While some of this is due to an aging overall population, that doesn't begin to explain a 100% jump in <15 years.
Posted on 05/08/2014 7:29:55 PM PDT by Perdogg
Robert Heinlein could not win a Hugo Award today.
If you are a fan of science fiction, you know how shocking that statement is. If you are not a science fiction fan, I salute you for having better things to do with your time than read stories about space princesses being rescued from bug-eyed monsters by stalwart and clean-limbed fighting men of Virginia; but please let me explain why this is shocking.
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Property requirements should be a requirement. One needs to have something to lose when voting. This perpetuates the capitalist system. Letting lazy people with nothing to show for their lives, vote, will cause people to vote themselves ‘free ‘ stuff. That you and I who work must pay for it.
By property I don’t necessarily mean real estate. A healthy portfolio either defered retirement or not should be one form of required property.
SSDI has become a career path, and not a last resort for those truly unable to work.
One advantage of requiring the voter to own real property (a home, a business, etc), is that he directly and immediately stands to lose if the people he votes for adversely affect the business climate or property values in his area.
One advantage of requiring the voter to own real property (a home, a business, etc), is that he directly and immediately stands to lose if the people he votes for adversely affect the business climate or property values in his area.
I agree with all of these.
Voting was limited to Citizens. Civilians (residents) could not vote.
Service in the military ensured Citizenship. There were other ways to achieve Citizenship, such as some other form of volunteer Federal service.
Nooooooo, military service was federal service.
All mammals are animals, but all animals are not mammals.
Capeesh?
You had to be an honorably discharged veteran.
Let politicians risk your life for their stupid schemes and their glory?
I would never risk my life for government.
Look how fast the government took native Americans, hardy subsistence tribes, and what the reservations look like now. Look at the welfare class created by the "Great Society." Same thing, handouts and the systematic destruction of every institution that had a positive influence on those people.
Give it a couple more years of expanded unemployment benefits and we will create another large group of non-productive citizens.
While some of this is due to an aging overall population, that doesn't begin to explain a 100% jump in <15 years.
Read the book. Frankly, it was the first science-fiction book I ever read, other than some ERB, and it hooked me good.
The deal is, you have to volunteer, and you can quit whenever you want. You just never get a second chance to serve and earn the franchise.
Even in the middle of a war, you can quit. No one is ever drafted.
I’m not saying it would work, but I think it is an interesting idea.
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It's been a long time, but I think the examples Heinlein gave were terraforming on Venus, and testing experimental equipment. Somewhere Pluto got into there, too.
I don't know if these positions carried military rank with them, or not, but I suppose they did. It's not soldiering, though.
I would rather see al provision that you cannot vote as long as you take money from the Government (except salary, SS & retirement)
I think it would work. But would Americans want it? If Texas ever secedes from the nation, I’d recommend that system here.
But the CinC had to have gone throught the same process. Not saying that it would always get the bad guys out, and Heinlein brought up that point, too.
It did show that the person, male or female, was willing to risk his life to serve the country. More than we’ve got, today.
Finally, the veterans may have been in charge, but the active military still had the big guns.
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