Monday, October 31, 2011
Who Should Vote?
Before I get into this issue, I would first like you to watch the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8 Now that's done, I will try and touch on my opinions of who should vote. This is a really tough topic for me because I feel strongly that people who vote and are making a decision on who should run our country should be educated enough to make a wise decision. That being said my ideologies on voting are not very rational and would never actually be the set ways that we vote, unfortunately. So here goes nothing! First, I think that there should be a mandated test voters must take to become registered voters. If you think about it, if you have some whoha who cannot make logical decisions in their own life, why do we want them making decisions for our country. The test would not be something like the SAT obviously, but it would be something more like the GED. I understand that would never work so maybe we could just make it a law that to vote you must have graduated from high-school or have passed the GED. Secondly, the voter must not collect benefits from the government due to pure laziness. This is what gets under my skin the most. To collect welfare and benefits (not including legal disability) such as unemployment there must be documentation that these people qualify. So for unemployment, I know in Florida, they just started a system in which if you are receiving unemployment then you must provide documentation weekly that you are applying for jobs. The only way a person can be a registered voter ( in my system) and not have passed high-school or the GED test, is if they are currently employed or have been employed recently and are paying taxes. For welfare, that in itself is another story. What we need to do is implement a system that prohibits the families who keep spitting out kids to collect more welfare while they are sitting on their asses to not be able to vote. Obviously they have a mindset that they deserve something from the government while other people are out working and paying taxes to support these leaches. I really could go on for days about who should be allowed to vote, but seeing how my views are "radical" and would never be implemented into the system, I am going to end there.
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