Did you notice that all of your links are to lunatic organizations?
This is advice i am happy to give you and Jem both, and for no charge. You can thank me later. If you follow this advice it can save you a great deal of embarrassment as you go through life.. The advice is: Whenever you read, or hear, something that does not make sense, or is not logical, assume it is probably not correct. Then if it is important to you, spend some time to check out the details. You will find in virtually 100 percent of these instances, what you read was politically slanted, intentionally misleading, intentional misinformation, misquoted, or important details were accidentally, or intentionally left out. Trust your brain and your common sense. So for your benefit: (I did the legwork this time, next time you do it.)
"Information about anyone who does not decline registration will be electronically transmitted from the DMV to the secretary of state’s office, where citizenship will be verified and names will be added to the voter rolls."
see for example: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-pol-ca-motor-voter-law-20151016-html-htmlstory.html
And numerous other legitimate reference sites regarding California law.
The army, navy, airforce, coast guard and VA are socialist as well, or are they? What has always puzzled me is that not a few consider these military outfits to be the least efficient parts of government; yet those who say they want to shrink the government , because they say the government can't do anything as efficiently as the private sector, actually want to spend more, not less, on the military???Shades of grey?
Every country, by that narrow definition, qualifies as "socialist". Ancient Rome or Egypt were 'socialist' because they levied taxes to provide for the common defense, and staff government/administrators and public utilities, like roads.
Know what I mean? I think the point here is just because America does have some socialist welfare programs in existence now, doesn't mean we should socialize the entire system because we already are (sort of) 'socialist'. It's illogical.
Most documents, or secure electronic records, that trace to citizenship may be used. These would be records ultimately traceable to birth records or naturalization.ok, i looked at your source, snopes and others regarding this issue and what i found doesn't really convince me.
You use a quote saying the sec of state's office will verify citizenship and names will be added to voter rolls.
So what is that supposed to mean? Some kind of independent verification? Not that i can tell. I found no evidence on your link or any other that there is any independent verification. It appears to me that the 'verification' process used by the sec of state is that they check the documents sent in from the dmv and that is the entirety of the verification process.
And snopes tries to assure us that this is perfectly legit by quoting the sec of state that 'the vast majority of the time they use passport of birth cert to verify when registering to vote.
http://www.snopes.com/california-motor-voter-act/
A. vast majority of the time? Uh, what about the rest of the time?
B. this snopes article also seems to verify my contention that your "secretary of state will verify citizenship' is nothing more than they look at the info the dmv sent in and that is the totality of their 'verification' process. Nothing whatsoever of an independent nature to 'verify' citizenship.
Are you embarrassed yet? You should be.
Well, that was exactly my point. Every civilization going back since the dawn of recorded history, had an element of 'socialism' in their society. Taxation for military, Government functions, infrastructure etc...The army, navy, airforce, coast guard and VA are socialist as well, or are they? What has always puzzled me is that not a few consider these military outfits to be the least efficient parts of government; yet those who say they want to shrink the government , because they say the government can't do anything as efficiently as the private sector, actually want to spend more, not less, on the military???
Most documents, or secure electronic records, that trace to citizenship may be used. These would be records ultimately traceable to birth records or naturalization.
Ultimately you place yourself in one camp that trusts public employees to do their job correctly òr the camp that assumes most of them are incompetent jackasses. It's similar to placing youself in either the "Barrack Hussein Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya" or the "Obama is a non-muslim born in Hawaii camp" . You get to decide this for yourself and will be judged by sane people accordingly.
You may want to check into this if it is of interest to you, but I think the Fed has not been audited by the GAO on an annual basis, but rather on a periodic basis. The Fed does have two regular annual audits in addition to periodic GAO audits: their own internal audit of course, and the Inspector General's audit. The Fed has its own inspector General. But As I pointed out some time back, the Modern Fed, since Bernanke, has responded to criticism of not being transparent enough in its transactions by posting all its transactions, however a few such postings are intentionally delayed. It was some of these delayed transaction posting that Bloomberg launched a FOIA action over.by the way Piezoe... Bernie has called total bullshit on you. remember what you said about the fed being fully audited... a few months ago...
http://truthinmedia.com/bernie-sanders-calls-full-independent-audit-federal-reserve/
2016 Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders wrote an op-ed for The New York Times on Wednesday calling for the Federal Reserve to be audited independently by the Government Accountability Office on an annual basis.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has scheduled a historic Jan. 12 vote on a bill, colloquially referred to as “Audit the Fed,” which was introduced by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). The bill would authorize the GAO to perform full audits of the Federal Reserve System.
“To rein in Wall Street, we should begin by reforming the Federal Reserve, which oversees financial institutions and which uses monetary policy to maintain price stability and full employment. Unfortunately, an institution that was created to serve all Americans has been hijacked by the very bankers it regulates,” wrote Sen. Sanders.
He added, “What went wrong at the Fed? The chief executives of some of the largest banks in America are allowed to serve on its boards. During the Wall Street crisis of 2007, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive and chairman of JPMorgan Chase, served on the New York Fed’s board of directors while his bank received more than $390 billion in financial assistance from the Fed. Next year, four of the 12 presidents at the regional Federal Reserve Banks will be former executives from one firm: Goldman Sachs.”
Sanders called for the Glass-Steagall Act to be reinstated, a Depression-era banking regulation that created a wall of separation between consumer and investment banks prior to its repeal by former President Bill Clinton. He also suggested that the Fed should be prevented from providing incentives to encourage banks to sit on cash reserves.
“As a condition of receiving financial assistance from the Fed,” said Sanders, “large banks must commit to increasing lending to creditworthy small businesses and consumers, reducing credit card interest rates and fees, and providing help to underwater and struggling homeowners.”
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Sanders argued that the Federal Reserve suffers from a lack of transparency. “In 2010, I inserted an amendment in Dodd-Frank to audit the emergency lending by the Fed during the financial crisis. We need to go further and require the Government Accountability Office to conduct a full and independent audit of the Fed each and every year,” he said.
Audit the Fed legislation first became a hot political topic as a result of the sudden, meteoric 2008 rise to popularity of libertarian icon and former Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), who made the push for Fed transparency a central focus of his entire political career.
I liked your use of this expression, and I may want to borrow it on occasion, if you don't mind. I'm not sure it is strictly correct, but it has the virtue of succinctly making us aware that there are degrees of filth in world politics, and helping us remember that we are not dealing with absolutes.America is the cleanest dirty shirt in the global closet