Tedster-you SOUND like Buchanan!

[Reeder]

Well…

limiting voters to only property holders

It worked for the founding fathers.

[minty_green]

So did slaves.

[Mockingbird]

psssst I think his name is really Chillingworth.

[Alessan]

*Originally posted by Reeder *

It worked for the founding fathers. **

Who cares about the founding fathers? They’re dead.

[Miller]

Maybe he’s worried about the prospect of:
Taxpayers having ever increasing amounts of their wealth taken from them by confiscatory taxes enacted by legislators who are influenced more and more by the “non-contributors” in society. The day the “wanters” outnumber the “havers” is when the trouble really starts. Or

The imminent collapse of medicare and social security; a ponzi-scheme that will fall under its’ own weight as longer-living recipients demand more and more benefits while resisting any reform. Or

The continuing flow of illegal immigrants, unlawfully arriving in our country and receiving similar “safety net” benefits as citizens. Or

A nation that continues to transform into a balkanized mosaic as opposed to a melting pot with similar values and a common language.

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Disclaimer: I carefully refrained from interjecting any of my own opinions.

Riiiiight.

[TwistofFate]

Ted, that is the singlemost stupid thing I have ever seen you post, and coming from you, that says something.

Just because someone recieves welfare, dosent mean their political views are any less valid or valued in a democracy. To suggest that a persons wealth should be a decider in how their country is run?

Or perhaps you would like to change the rules for citizenship?

[Typo_Negative]

I think voting should be required of all eligible citizens, and those that don’t should be tarred and feathered.

[iampunha]

*Originally posted by Tedster *
Guin, I understand there are some excellent medications available to help smooth out the ‘rough spots’; perhaps if you ask the staff nicely they might oblige. One thing though, do they know you are on the internet unsupervised?? Be careful, I wouldn’t want your privileges to be taken away or anything. I wish you luck, **

Translation:

I am a jackass who has repeatedly made posts easily classifiable as asinine, unnecessary and frankly guilty of recto-cranial inversion. I am unable to back up my remarks with anything intelligent, so instead I will attack the psychological well-being of the OPer, and in doing so lose any friend I had on this MB, because as we all know you don’t need credibility to be credible.