I agree not everyone should vote. Some people don’t follow the news or political issues. These people should not vote because they aren’t thinking about candidates and issues.
Think about this — If you support McCain, for example, your vote is cancelled out if some person ignorant of the issues votes for Obama.
My view: Anyone who has not filed an IRS 1040 showing earned income for at least one year (preferably past 3 years) previous to a federal election should not be allowed to vote - period. If you don’t earn money legally, you should not have a say in how anyone elses’s money shall be redistributed, nor in how this country is run. If you don’t have sufficient gumption to get out and work - at any job - you have no business voting.
Yes, I was considering putting up a site advising people not to vote if they haven’t done the research.
A mindless vote is worse than no vote!
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Stossel speaks a truth that most only whisper these days. Uninformed, ignorant voters impose the worst possible government on our society. We largely have our politicized public education system to thank for the problem IMO.
If you draw more in government benefits or compensation than you pay in taxes, you should not be permitted to vote.
I’m pretty confident my 26-year old daughter and her pothead friends will be too hung over or stoned to get off their asses and find the polls.
Those who don’t show a positive number on their “tax” line (44) of their 1040 should not vote.
I wasn’t registered to vote till I decided that I wanted to vote. No one came to me to register me and no one offered to take me to the polls. It required desire and a litte effort on my part. Able bodied people who can’t do that much really shouldn’t be voting.
The ACORN line of crap that they register homeless and low income people to vote is a pile of bull puckey meant to convince people that they can’t vote otherwise.
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But Nickolodeon kids choice, chose Barack Obama!
My 7 year old froze when they announced that and said “Is Barack Obama going to be the President for Kids!?!”
Poor thing, they terrified her.
I respectfully disagree.
Everyone who CAN vote, Should vote.
Those who don’t care won’t even go to the polls.
Those who know nothing will balance out those who know nothing. Statistically, they will distribute their votes evenly across the candidates.
Those who are totally confused, or overwhelmed by the information will fall in with those who know nothing.
Which leaves us with those who know what they are doing; and those who think they know what they are doing, but have bad information.
Americans had bad information from GW Bush & Co about going into Iraq. It was a deliberate denial of, and alteration of information concerning justification for military action. Most of us were supporting something for reasons that in reality didn’t exist. We are responsible for what we supported; but we are also responsible for implementing corrections (or not) once we found out the truth.
So those who know, or think they know, should get out and vote. Take responsibility for your selections. And don’t sweat it that there are plenty of fools in the voting lines.
I’m of the mind that only property owners should be able to vote. Now THAT is kickin’ it ol’ school! Property owners actually have a stake in how limited or expansive their gov’t is. Alas, it will never happen. We are close to the magic number 51%. Once 51% figure out they can vote themselves a raise, or goodies from the gov’t, this Republic is doomed.
But that's the democrat base!
I imagine that the majority voters that are registered at events like rock concerts, such as Puffy Daddy's Vote or Die, never make it to the Polls. They just register at the time to get a free t-shirt or pack of smokes.
If you register people to vote who otherwise would not be bothered, if you ‘help’ people who have no interest or idea about whom to vote for, you are essentially getting another vote vicariously. Leave people alone. The only people who should be allowed to vote are those for whom it is important enough to take the time to register and to vote. The government should provide help only for people who ask for it, but it should be illegal to go out and harvest votes from otherwise unmotivated people.
Our saving grace is that, even though the libs work hard to register those voters, most of them don’t bother to actually VOTE.
John speaks directly to the dummycrat penchant for taking the ignorant, registering them, then pointing to where they should put their “X.”