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so nobody who rents can vote?
based on your test how many elderly tea party morons on ss and medicare who get up at the meetings and tell politicians to keep the government out of medicine could vote?
we have a tea party republican running in my state. she rails against government spending. she is a farmer. she has collected over 3 million in farm subsidies in 10 years.
First, no offense, but your user name is a complete misnomer. You're no "free thinker." You're an obvious product of the gov't school/mass media/pop culture machine. Learn to to actually read, write (ever heard of capitalization?) and critically think.
The elderly people on SS you mentioned are largely retirees that paid into the system. HUGE difference between them and those who marry older sugar daddies or fake mental disease to get "crazy checks." (Those are just a couple of examples. Our country is fraught with able-bodied adults who game Federal/state programs to live off the gov't well before they turn 62/65). These are the ones who get bussed in by Jesse Jackson & Co. to steal elections from working taxpayers.
I'm not in favor of farm subsidies and am more libertarian than mainstream Republican. So your example proves nothing to me. However, it's anecdotal and for every politician like that, there are likely 10 Chris "Countrywide Scandal" Dodds or Nancy Pelosis...you know, the type with $28K month rent who fly in private jets to lambast "the rich." Those are the biggest hypocrites.
As for land owners vs. renters, I'd be open to a different test than pure land/property ownership. As long as someone legitimately buys or rents, perhaps they could vote as long as they receive no federal/state handouts--or at least not above a very small minimum threshold.
As a side note, the brilliant--and truly free-thinking--black scholar Thomas Sowell recently wrote, "One of the largely untold stories of our time has been the story of how ACORN, Jesse Jackson and other community activists have been able to transfer billions of dollars from banks to their own organizations' causes, with the aid of the federal government, exemplified by the Community Reinvestment Act and its sequels." If Obama's Justice Dept. was the least bit objective, this would be the first item on their agenda. But they won't even go after night stick wielding Black Panthers who intimidate voters at the polls (felony offense).
