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How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth?
Attila Dimedici writes "Two thirds of the students at NYU would give up their right to vote in the next election for a full scholarship. Some would be satisfied with an ipod. A few would be willing to give up the right for the rest of their lives for one million dollars."
Actually, the British colony of Canada in 1775 was barely 12 years old and was handed out to the British by the French who lost in a battle of war in 1763. The Loyalist who fled the USA to Canada were loyal to the crown and were, of course well treated by the leader of the British colony. Who needs a tight grip when you know your people are happy?
There is no constitutional right to vote in federal elections.
It depends on which ones you are talking about. Go read some of Thomas Jefferson's letters. He was a wealthy conservative christian...but he also spoke out a great deal about how religion is meaningless if morality and belief is enforced by government. He also had wonderful things to say like "The beauty of the 2nd ammendment is that you do not need it until the government tries to take it away".
People try to do this crap with the founding fathers about how "oh they were just rich elitists too". Well some of them surely were, the famous ones not so much. They were felons and revolutionaries and were well aware that if their little rebellion were to fail... "We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately". Fancy that...government officials that actually DID risk their lives... No they are most certainly not the same as the current crop of sniveling spineless greedy jingoistic wack jobs we have today.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
T.J. was a deist, if that. Please stop the mythmaking about our founders being Christians, it just fuels the wackaloons who want to turn America into a theocracy.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .