People on welfare should not be allowed to vote.?

Question

Huge conflict on interest! Don't you agree?

Gomany..... Not the same thing. Those people are contributing so they have a right to say where their money is going too.

Ken - not the same thing! They arent the decision makers.

Answer 1

I do agree that people on welfare should not be allowed to vote.

Answer 2

You would feel different if you needed to get welfare next week. But I guess i can see what you are trying to say. If you are not contributing to pay for the country, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. But....
But welfare was started after the great depression, when so many people lost their jobs, homes & had no food. Would it have been right to deny them the chance to vote, just because they were down on their luck for a while??

I thought being on welfare was only a temporary thing, that your only allowed for a certain amount of time.

Answer 3

As an African American who was at one time not allowed to vote,,,,,read..... write...because it was deemed that we were more animal than human... oh and let us not forget that we were not allowed to get paid for our labor at one time,,,,,my brother you need to read up on how profitable the poor are... the poor are a billion dollar business world wide....thats like saying that all minimum wage earners should not have the right to vote minimum wage earners earn less than some people on welfare in states like California... no it is not a huge conflict of interest... we still have people like you that don't t think before they speak... do some research and free your mind brother.... the president of the united states gets the largest welfare payout in the country and food stamps his food is free! we pay for it... I would rather help some one that need it than some rich oil family like the one we have in office. now why don't we not pay our presidents that are already so rich that the little 3000 - 400 thousand that we the take payer pay out to the rich,,, which is what we do for too many wealth ... the should not be allowed to vote because they don't need any thing they have all the money and we keep giving to the rich so the poor can get even poorer.???
according to the bible the poor you will always have with you and that we are our brothers keepers.... don't get me wrong there are some of our brothers that need a kick in the but from time to time but hey is that not how it is with a family?

Answer 4

Honestly, does it really matter if they vote or not? The electorial college puts into office whoever they want anyways, thats why a majority of the population does not vote. Ok, so thats the reason Ive heard the most on why people dont vote.

Based on your question, now that the government is looking at revising a law that could put me out of work, should I not be able to vote due to a conflict of interests? Or can I place a vote for whoever is willing to keep me working at something I enjoy doing?

Answer 5

Conflict? No, not unless me voting for someone who's policies would financially benefit me is a conflict of interest in which case I think we're all in trouble. They should vote, but here's the logical challenge that occurs.

most people on welfare almost never get off of it, are relegated to government housing surrounded by people in similair situations, vote for those in favor of the programs they are now dependant on.

So here's a question, what political party is for the continuing of (not improving or changing) the current welfare system.............hmmmm?

Answer 6

My mother and father worked hard for 30 years, they raised a family and got all of their children good educations. Then they both lost their jobs at the same time and could not find any employment and guess what--they had to go on welfare! Does this mean that they cannot vote anymore???

Answer 7

I think sticking to the program of not allowing felons to vote is the better alternative.

The majority of welfare recipients do not vote anyway (not a huge problem for the United States).

Answer 8

How is recieving goverment benifits a conflict of intrest?? Your basing that on?? the fact that whomever they vote for is going to help provide them with better benifits?? Right?? ( trying to understand your train of thought here) If that's true then every person that votes has conflict of intrest. We all vote based on what we feel the canidate is going to do for us personally. Retired ppl are most concerned with medicare, millitary families are most concerened with forgein affairs and military benifits, business ppl are most concerned with economic issues.. ect ect ect. The most conflicted ppl are politicians themselves and lobbyist. Should they not vote.

Answer 9

Our constitution does not guarantee the right to vote based on the ability to contribute. If you deny people on welfare then who else would you dent? Retired people? People collected social security? People who are disabled because of a work place injury?

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Answer 10

By that reasoning, nobody who benefits in any way from a government service or program should be allowed to vote, which rules out...oh, everyone, basically. Except maybe that guy in the tent in Oregon.

Answer 11

Sound fair, provided that goverment contractors won't be allowed to vote either. Anyone who makes any money off the government, hows that? Have fun explaining to the troops why you just disenfranchised them.