Should these people be allowed to vote

Let's see, that was back when women were considered property and not smart enough to vote...right?

Also, that was back in the day when the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.

Yep, that's where we need to regress to....NOT!

 

Are you actually saying that we men should unlock the chain that has you attached to the kitchen sink on election day? :laugh:

 

Nah. They make duplicate keys at Ace Hardware. :laugh:

We've come a long way, baby... :godisgood:

On a serious note, when my mother was in a nursing home, people from both sides of the political arena visited the nursing home to get votes on election day. Some of the residents knew what they were doing...some did not. Their names still ended up at the bottom of a ballot.

I took my mother to the polls in her wheelchair. And even though she could not see well enough to mark the ballot, and was of a different political persuasion than me, I voted her ballot the way she wanted.

There were a lot of 'voters' at the nursing home that did not have the advantage of deciding for themselves who they wanted to elect.

IMHO, no residents should be able to vote at the nursing homes unless the next of kin is present to safeguard their vote.

I guess that's not as bad as getting votes from a cemetery though...

 

Your right, I didn't say it right. I should have said, that I'd have rather they not have allowed the vote to have gone from landowners and business owners to everyone else. Couple that with Congressmen serving of their own free will, out of a sense of responsibility, and things would have been far different.

But that is a long gone issue, and for some of you to get your panties in a twist, is silly. I'm not now advocating anything, just musing over what's gone.

 

You are correct that things in our country would be different if our elected officals governed with a a sense of responsibility, but I don't think there are many politicans of either party that are interested in anything except power and personal gain!

You are correct in that I did misunderstand you, but don't worry the panties are now untwisted!

 

Amen and amen. I almost believe you should have to watch a certain amount of CSpan and pass a civics test (similar to a driver's test) every so often to retain your right to vote...but I'm wierd that way.

 

The problem is how many people could afford to serve for free. The result would be that only the rich would be in Congress. Actually, I think we would be better off if our representatives were paid very well. Then we might tend to get better people in Congress. Could you serve in Congress for free? I know I couldn't.

 

It was a totally different mindset. Men had honor. I read about this years ago, but if memory serves, a small stipend was discussed to cover travel and food, but was dismissed as being fraught with dishonorable potential.

It's the money that has ruined congress' sense of responsibility. They use it to become re-elected, and the payoffs are incredible. Look to the welfare programs, and education, and bridges to nowhere, and a myriad of other worthless programs, designed only to insure re-election. Hillary's cradle to grave health care system, would insure a democrat future and leave her and her followers with a lifetime job, high in the financial side of health care, and would leave us to pick up the tab, as do all of socialisms schemes.

 

So was slavery. What kind of property are we talking about? Land? A television? Lets see. I was a property owner for over 20 years then my wife and I decided in our later years to take it easy and move into a nice luxury apartment here in Florida.No maintenence. No grass to cut. So now we lose our right to vote?

 

Yep. Land.

 

Women were never considered property, and by law had a right to a living comensurate with her husband's estate.

And not being allowed to vote had nothing to do with a woman's intelligence, it had to do with gender roles in society.

 

What kind of mindset are some of these comments? We can barely get 20% of the people to vote in some elections, and some are wishing for the good old days so we can figure out how to get more people not to vote than already don't.

 

At least this injustice was remedied in 1920!

 

I'm not advocating anything of the sort. only lamenting what should/could have been. Read man........