Posted on 10/29/2008 7:03:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
I agree not everyone should vote. Some people don’t follow the news or political issues. These people should not vote because they aren’t thinking about candidates and issues.
Think about this — If you support McCain, for example, your vote is cancelled out if some person ignorant of the issues votes for Obama.
My view: Anyone who has not filed an IRS 1040 showing earned income for at least one year (preferably past 3 years) previous to a federal election should not be allowed to vote - period. If you don’t earn money legally, you should not have a say in how anyone elses’s money shall be redistributed, nor in how this country is run. If you don’t have sufficient gumption to get out and work - at any job - you have no business voting.
Yes, I was considering putting up a site advising people not to vote if they haven’t done the research.
A mindless vote is worse than no vote!
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Stossel speaks a truth that most only whisper these days. Uninformed, ignorant voters impose the worst possible government on our society. We largely have our politicized public education system to thank for the problem IMO.
So are you saying we should just stay home? You might want to give up and throw the towel in, but I don't, and btw I already voted
If you draw more in government benefits or compensation than you pay in taxes, you should not be permitted to vote.
You are ridiculous.
I’m pretty confident my 26-year old daughter and her pothead friends will be too hung over or stoned to get off their asses and find the polls.
Post # 9 is also for you.
No of course I’m not saying we should just stay home. All of us who know the issues and care about the issues and the future of the country should vote. I meant to say, maybe not expressed too well, that some of these people who don’t give a darn about issues and candidate should not vote.
Those who don’t show a positive number on their “tax” line (44) of their 1040 should not vote.
Exactly. It’s easy to get these types to sign up. VERY few will make any attempt to get to the polls.
I wasn’t registered to vote till I decided that I wanted to vote. No one came to me to register me and no one offered to take me to the polls. It required desire and a litte effort on my part. Able bodied people who can’t do that much really shouldn’t be voting.
The ACORN line of crap that they register homeless and low income people to vote is a pile of bull puckey meant to convince people that they can’t vote otherwise.
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“Exactly. It’s easy to get these types to sign up. VERY few will make any attempt to get to the polls.”
Well, then, thank goodness for stoned kids.
BTW, if we told these kids they could get high smoking kudzu, we could solve our kudzu problem in the south ‘cause it would all be gone in short order.
IT is just as bad when they do follow the issues but get their information from the leftist MSM.
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Okay, that is much better.
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