Posted on 10/29/2008 7:03:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
What gives you the right to tell someone who didn’t have a positive number on their tax line of their 1040 should not be allowed to vote?
But Nickolodeon kids choice, chose Barack Obama!
My 7 year old froze when they announced that and said “Is Barack Obama going to be the President for Kids!?!”
Poor thing, they terrified her.
What gives me the right to have that opinion? That’s funny.
OK, so here’s how I back up my opinion:
Those who have no stake and no skin in the game don’t get to tell others who have skin in the game how their money is to be spent or how much of it they’re going to pay.
This is why the vote originally, by the founders opinion, was to be only for land owners.
John Stossel is my favorite Libertarian
I respectfully disagree.
Everyone who CAN vote, Should vote.
Those who don’t care won’t even go to the polls.
Those who know nothing will balance out those who know nothing. Statistically, they will distribute their votes evenly across the candidates.
Those who are totally confused, or overwhelmed by the information will fall in with those who know nothing.
Which leaves us with those who know what they are doing; and those who think they know what they are doing, but have bad information.
Americans had bad information from GW Bush & Co about going into Iraq. It was a deliberate denial of, and alteration of information concerning justification for military action. Most of us were supporting something for reasons that in reality didn’t exist. We are responsible for what we supported; but we are also responsible for implementing corrections (or not) once we found out the truth.
So those who know, or think they know, should get out and vote. Take responsibility for your selections. And don’t sweat it that there are plenty of fools in the voting lines.
I’m of the mind that only property owners should be able to vote. Now THAT is kickin’ it ol’ school! Property owners actually have a stake in how limited or expansive their gov’t is. Alas, it will never happen. We are close to the magic number 51%. Once 51% figure out they can vote themselves a raise, or goodies from the gov’t, this Republic is doomed.
Just his opinion. At one point in time it was thought that if you didn’t own property you had no vote.
If your your only stake in the government is how much can they give me, why should you be allowed to make the decision.
What are you smoking?
But that's the democrat base!
I imagine that the majority voters that are registered at events like rock concerts, such as Puffy Daddy's Vote or Die, never make it to the Polls. They just register at the time to get a free t-shirt or pack of smokes.
If you are drawing more from the treasury than you are putting in, you have an inherent conflict of interest when it comes to voting. That is, such people are not paying their way in this country and should therefore not be allowed to keep voting to get more goodies out of the government. Long-term, letting such people vote will be a death-knell for the Republic.
If you register people to vote who otherwise would not be bothered, if you ‘help’ people who have no interest or idea about whom to vote for, you are essentially getting another vote vicariously. Leave people alone. The only people who should be allowed to vote are those for whom it is important enough to take the time to register and to vote. The government should provide help only for people who ask for it, but it should be illegal to go out and harvest votes from otherwise unmotivated people.
“You are ridiculous.”
Thank you for sharing that. Why do think that?
Our saving grace is that, even though the libs work hard to register those voters, most of them don’t bother to actually VOTE.
John speaks directly to the dummycrat penchant for taking the ignorant, registering them, then pointing to where they should put their “X.”
I agree . I ran into a person from eastern Europe and asked him if he liked it here in the USA he said yes it’s wonderful .so I asked would you ever move back to your home land .He replied yes .I asked why if you like it here.He replied there are just too many stupid people here.I took offense to this for obvious reasons .Then I thought about it for a while and came to the conclusion.He wasn’t saying we are all stupid but that there are a lot of uneducated people in this country.That get by because of all the government handouts and programs that reward the people who don’t try to find jobs and just collect all they can from the government. This is a country that reward a person because he or she can throw a ball in a hoop .They get free educations and high paying jobs just because they can play a game.a lot of them can’t even balance a check book .Could you imagine them having to make a big desition like who the leader of the free world should be.
No offense intended, but for you to be talking about what people might say concerning American intelligence ... and for it to be in the grammatical, punctuational, and spelling condition.....
Well, all I have to say is this: Isn't Irony Ironic?
Not when a significant number of the know nothings have been rounded up off the streets, bribed, and transported to the polls like cattle to a slaughterhouse by left wing groups, and wouldn't be there otherwise. Also, understanding the flaws in the left's arguments requires a little study. Redistributionist bromides are appealing to children and child-like adults. "No Blood for Oil" resonates much better with clueless simpletons than learned people.
The whole community organizer thing is to maximize the manipulated loser population to use as tools for the acquisition of power.
I agree. It's a conflict of interest for folks on the dole to vote.
Why am I ridiculous? If one has no stake in the economics of America, as evidenced by paying taxes, should one have a voice in how things are run? I think not. My approach could be refined, perhaps with upper and lower bounds for filing a 1040. However, to permit individuals who have never actively paid into the system to vote seems wrong. Perhaps it could be tied to Social Security eligibility, which reflects a citizen’s work history as defined by accrued benefit. Maybe you could think about it a bit, rather than saying I am ridiculous but offering no counterargument.
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