ScreamingEagle
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It's a slow day, so care to discuss? We all know the candidates are hot to roust out as many votes as they can, mostly from the ranks of the typically non-voting politically ignorant who normally only care about what's in it for them. Informed people value their vote and will be at the polls. Neil Boortz has some rather interesting thoughts about the "ignorant vote":
"Let’s cut to the chase. I’ve come to the reluctant but inescapable conclusion that about 50% of the adults in this country are simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in a free society. They have enthusiastically abandoned their sovereignty to the lure of the welfare state. The real problem here is that the rest of us are constantly suffering encroachments on our own freedoms to provide for the survival of the ignorant. "
"I am now and have been for years a firm advocate of developing a system to limit the people who can vote in this country. We need to find a way to restrict the number of people who can vote. If we don’t weed out the chaff soon it may well be too late.
Don’t give me that “democracy” nonsense. In spite of what you hear from your government school teacher, your leftist college professor, or that smiling talking head on television, we are not a democracy. Never were. Weren’t supposed to be. You won’t find the word “democracy” in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States or in any constitution of any of the 50 States. There’s a reason for that. Our founding fathers hated the idea of democracy. They knew that a government of majority rule would dissolve into a tyranny of plunder and chaos.
In anticipation of yet another knee-jerk response to my proposal that we limit voting, let me remind you that there is absolutely no constitutional guarantee of your right to vote in any federal election. Do some reading. It isn’t there. A latte to the person who can find anything in our Constitution that sounds remotely like “each citizen shall have the right to vote in a federal election.” Happy hunting.
Suggestions? OK, here you go. Chose the one you like the best and let’s start a movement.
1. Welfare recipients. Those who depend on government forced income redistribution should stay at home on election day and enjoy the fruits of plunder. With all the opportunity that America offers, if you haven’t managed to obtain some level of self-sufficiency by the time you’re a young adult then you should leave important decisions, like who’s going to lead this country, to more qualified citizens.
2. Voters without a clue. Less than one-fourth of Americans can name the two Senators from their home state. The majority of Americans can’t tell you who the Secretary of State or the Vice President is. As voters enter a polling place they should be given a simple short quiz. Name your congressman, your two Senators and the Vice President. Those who successfully answer ALL the questions get sent to a voting machine that actually works. Those who can’t pass this simple citizenship test get shuttled off to a voting machine with no innards. They can punch buttons to their heart’s content, but all they’re getting is some rather lame exercise. They voted, they’re happy. We know their votes don’t count. We’re ecstatic!
I have more ideas, but not enough space. For those of you who do believe strongly that everyone should be able to vote, I have an alternate proposal. President Calvin Coolidge once said that “The business of America is business.” Let’s put that concept to work at the voting booth. Let’s treat America like a business and make every American a shareholder. Shareholders get to vote their shares at the shareholder’s meeting every two years.
Did I say shares? Plural? Yup. Just as with any business corporation, not everyone has the same number of shares. Just how do you acquire shares in America, Inc.? Well, you have one share issued to you just by virtue of your being a citizen. You buy additional shares by paying income taxes.
Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it?"
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/nealboortz/nb20040528.shtml
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/nealboortz/nb20040924.shtml
"Let’s cut to the chase. I’ve come to the reluctant but inescapable conclusion that about 50% of the adults in this country are simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in a free society. They have enthusiastically abandoned their sovereignty to the lure of the welfare state. The real problem here is that the rest of us are constantly suffering encroachments on our own freedoms to provide for the survival of the ignorant. "
"I am now and have been for years a firm advocate of developing a system to limit the people who can vote in this country. We need to find a way to restrict the number of people who can vote. If we don’t weed out the chaff soon it may well be too late.
Don’t give me that “democracy” nonsense. In spite of what you hear from your government school teacher, your leftist college professor, or that smiling talking head on television, we are not a democracy. Never were. Weren’t supposed to be. You won’t find the word “democracy” in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States or in any constitution of any of the 50 States. There’s a reason for that. Our founding fathers hated the idea of democracy. They knew that a government of majority rule would dissolve into a tyranny of plunder and chaos.
In anticipation of yet another knee-jerk response to my proposal that we limit voting, let me remind you that there is absolutely no constitutional guarantee of your right to vote in any federal election. Do some reading. It isn’t there. A latte to the person who can find anything in our Constitution that sounds remotely like “each citizen shall have the right to vote in a federal election.” Happy hunting.
Suggestions? OK, here you go. Chose the one you like the best and let’s start a movement.
1. Welfare recipients. Those who depend on government forced income redistribution should stay at home on election day and enjoy the fruits of plunder. With all the opportunity that America offers, if you haven’t managed to obtain some level of self-sufficiency by the time you’re a young adult then you should leave important decisions, like who’s going to lead this country, to more qualified citizens.
2. Voters without a clue. Less than one-fourth of Americans can name the two Senators from their home state. The majority of Americans can’t tell you who the Secretary of State or the Vice President is. As voters enter a polling place they should be given a simple short quiz. Name your congressman, your two Senators and the Vice President. Those who successfully answer ALL the questions get sent to a voting machine that actually works. Those who can’t pass this simple citizenship test get shuttled off to a voting machine with no innards. They can punch buttons to their heart’s content, but all they’re getting is some rather lame exercise. They voted, they’re happy. We know their votes don’t count. We’re ecstatic!
I have more ideas, but not enough space. For those of you who do believe strongly that everyone should be able to vote, I have an alternate proposal. President Calvin Coolidge once said that “The business of America is business.” Let’s put that concept to work at the voting booth. Let’s treat America like a business and make every American a shareholder. Shareholders get to vote their shares at the shareholder’s meeting every two years.
Did I say shares? Plural? Yup. Just as with any business corporation, not everyone has the same number of shares. Just how do you acquire shares in America, Inc.? Well, you have one share issued to you just by virtue of your being a citizen. You buy additional shares by paying income taxes.
Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it?"
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/nealboortz/nb20040528.shtml
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/nealboortz/nb20040924.shtml
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