Posted on 09/06/2011 11:41:47 AM PDT by Twotone
Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote?
Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Voting should be reverted back to its original intent. You do not read about non-slave-owning moochers voting in the late 1770s!
William Flax
You didn’t answer my question.
OK.
Stupid article...oh my God the poor get to vote!
Ring wing organizations should be registering the poor too, duh!
20+ million illegal aliens are in effect prospective democrats..
Anyone for amnesty or anything like amnesty is FOR more democrats..
i.e. Perry, Romney, Juan McLame.. (BUSH{all of them})
Why stop there?
People who want to limit which citizens can vote and which can't shouldn't be allowed to vote!
Why stop there?
People who want to limit which citizens can vote and which can't shouldn't be allowed to vote!
I don’t mind non-tax-paying non-land-owning people voting, what I do mind is them voting themselves money not just out of the treasury but out of the national credit card _and_ voting to raise the credit limit. THIS IS INSANE.
Yes, that’s the next step after imposing a “balance the budget” imperative: uniform flat tax. I don’t care so much what the mode of taxation is so long as everyone has a fair share of (if income tax, then N% thereof ... make 1000x as much, pay 1000x as much).
That...is awesome.
Nigh unto worthless properties for a long time to come, but so long as I could find one with a mountain view I’d be happy.
Stop...tempting...me...
“If you receive an unearned benefit from the Federal Government, there ought to be an appropriate cut-off of voting rights for a period comparable to that in which your conflict of interest is apparent, plus two years—or some such..”
Personally, I think that’s reasonable but it won’t ever happen. There’s too much emphasis on the ‘right’ over the responsibility. One thing Republicans can do, as they gain control at the state level, is to rescind motor voter & other ways to easily register voters. Voting should be the act of a responsible person, willing to make the effort to go to their county elections office & register. And voting should require the physical effort to go to your poll station, give proof of identity, & then vote.
We have vote by mail here in Oregon, & I’m sure our elections are rife with fraud.
There-in lies another key point: force the Sec of State to purge voter rolls. If necessary, make it so you have to re-register every five years, just like a drivers license.
That should take care of some of the problem.
it isn’t un-american but it may be anti-american. the democrat party is not un-american but it is anti-american. OTOH the CBC is un-american, anti-american, and recist.
So someone paying taxes for SSI disability, who then becomes disabled, is receiving an earned benefit too, right?
Read this thread entirely.
We may defeat Obama in 2012, but we are screwed unless something changes. Obamama is a problem, but not the problem. The problem is the lowest common denominator electorate that elected a Marxist rabble rouser with no governing/business experience.
The democrats can always import illegal voters at a faster rate than we can create working, responsible citizens. They have the demographics on their side.
Unless those non-working citizens who receive govt. free money are denied the vote, they will vote for whomever buys their vote.
“The problem is the lowest common denominator electorate that elected a Marxist rabble rouser with no governing/business experience.”
I have to disagree. Yes, this is part of the problem, but Obama was elected by white, middle class people suffering from white guilt. I’ve mentioned this on other threads. My mother is a LIFE-LONG Republican. She’s 85 & spends her days sitting in front of a tv - mostly CNN & ABC (The View, Oprah). When we talked about the elections she said the Republicans were ‘horrible’ even though she’d previously been for McCain against W. She wouldn’t say (or couldn’t say) what exactly was horrible, but I know it was most likely that she thought Sarah Palin was horrible. Sarah was characterized by the left-wing media as an incoherent moron. Obama on the other hand was characterized as a brilliant academic who’d lectured on the constitution. My mother insisted Obama was moderate & happily voted for him.
To this day she will not acknowledge what he truly is.
Part of our problem will be resolved by making voting a bit more difficult so only those who are truly interested do it. Next we need to do something about the media & force them to be honest. I have no idea how we’ll do that.
Oh Really?
The mentally ill? The comatose? The illiterate? Morans, imbeciles and idiots? The dead? The incarcerated? The non-productive? Welfare recipients? Can't pass a drug test?
Really?
Add one to your list, people who double post are not allowed to vote.
Double Posters are the worst!
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