Posted on 10/12/2013 12:54:01 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
So you would restrict my first amendment rights and take away my right to vote because of who my employer is? Thankfully, you don’t get to do that. And by the way, GFY.
TC
So let me get this straight. We’re revising the constitution so that people who might vote in their best interests are no longer allowed to?
And freedom of speech through campaign contributions will be limited to those who agree with us?
I’m sure this is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind when the penned the constitution.
Everything you’ve suggested is antithetical to conservative values. It makes me sick.
I don’t see what’s hard to see here. Washington DC cannot vote for President precisely for this reason.
And your observation about most federal employees being conservative ... I don’t think so. There are ample stats to look at in regards to the breakdown of ‘identified as democratic’ and ‘identified as conservative’, there is even a disproportionate amount of minority and women in the Federal Workforce as well.
The fact is, Federal workers become a ready made constituency for people willing to give them lots of money, lots of union representation, and lots of benefits.
Take away their vote and take away their campaign contributions.
It can easily be done, all new hires and re-hires lose these mechanisms for furthering their agenda through graft, kick backs, nepotism, blackmail, bribary and the opposite end, threats, intimidation and retributions.
Oh, I see you’re using the Moron argument. Are you qualified? Cause you’ve only shown your idiot qualifications.
Build a straw man with ‘colored people can’t vote’ argument. That’s like so 2nd grade.
Are you going to continue to insist that I’m talking about minorities not being able to vote rather than people with gainful employment from the Federal Government? Or do you have some real rebuttal that actually is in context and without silly little 2nd grade strawmen?
Government employees are not allowed to organize, and work at-will.
You’re working the problem from the wrong side of the equation — reducing the size of the government and the requisite quantity of employees is the way to go, IMO. The “shutdown” has already done part of the job by identifying the non-critical positions, add in the National Park Service employees that chose to follow orders and kept WW2 vets away from their memorial and you have a good start.
“Why not require military service in order to vote?” That was the premise of Robert Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers.” To be a “Citizen” with the right to vote, one had to first serve in the military. Read the book, ignore the movie.
“I don’t see what’s hard to see here. Washington DC cannot vote for President precisely for this reason.”
Washington DC has 3 electoral votes for President.
See post 21. GFY.
Read the book, saw the movie, married a niece. It was good pulp sci-fi for a 14 year old, but can you imagine LRH was furious because people considered RAH the better writer of the two.
I never cared for Hubbard, much preferred Heinlein.
BTTT!
Thanks. I pitched my two cents in #18.
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