[pburgh01]

Let's see --- My first vote was in 1980 - I was in college and still lived at home. I moved into an apartment, in another state, in 1982 when I got out of school. I moved back into an apartment when I got divorced in 1988. I bought my first house in 1992, my second, in yet again another state in 2003. In late 2009 I broke down and applied for food stamps, when after more than a year my husband and I could not get regular work and every penny we were making was going to keep the roof over our head and the power on and food in our daughter's belly and clothes on her ever growing back. It was damned hard for me to do that. That first vote I cast was for Ronald Reagan and in all the ensuing years I have served on my local GOP committees, including serving as an officer more than once and delegate to the state GOP convention 8 years running. I've been a FReeper in good standing and have participated in my fair share of FReeps. I've worked at the grass roots level since before I ever even heard of the internet......... And you're all for straight up voter disenfranchisement of me.

Yes I am! If we can keep 10 drones for voting for every College Republican I would be happy with that outcome. As far as your scenario, you being on foodstamps, damn right you should not be able to vote. I think if Washington and Jefferson were alive today they would agree with me. There is not even a debate that people on public assistance OVWERWHELMINGLY vote liberal, so sorry you were proud, poor and Conservative, we can't trust you in the polling place to do the right thing.

[Gabz]

Yes I am! If we can keep 10 drones for voting for every College Republican I would be happy with that outcome. As far as your scenario, you being on foodstamps, damn right you should not be able to vote. I think if Washington and Jefferson were alive today they would agree with me. There is not even a debate that people on public assistance OVWERWHELMINGLY vote liberal, so sorry you were proud, poor and Conservative, we can't trust you in the polling place to do the right thing.

College Republican? Not hardly. What a laugh.

YOU don't trust me to do the right thing in a polling place? There are a lot of FReepers who will tell you otherwise, and I really don't think you wish for me to call any of them into this conversation.

Listen, buster, whether you wish to acknowledge it or not, such things as food stamps were created as a safety net measure and not intended to become a way of life.

Hardworking people do occasionally fall on hard times, thank your lucky stars you have no clue what I'm talking about.

Which is obvious from your lack of reading comprehension skills.

It didn't matter to you in the least that my husband and I were doing what we could to pay the bills. Nope, we're just liberal leeches. Just because we took some temporary, steady, assistance.

It is this sanctimonious attitude you have taken here that is giving conservatives a bad name. there is no give in you whatsoever..........just like the LSM says.

YUP --- you are behaving here just like the caricature you claim as the LSM portrayal of conservatives.

BTW, the day my husband landed a steady job was the day I called social services and ditched the assistance, even though I was told I was still eligible for a lesser amount.

What a shame for your sanctimony. According to your standards, both my husband and I are fully eligible to participate in the political process.

You can kiss my grits.