Coming home today I saw a billboard with a question on it asking "Should people getting entitlements be allowed to vote?"
I would have to assume (even though you shouldn't assume) that the person or persons that posed this question meant people collecting social security, welfare, food stamps, medicare and medicaid. That would take out about half of the voting population and maybe they figured those were the uniformed voters and it would improve the system.
Now, let's think about what that question really means if we are to take it to the full meaning of entitlements. Not only would we eliminate the elderly, disabled, poor and injured. We would have to the right to vote from the businesses that get tax breaks, the farmer that gets a subsidy, the military vets that get VA care, all of the students that get grants or loans and let's not forget the politicians since they get government benefits. Now, whom is left to vote our leaders that can't run in the first place because they are no longer registered voters.
I don't imagine this is what the person or persons meant when they put that sign up but that is what happens when you don't think before you talk or in this case right.
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