Posted on 05/08/2009 12:06:36 PM PDT by Welcome2thejungle
Will the literacy tests be availiable in Eubonics?
Male only voting isn’t going to win many converts... how about one vote per household, as defined by tax filing status, instead?
You know, of course, this means you are a racist who want disenfranchise America’s most helpless people, etc, etc, etc.
There should def be a test — and only 3 questions are necessary.
1)Who is the current POTUS?
2)Who is the current VPOTUS?
3)Who is the current SOTH?
Few I’ve asked can answer all 3. Most only get #1.
Good post. Well written. You are a brave man for bringing that issue up, FRiend.
I do think that many of our founding fathers had it right with allowing men to vote only if they were property owners. Elections are being swung too much by folks that don’t have a pot to pee in.
Restrict voting to net taxpayers only.
I lived in Mississippi when they had both. The poll taxes were not much $2 - $3 and the money was used to pay the poll workers. The literacy tests were very basic, probably at the 3rd grade level at the most and were just to see that the voter had some basic concept of government. Of course, The Federal Government declared this discriminatory and banned both. The average IQ of the electorate has been dropping ever since.
The result is an islamo-fascist usurper in The White House and a Congress headed by one of the stupidest women in the Country.
European socialism as we know it only exists today because the United States prevents it from becoming full-blown, mass-murdering communism.
Once the U.S. (as we know it) disappears, the marxists have free reign to do whatever they want everywhere. The earth will be covered in blood.
European socialism, as bad as it is, is nothing compared to the real deal.
While I exercise my right to vote, I do believe that the decline of civilization as we know it can be directly tied to the womens lib movement. Mans worse mistake may have been giving women the right to vote. Just my opinion.
“Elections are being swung too much by folks that don’t have a pot to pee in.”
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Actually, it goes beyond that even. They are a net debtor to the government.
Get on the debit side of the ledger before you receive the PRIVILEGE of voting. Just because you take up space, should not mean that you get the right to shape the future of the country.
While I agree with the sentiment, there are not now and there never have been any Federal elections.
ML/NJ
In my test, you’d have to name every justice on the supreme court and the presidents who nominated them, in addition to naming current high profile office holders and your state-and-district specific House and Senate representatives. You’d also have to name specific legislation that had been passed in the last year, and specific cases SCOTUS had ruled on in the last year. In English. Spelling and penmanship count. You have fifteen minutes to complete the exam. Fail it once, try again in four years. Fail it three times, you never get to take it again.
Democrats used them to hurt Republicans.
Expect the same to re-occur.
Whoops. I misspelled his name. He is Alexander Fraser Tytler.
If it were up to me, I’d limit voting to net taxpayers only.
But I’ve been informed that such sentiment is racist, sexist, homophobic, and violation of civil ‘rights.’
OK, I’ll bite:
SotH - What does SotH stand for?
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/SotH
I’m hoping this isn’t a reference to Lord Soth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Soth
as I would be hard-pressed to argue this is essential knowledge required for voting...
Isn’t a federal election when you vote for individuals running for federal office—president, U.S. Senators, and U.S. House of Represenatives?
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