Jimmy Carter was such an abominable president we got Ronald Reagan, tax cuts, a booming economy and the destruction of the Soviet Union.
Two years of Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress got us the first Republican Congress in half a century, followed by tax cuts, welfare reform and a booming economy –- all of which Clinton now claims credit for.
Obama's disastrous presidency has already produced Republican senators from Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Illinois; New Jersey's wonder-governor Chris Christie; and the largest House majority for Republicans since 1946.
We deserve more. Clinton only threatened to wreck the health care system; Obama actually did it. We must repeal the 26th Amendment.
Adopted in 1971 at the tail end of the Worst Generation's anti-war protests, the argument for allowing children to vote was that 18-year-olds could drink and be conscripted into the military, so they ought to be allowed to vote.
But 18-year-olds aren't allowed to drink anymore. We no longer have a draft. In fact, while repealing the 26th Amendment, we ought to add a separate right to vote for members of the military, irrespective of age.
As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote." The new motto is: "Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote."
Eighteen- to 26-year-olds don't have property, spouses, children or massive tax bills. Most of them don't even have jobs because the president they felt so good about themselves for supporting wrecked the economy.
The meager tax young people paid for vehicle licensing fees on their cars threw them into such a blind rage that in 2003 they uncharacteristically voted to recall the Democratic governor of California, Gray Davis. Wait until they start making real money and realize they share a joint-checking account arrangement with the government! Literally wait. Then we'll let them vote.
Having absolutely no idea what makes their precious cars run, by the way, young voters are the most likely to oppose offshore drilling.
How about 10-year-olds? Why not give them the vote?
Then we'd have politicians wooing voters with offers of free Justin Bieber tickets instead of offers of a "sustainable planet" or whatever hokum the youth have swallowed hook, line and sinker from their teachers, pop culture idols and other authority figures. (Along with their approved-by-the-authorities "Question Authority" bumper stickers.)
Like 18-year-olds, the 10-year-olds would be sublimely unaware that they're the ones who will be footing the bill for all these "free" goodies, paying and paying until they die of old age.
Brain research in the last five years at Dartmouth and elsewhere has shown that human brains are not fully developed until age 25 and are particularly deficient in their frontal lobes, which control decision-making, rational thinking, judgment, the ability to plan ahead and to resist impulses.
Unfortunately, we didn't know that in 1971. Those of you who have made it to age 26 without dying in a stupid drinking game -- and I think congratulations are in order, by the way -- understand how insane it is to allow young people to vote.
It would almost be tolerable if everyone under the age of 30 just admitted they voted for Obama because someone said to them, "C'mon, it's really cool! Everyone's doing it!"
We trusted them, and now we know it was a mistake.
True, Reagan tied with Carter for the youth vote in 1980 and stole younger voters from Mondale in 1984, but other than that, young voters have consistently embarrassed themselves. Of course, back when Reagan was running for president, young voters consisted of the one slice of the population completely uninfected by the Worst Generation. Today's youth are the infantilized, pampered, bicycle-helmeted children of the Worst Generation.
They foisted this jug-eared, European socialist on us and now they must be punished. Voters aged 18 to 29 years old comprised nearly a fifth of the voting population in 2008 and they voted overwhelmingly for Obama, 66 percent to 31 percent.
And it only took 12 to 14 years of North Korean-style brainwashing to make them do it! At least their teachers haven't brainwashed them into burning books or ratting out their parents to the Stasi yet. (On the bright side, before teaching them book-burning, their professors would be forced to teach them what a book is.)
It would make more sense to give public school teachers and college professors 20 votes apiece than to allow their impressionable students to vote.
The Re-Education Camp Effect can be seen in how these slackers living at home on their parents' health insurance voted in the middle of the Republican tidal wave this year. Youths aged 18-29 voted for the Democrats by 16 points. But the kids aged 18-24 -- having just received an A in Professor Ward Churchill's college class on American Oppression -- voted for the Democrats by a whopping 19 points.
Young people voted for Obama as a fashion statement. One daughter of a friend of a friend of mine spent her whole college summer in 2008 working at a restaurant and then, with teary eyes, sent everything she made to the Obama campaign.
Luckily, she doesn't have to worry about paying for tuition, rent or food. Or property taxes, electric bills, plumbers and electricians. After being exploited by the left, she'll end up paying for it for the rest of her life, with interest.
Liberals fight tooth-and-nail to create an electorate disposed to vote Democratic by, for example, demanding that felons and illegal aliens be given the vote. But it's at least possible that illegal aliens and criminals pay taxes or have fully functioning frontal lobes.
Republicans ought to fight for their own electorate, which at a minimum ought to mean voters with fully functioning brains and the possibility of a tax bill. Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote.
Jimmy Carter was such an abominable president we got Ronald Reagan, tax cuts, a booming economy and the destruction of the Soviet Union.
Two years of Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress got us the first Republican Congress in half a century, followed by tax cuts, welfare reform and a booming economy –- all of which Clinton now claims credit for.
Obama's disastrous presidency has already produced Republican senators from Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Illinois; New Jersey's wonder-governor Chris Christie; and the largest House majority for Republicans since 1946.
We deserve more. Clinton only threatened to wreck the health care system; Obama actually did it. We must repeal the 26th Amendment.
Adopted in 1971 at the tail end of the Worst Generation's anti-war protests, the argument for allowing children to vote was that 18-year-olds could drink and be conscripted into the military, so they ought to be allowed to vote.
But 18-year-olds aren't allowed to drink anymore. We no longer have a draft. In fact, while repealing the 26th Amendment, we ought to add a separate right to vote for members of the military, irrespective of age.
As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote." The new motto is: "Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote."
Eighteen- to 26-year-olds don't have property, spouses, children or massive tax bills. Most of them don't even have jobs because the president they felt so good about themselves for supporting wrecked the economy.
The meager tax young people paid for vehicle licensing fees on their cars threw them into such a blind rage that in 2003 they uncharacteristically voted to recall the Democratic governor of California, Gray Davis. Wait until they start making real money and realize they share a joint-checking account arrangement with the government! Literally wait. Then we'll let them vote.
Having absolutely no idea what makes their precious cars run, by the way, young voters are the most likely to oppose offshore drilling.
How about 10-year-olds? Why not give them the vote?
Then we'd have politicians wooing voters with offers of free Justin Bieber tickets instead of offers of a "sustainable planet" or whatever hokum the youth have swallowed hook, line and sinker from their teachers, pop culture idols and other authority figures. (Along with their approved-by-the-authorities "Question Authority" bumper stickers.)
Like 18-year-olds, the 10-year-olds would be sublimely unaware that they're the ones who will be footing the bill for all these "free" goodies, paying and paying until they die of old age.
Brain research in the last five years at Dartmouth and elsewhere has shown that human brains are not fully developed until age 25 and are particularly deficient in their frontal lobes, which control decision-making, rational thinking, judgment, the ability to plan ahead and to resist impulses.
Unfortunately, we didn't know that in 1971. Those of you who have made it to age 26 without dying in a stupid drinking game -- and I think congratulations are in order, by the way -- understand how insane it is to allow young people to vote.
It would almost be tolerable if everyone under the age of 30 just admitted they voted for Obama because someone said to them, "C'mon, it's really cool! Everyone's doing it!"
We trusted them, and now we know it was a mistake.
True, Reagan tied with Carter for the youth vote in 1980 and stole younger voters from Mondale in 1984, but other than that, young voters have consistently embarrassed themselves. Of course, back when Reagan was running for president, young voters consisted of the one slice of the population completely uninfected by the Worst Generation. Today's youth are the infantilized, pampered, bicycle-helmeted children of the Worst Generation.
They foisted this jug-eared, European socialist on us and now they must be punished. Voters aged 18 to 29 years old comprised nearly a fifth of the voting population in 2008 and they voted overwhelmingly for Obama, 66 percent to 31 percent.
And it only took 12 to 14 years of North Korean-style brainwashing to make them do it! At least their teachers haven't brainwashed them into burning books or ratting out their parents to the Stasi yet. (On the bright side, before teaching them book-burning, their professors would be forced to teach them what a book is.)
It would make more sense to give public school teachers and college professors 20 votes apiece than to allow their impressionable students to vote.
The Re-Education Camp Effect can be seen in how these slackers living at home on their parents' health insurance voted in the middle of the Republican tidal wave this year. Youths aged 18-29 voted for the Democrats by 16 points. But the kids aged 18-24 -- having just received an A in Professor Ward Churchill's college class on American Oppression -- voted for the Democrats by a whopping 19 points.
Young people voted for Obama as a fashion statement. One daughter of a friend of a friend of mine spent her whole college summer in 2008 working at a restaurant and then, with teary eyes, sent everything she made to the Obama campaign.
Luckily, she doesn't have to worry about paying for tuition, rent or food. Or property taxes, electric bills, plumbers and electricians. After being exploited by the left, she'll end up paying for it for the rest of her life, with interest.
Liberals fight tooth-and-nail to create an electorate disposed to vote Democratic by, for example, demanding that felons and illegal aliens be given the vote. But it's at least possible that illegal aliens and criminals pay taxes or have fully functioning frontal lobes.
Republicans ought to fight for their own electorate, which at a minimum ought to mean voters with fully functioning brains and the possibility of a tax bill. Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote.
As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote." The new motto is: "Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote."
As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote." The new motto is: "Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote."
Eighteen- to 26-year-olds don't have property, spouses, children or massive tax bills. Most of them don't even have jobs because the president they felt so good about themselves for supporting wrecked the economy.
Eighteen- to 26-year-olds don't have property, spouses, children or massive tax bills. Most of them don't even have jobs because the president they felt so good about themselves for supporting wrecked the economy.
Eighteen- to 26-year-olds don't have property, spouses, children or massive tax bills. Most of them don't even have jobs because the president they felt so good about themselves for supporting wrecked the economy.
Eighteen- to 26-year-olds don't have property, spouses, children or massive tax bills. Most of them don't even have jobs because the president they felt so good about themselves for supporting wrecked the economy.
Young people voted for Obama as a fashion statement. One daughter of a friend of a friend of mine spent her whole college summer in 2008 working at a restaurant and then, with teary eyes, sent everything she made to the Obama campaign.
Young people voted for Obama as a fashion statement. One daughter of a friend of a friend of mine spent her whole college summer in 2008 working at a restaurant and then, with teary eyes, sent everything she made to the Obama campaign.
Young people voted for Obama as a fashion statement. One daughter of a friend of a friend of mine spent her whole college summer in 2008 working at a restaurant and then, with teary eyes, sent everything she made to the Obama campaign.
You may find this stuff funny, but I saw it first hand. College kids who had never voted or bothered to care in their entire lives... smoking weed... listening to Nas songs about Obama becoming our first black president... kids with picket signs preaching Obama to all...
He had the brainwashed and eating out of his hands
$5 trillion dollars in debt later... here we are...
Young people voted for Obama as a fashion statement. One daughter of a friend of a friend of mine spent her whole college summer in 2008 working at a restaurant and then, with teary eyes, sent everything she made to the Obama campaign.
You may find this stuff funny, but I saw it first hand. College kids who had never voted or bothered to care in their entire lives... smoking weed... listening to Nas songs about Obama becoming our first black president... kids with picket signs preaching Obama to all...
He had the brainwashed and eating out of his hands
$5 trillion dollars in debt later... here we are...
You may find this stuff funny, but I saw it first hand. College kids who had never voted or bothered to care in their entire lives... smoking weed... listening to Nas songs about Obama becoming our first black president... kids with picket signs preaching Obama to all...
He had the brainwashed and eating out of his hands
$5 trillion dollars in debt later... here we are...
It really was remarkable... I can understand the uneducated and brain dead voting for change back then, but, who could possibly feel he is doing a good job at this point?
You may find this stuff funny, but I saw it first hand. College kids who had never voted or bothered to care in their entire lives... smoking weed... listening to Nas songs about Obama becoming our first black president... kids with picket signs preaching Obama to all...
He had the brainwashed and eating out of his hands
$5 trillion dollars in debt later... here we are...
It really was remarkable... I can understand the uneducated and brain dead voting for change back then, but, who could possibly feel he is doing a good job at this point?
The Founding Fathers knew that once non-contributing members of society began voting, they would vote for free handouts...they wanted to make sure, that the people who desided how a community was run ..had to have a stake in the community ...
The Founding Fathers knew that once non-contributing members of society began voting, they would vote for free handouts...they wanted to make sure, that the people who desided how a community was run ..had to have a stake in the community ...
The Founding Fathers knew that once non-contributing members of society began voting, they would vote for free handouts...they wanted to make sure, that the people who decided how a community was run ..had to have a stake in the community ...
||goodpost.gif' border=0> That is why they fled Europe, to enjoy freedom. How uneducated and uninformed would one have to be to feel the system in Europe is better?
The Founding Fathers knew that once non-contributing members of society began voting, they would vote for free handouts...they wanted to make sure, that the people who decided how a community was run ..had to have a stake in the community ...
||goodpost.gif' border=0> That is why they fled Europe, to enjoy freedom. How uneducated and uninformed would one have to be to feel the system in Europe is better?
The hardest thing for me to understand is WHY? Because he was black and they wanted to see history? Because he said he was going to end the war? Because he liked sports? Because he smoke cigarettes, and they thought he would legalize weed?
It is really a quandary... zombies parading around everywhere drooling and moaning O-BAMA YES WE CAN... funny how you don't hear from them anymore... where did they all go? Where were they all during midterm elections?
The hardest thing for me to understand is WHY? Because he was black and they wanted to see history? Because he said he was going to end the war? Because he liked sports? Because he smoke cigarettes, and they thought he would legalize weed?
It is really a quandary... zombies parading around everywhere drooling and moaning O-BAMA YES WE CAN... funny how you don't hear from them anymore... where did they all go? Where were they all during midterm elections?
The hardest thing for me to understand is WHY? Because he was black and they wanted to see history? Because he said he was going to end the war? Because he liked sports? Because he smoke cigarettes, and they thought he would legalize weed?
It is really a quandary... zombies parading around everywhere drooling and moaning O-BAMA YES WE CAN... funny how you don't hear from them anymore... where did they all go? Where were they all during midterm elections?
No It is because they are lazy and don't bother doing research They believed the: lame stream media Their teachers/professors what they saw on SNL
they had no life experiences, they like the idea of somebody else taking care of them, because that is what mommy and daddy did for them for 18+ years
The hardest thing for me to understand is WHY? Because he was black and they wanted to see history? Because he said he was going to end the war? Because he liked sports? Because he smoke cigarettes, and they thought he would legalize weed?
It is really a quandary... zombies parading around everywhere drooling and moaning O-BAMA YES WE CAN... funny how you don't hear from them anymore... where did they all go? Where were they all during midterm elections?
No It is because they are lazy and don't bother doing research They believed the: lame stream media Their teachers/professors what they saw on SNL
they had no life experiences, they like the idea of somebody else taking care of them, because that is what mommy and daddy did for them for 18+ years
I live close to the SF Bay Area and can't tell you guys how many Priuses I saw with Obama bumper stickers then. It was like Obama was the second coming of Christ himself. Of course he's much closer to being the False Messiah/ Anti-Christ, if anything.
Of course, that number is incredibly lot less these days. And I always get a good chuckle out of those vehicles that still cling onto that faded bumper sticker these days when I drive through that part of the state.
I live close to the SF Bay Area and can't tell you guys how many Priuses I saw with Obama bumper stickers then. It was like Obama was the second coming of Christ himself. Of course he's much closer to being the False Messiah/ Anti-Christ, if anything.
Of course, that number is incredibly lot less these days. And I always get a good chuckle out of those vehicles that still cling onto that faded bumper sticker these days when I drive through that part of the state.
I live close to the SF Bay Area and can't tell you guys how many Priuses I saw with Obama bumper stickers then. It was like Obama was the second coming of Christ himself. Of course he's much closer to being the False Messiah/ Anti-Christ, if anything.
Of course, that number is incredibly lot less these days. And I always get a good chuckle out of those vehicles that still cling onto that faded bumper sticker these days when I drive through that part of the state.
I live close to the SF Bay Area and can't tell you guys how many Priuses I saw with Obama bumper stickers then. It was like Obama was the second coming of Christ himself. Of course he's much closer to being the False Messiah/ Anti-Christ, if anything.
Of course, that number is incredibly lot less these days. And I always get a good chuckle out of those vehicles that still cling onto that faded bumper sticker these days when I drive through that part of the state.
The old motto of "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote" still applies today. 18 year old men and women enroll in the military still, and are considered of age to make that decision. Therefore, as the saying says, as they are "old enough to fight," they are "old enough to vote."
The old motto of "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote" still applies today. 18 year old men and women enroll in the military still, and are considered of age to make that decision. Therefore, as the saying says, as they are "old enough to fight," they are "old enough to vote."
The old motto of "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote" still applies today. 18 year old men and women enroll in the military still, and are considered of age to make that decision. Therefore, as the saying says, as they are "old enough to fight," they are "old enough to vote."
Or am I missing something here....
So give those in uniform a vote, but not anyone who has turned the magic age of 18.
The old motto of "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote" still applies today. 18 year old men and women enroll in the military still, and are considered of age to make that decision. Therefore, as the saying says, as they are "old enough to fight," they are "old enough to vote."
Or am I missing something here....
So give those in uniform a vote, but not anyone who has turned the magic age of 18.
While I don't think it is always a great thing that 18 year olds have the right to vote, but I do think they do and should have that right. They are adults by almost any measure in our society.
I will change the argument. I think voting should be relegated to the TAXPAYERS of our government. If you have a net income tax expense, you get to vote. If you pay property taxes, you get to vote locally. If you are on the fed dole (welfare, food stamps) no vote.
While I don't think it is always a great thing that 18 year olds have the right to vote, but I do think they do and should have that right. They are adults by almost any measure in our society.
I will change the argument. I think voting should be relegated to the TAXPAYERS of our government. If you have a net income tax expense, you get to vote. If you pay property taxes, you get to vote locally. If you are on the fed dole (welfare, food stamps) no vote.
So give those in uniform a vote, but not anyone who has turned the magic age of 18.
When has military enlistment ever been a pre-requisite of the right to vote?
So just because an overwhelming amount of young people showed up to vote for Obama, and he has yet to live up to the hype, young people should be revoked their right to vote? What about the millions of other Americans who voted for Obama?
GWB was, IMO, just as bad, if not worse than Pres. Obama, and a lot of people share that opinion. So does that mean that everyone who voted for GWB should also be revoked the right to vote?
So give those in uniform a vote, but not anyone who has turned the magic age of 18.
When has military enlistment ever been a pre-requisite of the right to vote?
So just because an overwhelming amount of young people showed up to vote for Obama, and he has yet to live up to the hype, young people should be revoked their right to vote? What about the millions of other Americans who voted for Obama?
GWB was, IMO, just as bad, if not worse than Pres. Obama, and a lot of people share that opinion. So does that mean that everyone who voted for GWB should also be revoked the right to vote?
Young people voted for Obama as a fashion statement. One daughter of a friend of a friend of mine spent her whole college summer in 2008 working at a restaurant and then, with teary eyes, sent everything she made to the Obama campaign.
One of my gf's friends is a huge libtard. In 08 it was always "Obama this" and "Obama that." Finally I asked her why she was such a huge supporter of Obama. Her exact response was "um, he is, um, like, um, against war and, um, stuff."
Young people voted for Obama as a fashion statement. One daughter of a friend of a friend of mine spent her whole college summer in 2008 working at a restaurant and then, with teary eyes, sent everything she made to the Obama campaign.
One of my gf's friends is a huge libtard. In 08 it was always "Obama this" and "Obama that." Finally I asked her why she was such a huge supporter of Obama. Her exact response was "um, he is, um, like, um, against war and, um, stuff."
i dont think people should vote until they have a negative liability to the federal government. if you dont pay taxes, you really should have no say in how things are run or how money is spent
what did biden call it? "skin in the game"
50% of the population is profitable with their relationship with the federal government...of course they will vote for Santa Claus provides he keeps those reindeer mushing
there should also be a basic civics exam taken every two years
i dont think people should vote until they have a negative liability to the federal government. if you dont pay taxes, you really should have no say in how things are run or how money is spent
what did biden call it? "skin in the game"
50% of the population is profitable with their relationship with the federal government...of course they will vote for Santa Claus provides he keeps those reindeer mushing
there should also be a basic civics exam taken every two years
This is dumb. If the legal system distinguishes the age of adulthood at age 18, then that's what age should be set for voting -- another adult responsibility.
This is dumb. If the legal system distinguishes the age of adulthood at age 18, then that's what age should be set for voting -- another adult responsibility.
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