Posted on 11/10/2010 3:43:08 PM PST by Syncro
REPEAL THE 26TH AMENDMENT!
November 10, 2010
Jimmy Carter was such an abominable president we got Ronald Reagan, tax cuts, a booming economy and the destruction of the Soviet Union.
Two years of Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress got us the first Republican Congress in half a century, followed by tax cuts, welfare reform and a booming economy –- all of which Clinton now claims credit for.
Obama's disastrous presidency has already produced Republican senators from Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Illinois; New Jersey's wonder-governor Chris Christie; and the largest House majority for Republicans since 1946.
We deserve more. Clinton only threatened to wreck the health care system; Obama actually did it. We must repeal the 26th Amendment.
Adopted in 1971 at the tail end of the Worst Generation's anti-war protests, the argument for allowing children to vote was that 18-year-olds could drink and be conscripted into the military, so they ought to be allowed to vote.
But 18-year-olds aren't allowed to drink anymore. We no longer have a draft. In fact, while repealing the 26th Amendment, we ought to add a separate right to vote for members of the military, irrespective of age.
As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote." The new motto is: "Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote."
Eighteen- to 26-year-olds don't have property, spouses, children or massive tax bills. Most of them don't even have jobs because the president they felt so good about themselves for supporting wrecked the economy.
The meager tax young people paid for vehicle licensing fees on their cars threw them into such a blind rage that in 2003 they uncharacteristically voted to recall the Democratic governor of California, Gray Davis. Wait until they start making real money and realize they share a joint-checking account arrangement with the government! Literally wait. Then we'll let them vote.
Having absolutely no idea what makes their precious cars run, by the way, young voters are the most likely to oppose offshore drilling.
How about 10-year-olds? Why not give them the vote?
Then we'd have politicians wooing voters with offers of free Justin Bieber tickets instead of offers of a "sustainable planet" or whatever hokum the youth have swallowed hook, line and sinker from their teachers, pop culture idols and other authority figures. (Along with their approved-by-the-authorities "Question Authority" bumper stickers.)
Like 18-year-olds, the 10-year-olds would be sublimely unaware that they're the ones who will be footing the bill for all these "free" goodies, paying and paying until they die of old age.
Brain research in the last five years at Dartmouth and elsewhere has shown that human brains are not fully developed until age 25 and are particularly deficient in their frontal lobes, which control decision-making, rational thinking, judgment, the ability to plan ahead and to resist impulses.
Unfortunately, we didn't know that in 1971. Those of you who have made it to age 26 without dying in a stupid drinking game -- and I think congratulations are in order, by the way -- understand how insane it is to allow young people to vote.
It would almost be tolerable if everyone under the age of 30 just admitted they voted for Obama because someone said to them, "C'mon, it's really cool! Everyone's doing it!"
We trusted them, and now we know it was a mistake.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
It went OK at first, in 1972 with the war and the draft going on, the Republicans won 52% of the 18 to 29 year old vote.
Grate pic, thanks!
***the argument for allowing children to vote was that 18-year-olds could drink and be conscripted into the military, so they ought to be allowed to vote.**
I read a fictional short story in a magazine back about 1967 about the US dropping the voting age to 16. The teens took over, and kept the older wiser people on drugs to control them.
I don’t remember if it was in ESQUIRE or PLAYBOY (some of us DID read the articles).
Anyone else, 21.
My uncle told us of the first time he ever voted backin 1932. He, and others, were working as carpenters on a house when the sheriff showed up.
Sheriff: You boys gona go vote aren’t you?
They boys looked at each other and shook their heads yes(You didn’t say no to the LAW back then).
Sheriff: Well let’s get in the car and go now.
So they piled into the sheriff’s car and went to the polls.
Poll worker: Are you sure these boys are old enough to vote?
Sheriff: HELL YES THEY’RE OLD ENOUGH AND THEY ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR FDR, AREN’T YOU BOYS!
He said they voted for FDR and left and that was the ONLY time he evere voted in his life. He was 18 years old.
Not according to the Blog Nannies.
They say it has to be on the excerpt list or your thread gets hijacked by them.
But if you are correct, then the below post is LEGITIMATE also. Also a good article exposing fraud in the voting system:
Click Here For A Good Excerpted Read
Or, if you don't like blogs posted on FR, go Here for the original article. It's is not a blog.
It is a good basis,but I would allow property to include more than just real estate. Some young people. in the age range of consideration, have their own bank accounts, investments etc as well as real estate. They too need to experience the consequences of their decisions.
I like all of them!!
Or in the case of ACORN, lots of voter cards filled out (multiple times by the same person in many cases, paid $1) and taken to polls by ACORN workers and stuffed into the ballot boxes.
On lady took her mother to the ACORN people (thinking they were legit signing up people to vote) and she got signed up.
When the mother went to the polls to vote, she was told she already voted.
I took the bottom one
Not such good photography, but GRATE subjects lol!
It is really easy to take a great photo of her :-)
AHHHHIIIII! My eyes! The pimpage! It hurts!
(Sip) Sigh. (Sip) Sigh.
OK, let's try next:
go Here for the original article
YAARRGHHH! EEEIIEEEEP! My eyes! The pimpage! It hurts!
Nope, ain't workin', bud. It hurts with the pimping and the fakery.
There may be good content but it should be posted HERE on FR.
NO pimp should USE us as an advertising platform.
Now I've got to go grab the Visine...
We actually have had imbecile legislators here in Minnesota propose the exact same thing.
In fact I don't even see them as I am busy reading content of articles.
I don't even click on the ads on Coulter’s page
Don't tell her, she thinks I buy everything advertized on her site.
Good!
“if everyone under the age of 30 just admitted they voted for Obama”
I am under 30 and most definitely did NOT vote for the Zero. Remember what they say about assuming, Ann.
You click on the ads.
She was over here last weekend laughing about that.
In a good way, a friendly way.. but laughing.
Click on, clicker!
BS. I had my 4 year degree at age 19. Finished a year of grad school by age 21. Was married at age 21 and owned a condominium at age 21. I paid significant income and property taxes at age 21. My first son was born when I was 23. Ann is way off base with the attack on the age group. Instead, perhaps we need to focus on her complaint. Voters should be tax paying, property owning, productive members of society. Not just persons who have achieved some chronological age by virtue of nothing more than the passage of time. If you don't have "skin in the game", you shouldn't have a voice in how others are burdened with taxes to support those who refuse to be productive.
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