Ian MacQuade Wrote...... Libertad, I like what you say, and agree with all of it. However, the voting thang ain't gonna fly. Lawsuits will tho, cuz the ignorant poor will claim discrimination. They'll be totally left out of the loop. No bus, no free chicken dinner, and no one to tell them who to vote for. Even if they line up at the local library to use their voting computers, they'll have to have someone read the screen outloud, and even hit the Enter key. Way too many Americans just can't read. I like the idea of a literacy test. I even think that only those that own land should be allowed to vote. But I"m in the minority on that one. ............................................................................... How about this..... If you can read....and can use a computer....you can vote.....otherwise....no.... This is a very small incentive.... No age restrictions.... .......................................................................... However by birth alone....will own 1 township interest....
Gnome, Unfortunately Jim Rogers is correct again....if you have wealth....the only way to keep it is to make the world yours....and not theirs..... Which....some already have......
Yes, maybe that's what's needed for the sailor, a wake up call to change his ways. Maybe the nation needs to feel max pain, a final call so to speak, hopefully then it would be enough to get most people to wake up and see what's happening. Otherwise, itâs just numbing the symptoms, diverting attention, while the underlying problems grow.
The US Becoming Socialist By Default ? What to Do.... You can always use the standard go to line. "It's da liburrls at it again!.....
An example of liberalism/socialism run amuck: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080724/D9245OE8A.html
Here here . . . the problem is that we live in a country with 300 million residents, 95 million eligible voters and only 15 testicles between all of them. Apathy is killing America!
In a sense, the apathy is justified... and it's not "apathy" killing America.. it's FEDERAL POLITICIANS... LYING, THIEVING BASTARDS... INTENTIONALLY MILKING AMERICA'S WEALTH FOR THIER OWN BENEFIT.. which is killing America!!!!!!!!! Not EVERY American citizen is a student of history... so we don't have any idea of what's being done to us. Basically, we collectively "buy the bullshit of the biggest bullshitter" at election time.... looks like Obama, this time (Heaven help us!!) Besides, it doesn't really matter who votes or if anyone votes at all... the system is rigged for the politicos to continue doing "bidness as usual.. RAPING the public purse for thier own personal benefit".... same as it's always been throughout history.
The apathy wasn't directed at voting because that has been a joke for decades . . . but standing up for ourselves collectively still will work.