Should some people NOT vote?

[DarrinS]

Our future may rest in the hands of a bunch of re s -- and most of them are probably voting for Obama.

[Bartleby]

The rest of the re s are starting threads about who should not be allowed to vote.

[Shastafarian]

The rest of the re s are starting threads about who should not be allowed to vote.

/thread

[DarrinS]

The rest of the re s are starting threads about who should not be allowed to vote.

At least I can recognize a photo of Biden.

[Shastafarian]

At least I can recognize a photo of Biden.

But you can't recognize there is already a thread on this?

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107035

[DarrinS]

[George Gervin's Afro]

Our future may rest in the hands of a bunch of re s -- and most of them are probably voting for Obama.

We survived bush jr.

[Bartleby]

We survived bush jr.

so far . . .

[Findog]

If conservatives want to play that game, how about the racist knuckledraggers that go to the McCain/Palin KKK rallies? Should they be allowed to vote?

[hater]

well we allowed Bush Sr.'s re ed son to be president. And I think we allow him to vote too. so...

[Trainwreck2100]

If conservatives want to play that game, how about the racist knuckledraggers that go to the McCain/Palin KKK rallies? Should they be allowed to vote?

its not McCain's fault Obama is black

[Hook Dem]

well we allowed Bush Sr.'s re ed son to be president. And I think we allow him to vote too. so...

You are proof that re ed posters are allowed to post also!

[Spurminator]

Stossel is a good journalist. Too many people assume that the perspective he takes in his pieces are actually his personal views.

The question of whether you should have some amount of political awareness to vote is one that is common around this time every four years (as evidenced by the multiple threads in this forum on the subject). Stossel gives fair time to both sides of the question and doesn't go to lengths to make the people he is interviewing look stupid... unlike some other popular do entarians.

[Extra Stout]

We could ins ute a literacy test or maybe a poll tax.

[Trainwreck2100]

We could ins ute a literacy test or maybe a poll tax.

That's genius, I can't believe it hasn't been tried before.

[PixelPusher]

People who don't know how selective editing in a JayWalking or John Stossel segment can be made to make any group look bad should not be allowed to vote.

[DarrinS]

People who don't know how selective editing in a JayWalking or John Stossel segment can be made to make any group look bad should not be allowed to vote.

People who can't write a coherent sentence should not be allowed to vote.

[Ocotillo]

Stossel lost me when he did a piece defending price gouging during disasters.

[Anti.Hero]

Judy > Ginsburg.

[Anti.Hero]

We could ins ute a literacy test or maybe a poll tax.

People have these conversations knowing full well nothing will be implemented.....again.

[Wild Cobra]

The only ones I am adamant of excluding from voting are those who are capable of providing for themselves, but rely on government help instead.

There are so many people we treat wrong when it comes to the voting process. I think criminals should be able to vote once they have been deemed to have served their time for example.

Those who cannot do higher level thinking shouldn't be excluded any more than people who do not seek the truth of candidates. Either are capable of being persuaded into voting other than what is really right. As long as they can decide for themselves, who am I to tell them they cannot vote. That is too large of a gray area for me to say deprive them from voting.

My trouble with the voting process is that we allow people to vote who have no skin in the process. Legislators are spending tax dollars. The people, in mass, who pay no taxes, are now asking for everything. That is wrong. I have very few fears in life. My biggest fear is that I will live to see the destruction of this nation by people voting more and more socialism until this nation self destructs.

[Trainwreck2100]

Stossel lost me when he did a piece defending price gouging during disasters.

From a purely capitalist point of view price gouging makes perfect sense.

[George Gervin's Afro]

The only ones I am adamant of excluding from voting are those who are capable of providing for themselves, but rely on government help instead.

There are so many people we treat wrong when it comes to the voting process. I think criminals should be able to vote once they have been deemed to have served their time for example.

Those who cannot do higher level thinking shouldn't be excluded any more than people who do not seek the truth of candidates. Either are capable of being persuaded into voting other than what is really right. As long as they can decide for themselves, who am I to tell them they cannot vote. That is too large of a gray area for me to say deprive them from voting.

My trouble with the voting process is that we allow people to vote who have no skin in the process. Legislators are spending tax dollars. The people, in mass, who pay no taxes, are now asking for everything. That is wrong. I have very few fears in life. My biggest fear is that I will live to see the destruction of this nation by people voting more and more socialism until this nation self destructs.

Here we go again..

So stupid people whould be excluded from voting. Got it.

With your line of reasoning " My trouble with the voting process is that we allow people to vote who have no skin in the process.", We should not allow for men to vote on abortion issues because they have no skin in the process?

[ratm1221]

This is dumb. The reason people are so uninformed, or should I say misinformed, is because of the media. Then they turn and make fun of people? These people would be more informed if the media would do their jobs.

It's sad when satire shows like The Daily Show, has more sustenance than your local media outlet. F the media.

[Wild Cobra]

Here we go again..

Yep, you don't know how to read, do you?

So stupid people whould be excluded from voting. Got it.

[B]The only ones I am adamant of excluding from voting are those who are capable of providing for themselves, but rely on government help instead

As long as they can decide for themselves, who am I to tell them they cannot vote. That is too large of a gray area for me to say deprive them from voting.

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With your line of reasoning " My trouble with the voting process is that we allow people to vote who have no skin in the process.", We should not allow for men to vote on abortion issues because they have no skin in the process?

Gerorge, do you know what "CONTEXT" is? I was refering to tax dollars and legislator, refering to who votes for them.

wiki: Context:

Verbal context refers to surrounding text or talk of an expression (word, sentence, conversational turn, speech act, etc.). The idea is that verbal context influences the way we understand the expression. Hence the norm not to cite people 'out of context'. Since much contemporary linguistics takes texts, discourses or conversations as its object of analysis, the modern study of 'verbal context' takes place in terms of the analysis of discourse structures and their mutual relationships, for instance the coherence relation between sentences.

My God I hate it when ignorant people go beyong the context of a statement and insert their own pejudices.