Should Everyone Be Allowed To Vote?

Quote from AlpineTrout:

Just something to think about. Many clearly don't have a clue as to what's going on around them.

You don't have a clue either if think you're actually think your vote matters when it's constricted to two pre-selected candidates that are really part of a ONE party system.
 
Quote from slowdown:

Moronic suggestion. The only one of your conditions I could agree to would be to pass a basicl political test. But real estate ownership? Proof of stock ownership? What about students? What about soliders? Most young adults age 18-22 for example do not own homes so they shouldn't be able to vote?

Clearly, college students and soldiers are not parasites on the ass of society........lets give them an exception.
 
Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:

That's not the 'underlying" precept of my argument at all. If you don't see the electorates penchant for benefits as a destructive fiscal exercise then you should buy this little break in ZB.

Just like Lehman wishes they'd have a big bonus pool this year the market has denied them. Just as American's want their big benefit pool the credit markets will deny them. Tax increases and other revenue enhancements are the short term funding gap equivalent of lipstick on a pig. Over the LONG HAUL there will NEVER be enough revenue to pay off the cost of our rising retirement obligations.

If I was without market view perhaps I'd be more conciliatory toward Obama voters. Instead I have an EXTREME market bias. I expect a chart of ZB to look much like a chart of Citi in 2 years. When that happens it'll be a world so new for the Federal government that there'll be rioting in the streets.


Well, I don't disagree with you about that. 99.9 % of voters have a very short attention span, and while you as a trader have developed this skill or rather think a lot to try to anticipate what the future looks like (because basically that's how you & I make a living), your average voter doesn't care till he's confronted with the "fait accompli"
I don't believe neither Obama nor McCain don't know that their promise of spending & tax cuts are VOID in the current situation, they probably know but aren't able to tell it to the voter, because the voters WANT to hear otherwise.

Sorry P(a)bst, but 8 years of republican rule have made me quite skeptical of the GOP's ability to control spending. and/or limit the national debt.
 
Quote from AlpineTrout:

In nature you will ALWAYS find parasitic relationships. Do you think it's right to allow parasites to vote on how the host distributes its own blood?

1--Your grasp of biology seems to be superficial, at best. Without parasites in your gut, you'd be unable to digest almost anything. that's why it's called "symbiosis." you need them to live, and they too. Neither can "exist" without the other. On the other hand, The US would be just fine without Blacks and Alabama.

2--Next time you go to a parent's meeting at your children's school. Stand up and ask the "stupid" teachers how is it that they fail to look out after their own economic interests by pursuing an ingrate underpaying career. If people who abuse the system are parasites, how do you call people who pay more than their fair share like teachers & soldiers who are paid a misery (value not always monetary) ?
 
Quote from AlpineTrout:

Yes, we're a republic, but there's no right to vote.

No right to vote? Please see the Constitution, in particular, the 15th, 19th, and 26th amendments.

If there is a civics test required to vote, here's one et'er that won't pass! :p

This place is full of them.
 
Quote from smilingsynic:

No right to vote? Please see the Constitution, in particular, the 15th, 19th, and 26th amendments.

If there is a civics test required to vote, here's one et'er that won't pass! :p

This place is full of them.

Look at it very closely, it just ain't there. :eek:
 
Quote from runningman:

Why is it republicans are always trying to keep people from voting? what are you afraid of?

Libertarian here.....................just trying to come up with ideas to keep parasites from running the country into the crapper.
 
oktiri come on man you know that not all parasites are in symbiotic relationsships with their host.

I really didnt peg you for a fact bender.

And I shouldn't even get started on teachers and most other low salary goverment employee's.

The more we talk about so many issues the easier it is for me to believe every facet of our society is too far gone to save.
 
Quote from AlpineTrout:

Look at it very closely, it just ain't there. :eek:

" the RIGHT of citizens to vote shall not be denied......." direct quote from the 15th ammendment...granted the ammendments are not a part of the ORIGINAL constitution however are now considered by the Supreme Court of the US to be part of the constitutional RIGHTS of its citizens.
 
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