Quote from Lucrum:
08-07-11 11:53 AM
The founding fathers also allowed for the continuation of slavery. Were you OK with that? There have been 27 constitutional amendments including one that reversed another.
The founding fathers in all their wisdom did not and could not possibly foresee the future. I don't take amending the constitution lightly. But it certainly has been necessary in the past.
The benefits have been stated by me and BSAM repeatedly. In fact I consider them to be both obvious and indisputable. You're simply dismissing them out of hand, for reasons I'll probably never understand.
Now again I'll ask you, what would be the harm/downside?
For the most part I agree with you. But many of the voting public no longer pay taxes and it's in their interest to keep electing the same fools that reward them with welfare checks in exchange for votes. Welfare paid for with my tax dollars, assuming you're not a welfare queen, your tax dollars as well.
Between welfare, ignorance and stupidity we're beyond the point of no return for "fixing" the voting public. I can't imagine how anyone with the IQ of a Lima bean can't see that. We have speed limits, fish and game limits, political donation limits, term limits on the POTUS, carry on luggage limits, etc etc etc... Think of congressional term limits as simply a way of forcing the voting public to stop being so selfish and stupid.
