The rich should get more votes

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

We rent houses.
Sec. 8 is a welfare program for Families With Dependent children. We accept them as well. Since our rentals are more upscale we look at hundreds of applications from welfare moms, at least a couple thousand by now after 30years.
We have rented to at least a hundred welfare families.
Much that I see about these people on Fox or here is nonsense. Every one of the applicants had a job, often two.
Every single one pays taxes, though not all pay income tax.
Since Clinton and the Dems changed the law, every able bodied person who gets cash payments must be employed.
GOP governors asked for permission to make exceptions to that because so much of their base is poor uneducated people in the South and there is a depression going on.

These folks don't seem to care which rich man in an expensive suit wins the election. They are looking for warm clothes to send the kids to school and something for dinner besides Mac and cheese.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

5. Be able to identify Pelosi, Boehner, Reid, Biden, Romney, etc. or their timely future counterparts.
6. Be able to construct one solid and accurate sentence, maybe even a paragraph, about most of the top 10 current important issues.
7. From a list of 10 or 20 widely discussed one-liner claims, be able to properly distinguish facts from BS talking points with a passing grade.

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

I recently saw a survey in which questions like
Who is Angela Merkel and which party controls the House of Reps?
Those who watch PBS did the best on this test.
Those who watch mainstream news came in second.
Those who watch no news at all came third.
Those who watch Fox came in last.
The GOP won't be including civics tests on any voter requirement soon.

uwindsurf · Joined: 18 Aug 2012 Posts: 968 Location: Classified

I am in favor of compulsory suffrage.

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

That is usual in Europe. Some countries require you to vote.

Most require you to take a civics exam to run for office. This would leave folks like Michelle Bachman and Cruz out of politics.

windoggi · Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 2743

pueno · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807

nw30 · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 2:59 pm Post subject:

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

There was a Pew survey that showed that 16% of Americans did not know who the President was.
When my wife took the civics test for US citizenship a couple years ago, we passed it around. Not one person we know even came close to passing it.

This could give some folks a doubt about everyone voting. It hasn't produced a good gov. in America in a long time.
There is little hope on the horizon.
US voters have put back the same losers in Congress without fail despite an approval rate under 15% for decades.
We reelect more than 80% of Congressmen who run.

techno900 · Joined: 28 Mar 2001 Posts: 4161

keycocker said: