oldsaw wrote: It sure looked like a ginned-up and heavily edited video made to prove a point - and maybe put some cash in someone's pockets.
Sometimes I work near where a local news channel does man on the street interviews. On tv it always looks like we are a country full of idiots. Some days they will spend an hour finding people to give them the answers they want for a three minute segment.
I spent all of history class staring at the redhead that sat in front of me. I didn't learn crap!
poopshovel wrote: If your 20-something year old kid doesn't know what CENTURY WWII occurred in, he doesn't need to be going to college on my dime, he needs to be sucking my E36 M3 out of my septic tank, and sure as E36 M3 shouldn't have the "right" to vote.
This is why we love poopshovel.
I alternate between being horrified by the stuff that Poop says, and wanting to elect him president. Right now, I'm planning a write in campaign to get him on the ballot.....
Poop, you have a PM
poopshovel wrote: Sorry. Thread title should've read "Jesus tapdancing christ; you shiny happy people will argue about ANYTHING."
JoeyM wrote:poopshovel wrote: If your 20-something year old kid doesn't know what CENTURY WWII occurred in, he doesn't need to be going to college on my dime, he needs to be sucking my E36 M3 out of my septic tank, and sure as E36 M3 shouldn't have the "right" to vote.This is why we love poopshovel. I alternate between being horrified by the stuff that Poop says, and wanting to elect him president. Right now, I'm planning a write in campaign to get him on the ballot..... Poop, you have a PM
Im in the same boat...I also think we should base your right to vote on your ability to contribute to society...as in: "wellfare? no vote for you"
Class warfare much?
moparman76_69 wrote: So what happens to Godwin's Law if the thread is about Hitler's actions?
4cylndrfury wrote:JoeyM wrote:Im in the same boat...I also think we should base your right to vote on your ability to contribute to society...as in: "wellfare? no vote for you"poopshovel wrote: If your 20-something year old kid doesn't know what CENTURY WWII occurred in, he doesn't need to be going to college on my dime, he needs to be sucking my E36 M3 out of my septic tank, and sure as E36 M3 shouldn't have the "right" to vote.This is why we love poopshovel. I alternate between being horrified by the stuff that Poop says, and wanting to elect him president. Right now, I'm planning a write in campaign to get him on the ballot..... Poop, you have a PM
Let's take the insanity a step further.
If you don't own a home, or if you own too many cars (obviously you make poor decisions regarding your resources, so how can you be trusted to vote)......then you shouldn't be allowed to vote either.
berkeley it. Nobody gets to vote. Y'all done ruined it. New leaders will haev to kill their replacement to take their seat.... this can only be done every 4 years though.
I read the title and I knew I had no business in this thread. That is all! 
1988RedT2 wrote: I read the title and I knew I had no business in this thread. That is all!
Looks around. Slowly walks out with T2.
Let's not talk about how little ww2 vets might have known or not known about the civil war. I am certain that even if those folks didn't know much about the civil war their historical perspective isn't as short sighted as many these days.
So grimly, it seems given that we are approaching yet another nasty fight. At least from where I am sitting.
In reply to novaderrik:
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
banana cream pie in a bowl, motherberkeleyer!
lolerskates...no, not class warfare. But look at it this way: the government controls the laws and their administration as they pertain to American society. Contribute to society, and you get a say in its governance. Suckle at societies teet, and you get what we give you.
4cylndrfury wrote: lolerskates...no, not class warfare. But look at it this way: the government controls the laws and their administration as they pertain to American society. Contribute to society, and you get a say in its governance. Suckle at societies teet, and you get what we give you.
Let's extend it up to the lower-class as well.
If you don't pay as much in taxes as my and I do, why you should you get to vote at all?
(See how stupid this sounds)
z31maniac wrote: Let's take the insanity a step further. If you don't own a home...
Ummm- that's exactly the way it was originally. Only landowners could vote.
In reply to z31maniac:
The founding fathers didn't think it sounded stupid.
4cylndrfury wrote: ....Contribute to society, and you get a say in its governance. Suckle at societies teet, and you get what we give you.
Yup, that stupid Constitution gettin' in the way again!
(BTW - are voting rights in the Constitution?)
Hey... don't worry, someone with a lot of money has way more political influence then someone without, so I am sure it balances out a bit.
1988RedT2 wrote: In reply to 4cylndrfury: News flash! Teat-sucklers can vote in this country, and apparently are!
Most of the people who use government social programs don't believe that they are doing so.
http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/keep-your-government-hands-off-my-government-programs/
or, if you would prefer to read the original source
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7874752&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S1537592710002045
http://government.arts.cornell.edu/assets/faculty/docs/mettler/submergedstat_mettler.pdf
Mmmmmm. Teats.
JoeyM wrote: Most of the people who use government social programs don't believe that they are doing so.
I don't know why you chose to fabricate a non-existent post and attribute it to me. Please see my post above stating my lack of involvement in this thread!
Follows T2 back in. Looks around. Walks back out.
1988RedT2 wrote: I don't know why you chose to fabricate a non-existent post and attribute it to me. Please see my post above stating my lack of involvement in this thread!
Oh yeah!
Well that chart doesn't even mention Public Schooling!!!
What do you have to say about that mister man?!?!
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