You responded: "No! No one feeding at the public trough should vote.
Are you running a comedy routine, or what? You mean to tell me that members of the armed forces should not be allowed to vote? So, logically speaking, you must have applauded Al Gore's efforts to prevent the absentee ballots of servicemen from being counted in his attempted theft of Florida's electoral votes. And, by logical extension, nobody in the country should be allowed to vote because we all have a vested interest.
And, BTW, I'm still waiting for your source for stating that the founding fathers didn't want federal employees to have the right to vote.
Certainly not the professional officer corps; enlisted men, maybe. Draftees, of any rank, were the draft in place, I would not deny the vote. Had we a citizen army (a necessary feature of a true democracy) like the Swiss, I would certainly not deny its members the vote.
"And, by logical extension, nobody in the country should be allowed to vote because we all have a vested interest."
And you accuse me of running a comedy routine. Those who suckle at the federal teats (to use the great Abraham Lincoln's metaphor) have a "vested interest" that the rest of us don't share.
"And, BTW, I'm still waiting for your source for stating that the founding fathers didn't want federal employees to have the right to vote."
That is what I was taught in school, and in more than one course. My cursory attempts to find a source have not succeeded, and finding it is not one of my current top priorities. But I shall continue looking and when I find it, I will surely let you know.
By the way, it took you a long time to respond, do you actually have work to do today?
I'd better modify that. For "any" read "the most egregious"; I'm not going to make this a full-time project.