What industry would you abolish?

[bluestateguy]

Poll question: What industry would you abolish?

[politicaholic]

1. Other= Oil Industry

I think all of society can be weened off of oil totally and permanently with-in ten years. In the process we could create jobs and revenue from an environmentally friendly energy.

[SweetZombieJesus]

2. Fashion industry

Most worthless thing humanity has ever done, ever.

[anti_shrub]

3. I voted for the tobacco industry

Hate to sound like an obnoxious "Truth" anti-smoking ad, but I've had too many relatives die of cancer, including my aunt who was so addicted she continued to smoke during her treatments for throat cancer.

The tobacco industry is no different from a Columbian drug cartel in my mind.

[LuLu550]

16. I'm with you

watched my father die a painful death from lung cancer and I hate it!

[Catch22Dem]

4. Petrol

[dfong63]

5. other = GM foods

[Robb]

6. Credit

...and specifically the Orwellian* industry that surrounds it -- monitoring, evaluating, and rating an entity's ability to repay a loan.



(*I can say "Orwellian", because I've read Orwell...)

[RandomKoolzip]

7. Tossup twixt Fashion and Sports.

Can you think of all the money wasted on foisting these completely useless distractions on the American Public? THink of all the ad dollars spent in these two realms that could have gone to insuring the uninsured or educating people.

[Mikimouse]

8. Fee for service medical industry

n/t

[newyawker99]

17. Congrats Mikimouse!! 200 posts

:toast:

[Coventina]

9. Whaling/Poaching

While some of those other industries are pretty bad, I feel nothing is worse than the eradication of entire species.

[expatriot]

10. If I wuz industry, I'd prolly climb down and go up DAT tree.

eddd

[GOPEC]

11. Sex Tourism

Weren't any of you paying attention to Dubya's speech at the UN?! It's right up there with terrorism, apparently.

[peekaloo]

20. researched by his brother Neil

:+

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Nuclear

And then plastics (that is, the companies that make all the wasteful shit that makes the world hate America, like plastic utensils for lazy ass Americans, plastic cups, plastic plates, all those damn plastic bags wrapped around everything, straws, etc.) and then I'd go after the damn laundry industry and ban fabric softeners and environmentally harmful detergent, soaps, and cleaning solutions, bleach would be banned, and also I'd get rid of those dryer sheets and everything else that's unnecessary with clothing, including but not limited to static free spray from a can. Talk about lazy, sheesh.

All that crap has to go.

[CanuckAmok]

19. "nucular"...IT'S PRONOUNCED "NUCULAR" n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Yes, dreadfully unamerican of me to not switch

my pronunciation to fit with our illiterate fake pResident.

:evilgrin:

[baldguy]

13. the VRWC

An entire infrastructure devoted to keeping the general public ignorant, distracted and disinterested in improving their own lives, dedicated to subverting the Constitution at every turn, populated with trolls who have wet dreams about mass murdering commies, homos and darkies.

Ann Coulter should be destitute, homeless, and begging for food in the street.

[Chovexani]

14. I voted for HMOs

The only reason that gets my vote over fashion is that HMOs actually kill people with their evil.

Also if it wasn't for the fashion industry we wouldn't get hilarious parodies of it like on AbFab. :)

[0rganism]

15. the nominal "Defense" Industry, without a doubt

The vast amounts that are spent on private defense contractors lead directly to a very powerful lobby that can only sustain itself through promoting imperialism. It's a nasty cycle of death and violence, and I would abolish it if I could.

Read this book if you don't understand what I mean:

[Zero Gravitas]

18. Health insurance compaines

Universal Health Care NOW.

[DrGonzoLives]

21. Who the hell voted for pharmaceuticals?

What, do we rely on faith healing and crystal homeopahty after you get rid of it? Maybe let the Christian Scientists take over? Explanation, someone?

[bluestateguy]

22. kick

[leftist_rebel1569]

24. The RIAA

grrr...don't get me started!