I too believe that a minimum standard should be met by every individual before being allowed to impose their world views on the public by casting a vote in this country whether it be Federal or State vote on any issue.

My standard would begin with allowing a vote only to those who rise above the receipt of any form of entitlement from the State or Federal Government to include those on the payroll for the government.  There will be no way to curtail the endless supply of money from the tax paying public to those who either cannot or will not elevate themselves above the insistence on their entitlements.  We are rapidly approaching a point at which the views of the tax paying public will no longer be a consideration in the business of governing this nation.

It would be interesting to see what a voter eligibility map might look like if the amount of government subsidy was subtracted from the government support, tax income, across the nation. If this method of voter eligibility were instituted as a measure of the need for representation in the House of Representatives as opposed to a general census of the population, I wonder how many fewer representatives would be in office as a result.  I suspect the representation of heavily populated areas could be seriously diminished and that in favor of those on whose backs the burden of entitlement actually rests.

I would be all for the Civics knowledge on top of something like the above as a measure to assure that we are not being steered by those who would seemingly feel more at home in China, Russia or some other socialist environment.

Thank you for your service to your readers.

I don’t agree with every war, however there are times when we need to stand up to those that attack us or our citizens.

Could you also please cite a source for our Founding Fathers where they believed only property owners should vote? As far as playing the military card as you call it…I just think that if one is willing to serve their country they should have a voice in how things are done. Is that so bad? Most soldiers, sailors, or Marines don’t own property. Would you dent them the right to vote?

It is a very good idea to require voters to pass a test on civic literacy before they can vote, however, in all likelihood it will never happen. Liberals are street-smart, and they know that the more informed an electorate is the less likely they will vote for liberals. The only wars liberals know how to win are culture wars, but they are very formidable in those kind of wars. Liberals knew in the early 1970s that a big key to them permanently retaining their power was to dumb down students with classes such as social studies and to indoctrinate them. A lot of other evil happened in the United States in the early 1970s as well such as Roe v. Wade, and a Republican president forced to resign from office. If Ronald Reagan hadn’t come along as president in the 1980s, then the country would already be finished. Unfortunately, the liberals regained power in all three branches of government from 2006-2008, and things have been hanging by a thread, but America still has a pulse. The elections in 2010 and 2012 will determine if America continues to have a future or not.

Clay

Although I agree in principle to what you said in your column, you must realize that literacy tests (along with poll taxes) are how we in the South prevented blacks from voting before > those measures were declared illegal and unconstitutional. I think it would be impossible at this point to reinstate them.

Regards,

Harold Harmon
Senior Citizen
Decatur, GA