. Gradually it should be abolished. More and more people build up an own pension.
The health care is an important item. It's about quality and quantity of care in hospitals, old age homes, nursing homes. What quality of living can people be guaranteed? Is there enough care for old people in the future? Will there be enough workforce in health care in the future? What about hospitalization? Will quality be guaranteed? Will there be enough hands on the bed? Measures have to be taken.
It all comes together with the ageing people and education of youngsters.
The Netherlands should spend more on the educational budget. Workforce productivity should be increased by putting more money in it. Who dares that. Left will be the big spender, right will be the opportunist if they put money in it.
Or should the election go about the Islam, the religion that can't reason and uses the scimitar to spread their thought according to a Byzantium emperor from the 14th century AD, on a wicked moment brought up again by someone who might be a German in-between pope.
No, maybe it's the pope's criticism on the video-release, or suicide-bomber message of our Samir A.
The street rebel who doesn't speak Dutch, but makes Arabic sound like double Dutch. He says and I quote the Dutch newspaper NRC, "Every voter is guilty. That is the basis of democracy."
(guilty of the trouble in the middle east, because the government supports Bush and NATO)
Isn't that the reverse world of the Samir A.'s of this world? Some parties had a lack of votes because their voters didn't show up massively.
Everyone who doesn't vote is guilty because he failed to use the possibility to alter the ratio between the parties. That is the basis of democracy in 2006.
In the USA there was a tie in Florida, a recount was demanded. After that the Bush-supporters won on close call. It might have been a little stupid of the anti-Bush supporters not to vote for the democrats.
The few missing votes of those days make a huge difference nowadays.
