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To: hattend
Women shouldn't be allowed to hold public office and non-male, non-property owners shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Yes, I mean it. It was set up that way for several reasons.

105 posted on 11/21/2009 5:40:48 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: elkfersupper

Thank God I own property, Elkie!! But, I know you’d count MY vote. :)

This whole thing is making me physically ill. How we will survive this administration remains to be seen. *BARF*


110 posted on 11/21/2009 5:45:05 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (We have a Pisher in Chief!)
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To: elkfersupper

I agree with you. I’m a woman myself, and I’ve been saying the same thing for years.


129 posted on 11/21/2009 6:07:52 PM PST by 1951Boomer
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To: elkfersupper

Frankly, I agree. And I mean it.


132 posted on 11/21/2009 6:11:44 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: elkfersupper
Women shouldn't be allowed to hold public office and non-male, non-property owners shouldn't be allowed to vote.

I wholeheartedly agree. I'd gladly give up my vote if it meant that the rest of the silly, emotion-ruling instead of rationality, fools lost theirs as well. My sex is an embarrassment to me.

141 posted on 11/21/2009 6:26:55 PM PST by publana (Obama, you will not intimidate me into not voicing my opinions.)
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To: elkfersupper
Yep.


How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (download links for whole document at bottom of page)

September 1998

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

Abstract:
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.


154 posted on 11/21/2009 6:59:38 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: elkfersupper

Well I agree about the public office part..but not being able to vote because you dont own property? I guess everyone in the military who just signed up are screwed then eh?


192 posted on 11/22/2009 10:02:31 AM PST by Soothesayer9
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