Should you lose the right to vote if your are on public assistance?

Question

Should the moochs of society get to vote themselves a raise?

Answer 1

I agree with you!
If someone CAN work and doesn't, he/she should be banned from voting.
They are already a charge to society, why would you let them get more involved?

Answer 2

Our laws guarantee us all the same freedoms unless we commit a crime and have some of our privileges taken away. People who are on public assistance have commited no crimes; if they have in order to get the help, it will be eventually found out and they too will have a felony. Being poor should not be held against one. I hope our middle and upper classes are not snubbing their noses at people who are mostly doing the best they can. There's people in middle and upper classes who are committing sins to stay in their "comfortable" class, and in my opinion, they should be found out and also get a felony. Honesty is the best way to live, but to some, they have no self esteem and must illegally be middle or upper class. I know many low class people who are absolutely the best in the world and they have great self-esteem; they are honest and many have limitations due to many reasons. I never judge a person on what class they are in. I don't care, but I do care how people treat me. There will always be those with limitations whether mentally, physically, or some other unfair thing. Our children who grew up in the lower class will probably stay there because they learn from their role models; however there will be a percentage of them who hustle and want more.

Answer 3

You didn't define what you meant by 'public assistance'.

Most prior answers, perhaps, indicate the meaning to encompass the down and out, the dregs of society, the losers, the misfits, and such like. That may be so, I suppose...

However, there is a large bunch of relatively normal, hard-working people on public assistance all the time. They're called politicians, and they draw their money down from people like us who pay taxes. Now then -- they pay taxes too, but they make sure they pay as little as possible from their overly inflated salaries paid out from public money.

There's another bunch also: they're called bureaucrats, and they also help to ruin... er, run the country and they're often accused of wasting public money also.

Shall we deny those bunches of bananas the right to vote, also?

Answer 4

Absolutely not!! If the government start trying to limit groups of people from voting because they are on public aid, then the next thing will be because of their race or b/c they can't speak English well, or only the rich can vote and so on and so forth. We are all human beings and should be treated fairly and equally. They are already limiting people who have felonies from voting although they have served time and have moved on in their lives. The US is supposedly based on democracy and we will no longer be democratic if we start to pick and choose who can/cannot vote.

Answer 5

Um, this is America, the mooches have the right to vote for the democrats that support their mooching.

Answer 6

Elections are about electing a person to represent them inside the Parliament, where they "housekeep" the country. As incorrect as the previous statement may be, it is still the fundamentle reason, and structure, of our electing society, so if they were to be "banned" from elections, you would be violating their fundamentle rights to be properly represented in Parliament.

Answer 7

Yes! Welfare recipients should not be allowed to vote...especially those who have no intention of ever getting off public assistance.

Answer 8

Should you lose the right to live because you're a Down's Syndrome imbecile??! Pull your head out of your rectal canal and take a last breath of Republican air before November's elections, my criminally stupid friend!!!

Answer 9

Only if you are also on father/mother assistance?

Answer 10

Good heavens, no!

It's hard to imagine a more fundamentally un-American idea.