Should the recipient class be allowed a vote? (salaries, regime, conspiracy)

[NHartphotog]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

Everyone who is a citizen should be allowed to vote, including prisoners and convicted felons. If you're a citizen of this country, you have a stake in its future, and the government should not be allowed to take that away, by any means.

If you are on the public dole, you are going to vote for any politician who will give you more money. '

If you don't work, you couldn't care less what the tax burden of the working people is.

It is immensely easy and rewarding to give away other people's money; politicians are addicted to it on a massive scale. This is how we get such huge governments spending such obscene amounts of money, eventually becoming so large that the economy dies under the weight of overtaxation and overregulation.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by alphamale

It's not about political affiliation.

There are plenty of republicans on the dole.

......hence, my point.

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by alphamale

It doesn't matter.

If you are self sufficient, and not suckling from the government tit, you are not part of the recipient class.

You deserve to have a vote.

Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Thiokol - you work for these guys, you're out? Work on GE's alternate F-35 engine, you're not voting?

[alphamale]

Originally Posted by Dane_in_LA

Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Thiokol - you work for these guys, you're out? Work on GE's alternate F-35 engine, you're not voting?

Why?

Do you consider people who work for companies that do government contract work recipient class?

[Donna-501]

Originally Posted by andrea3821

No, you need to reread what I said. I never claimed that to be fact, it is my opinion based on personal experience.

What exactly do you take issue with? My belief that the "recipient class" is ignorant of politics or the fact that people who are ignorant of politics should not be voting?

and how would you know that? How many "recipient class" people do you know?

[Donna-501]

Originally Posted by andrea3821

No, voting is a right, but with rights come responsibilities. In this case, knowledge of each candidate and issue are the responsibilities.

Honestly, I could deal with the "recipient class" voting if they could prove they know real facts about the issues. Same goes for any other class. We have too many people who just vote for someone b/c they were told to, their name sounds good, their slogan sounds good, Christmas-treeing the thing, etc. That's a huge problem.

Where you aware that many people in all "classes" don't have a clue but go by what others say and vote that way. So do you want to give a test to see if they fit up to your standards?

[vicket]

Originally Posted by Brian Scates

The poor dude, single mother, and the guy who gets medicare. They are the ones that shouldn't be able to vote. They contribute nothing to society.

Someone turned those "single mothers" into mothers...if the moms can't vote=then neither can the dads.

[pvande55]

Restrict voting to those who are currently working, that is the system is working for them, but not those put out of work or otherwise unable to earn income due to policies enacted by current office-holders? That is the perfect "incumbent protection" plan.

[desertdetroiter]

Fact is, the recipient class, as defined by the OP, hardly votes anyway. Why should they? They have little skin in the game.

[oldtimer2]

There is no recipient class.

That is just another catch phrase for nothing more than smoke and mirrors propaganda proffered by self elected and phony elitists.