If you are unwilling to make your own circumstances better why should you have a voice in determining important issues that require educated intelligence!
To put this in languauge the "poor" will understand....just let the "right" people do your thinking for you! You don't deserve any input if you have no output!
2007-05-22 05:38:32 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm sorry.. but I don't think you are completely in touch with reality if you don't think that many people in poverty truly can't better their own situation... granted maybe some can.. but not most.
your logic is the type Hitler would have agreed with.. and while there is obviously no comparison to him as a person you should try to think of the slippery slope of your logic and see where it comes out at.
2007-05-22 05:56:54 · answer #1 · answered by pip 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Things like this have been tried before. In times past, only people who owned land (and thus were considered wealthy by that standard) could vote. This policy was abandoned a long time ago.
In a way, I understand your point. Hypothetically, if 2 people are living of the labors of 1, then those two people will always outvote the one person who is working. They will vote for more benefits for themselves and let the one productive person work harder and harder until they bleed him dry.
I'm not exactly sure what the solution is, though. To deny the two people their voice excludes them from the democratic process, and I don't necessarily think that is the wisest course.
2007-05-22 05:52:55 · answer #2 · answered by Pythagoras 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh my...so you're basically saying that if a person's income is low enough, we can discount their opinions entirely? A person is only worth what they can produce? Can you put a pricetage on humanity?
I've never met anyone who didn't want to better their circumstances...and if I had, I didn't hear them saying they wanted more of a say in anything.
There are also intelligent poor, by the way. I know you think poverty is a disease of the person's mind and mind alone, but that is simply not true.
I think you jsut lack life experience and that is what makes you think such hateful thoughts.
PS: Who are the "right" people?
2007-05-22 05:44:59 · answer #3 · answered by Waiting and Wishing 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course they have a voice. Some people call it a vote. There is also a difference between unwilling and unable. Just think if there were no poor people in the world, how would you feel superior? People that think like you should put your output, back in.
2007-05-22 05:53:03 · answer #4 · answered by Penny K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the South before the Civil rights movement, that kind of "logic" was used. Thelaw denied black people opportunity--in this "land of opportunity"--and then, because they were poor, denied them the vote or other voice in public affairs.
And one thing has not changed--only a sick racist would advocate such a thing. And anyone who does is an insult to everything America stands for.
2007-05-22 05:49:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your reasoning does not sound like you believe in equality. There are many poor people in the US. Some are there because of circumstances beyond their control. To imply that they do not have intelligence shows a lack of it on your part. What do you propose the income level should be in order to have a say?
2007-05-22 05:44:49 · answer #6 · answered by katydid 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-11 17:10:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow. I can't believe I read that right. I have my BA and my MA. I can't find work. Does that make me stupid? My BA is in poli sci so I think I would know how to vote. Jobs are not easy to come by and that shouldn't make me a bad person for it. Just because I don't have a lot of money doesn't mean that I am uneducated.
2007-05-22 05:44:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do.That kind of elitist thinking goes against everything a democracy is about.
People who are poor are still people,even people who are lazy and don't want to contribute anything to society still have all their civil rights,including the right to vote.
Anyone who believes in justice and equal protection under the law wouldn't want It any other way.
2007-05-22 06:23:42 · answer #9 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, this is the OTHER side of the coin from the LIB position: if you are WEALTHY, you shouldn't have a say in how your money is spent - LIBS will just take it all in taxes and redistribute it.
Or, in language hitlery would understand: you don't deserve input if you have too much input.
2007-05-22 05:48:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋