Thread: The time has come for national voting standards By Bradley Blakeman, opinion contribu

Originally Posted by Judy

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Back to the right to drive, look at what states have done with car registrations, vehicle inspections and mandatory liability insurance. For millions of Americans, that priced them right out of the right to drive even if they have a drivers license because they can't afford to keep a car that complies with all the government requirements. Without a car, they can't look for work, they can't get to work, they can't get to the store, they're trapped, hopeless and helpless. And now what do people say to them? You're lazy, you're no good, you're worthless. With no car, they can't earn, so they eventually lose their home, now they're homeless.

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You have to say: driving is my right, driving is my horse, driving is my right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, because it is. For most Americans, the right to drive is one of our most important and vital rights of all to survive. That is not a "privilege", that is not a "peculiar benefit", that is not a "favor" from the government. It is a right by all counts and measures.

Driving is not a privilege, but neither is it a right. You do not need a license to vote, you do not need to pass some sort of test to become a citizen if you are born to citizen parents. Driving on public roads is a license, not a right, not a privilege. Consider that in the civil rights struggle for the vote among African Americans, many argued for literacy tests for citizens. This never happened.

Privileges are granted to people for personal reasons. For example in the US there is nobody privileged in the eyes of the law. This removes the possibility of a monarch or a peerage as we see in Europe where there is still royalty. Royalty is privileged under the legal systems of these countries. Sometimes they collect taxes. Privileges are something you grant your teenager for good behavior.

We fought a revolution in the foundation of the US that overthrew the old order of English authority as part of revolution going on in Europe in the cause of citizenship. This, a new order based on national universal equality under the law.

DMV actions that lead to the loss of driving privileges:


http://www.dmv.org/articles/actions-...ng-privileges/

Is voting a right? A privilege? Or a responsibility?

http://www.fairvote.org/voting-a-rig...responsibility

It's a right and don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Same with driving.

Know your rights and fight for them. They won't be coming your way again once you let them go.

Originally Posted by Beezer

DMV actions that lead to the loss of driving privileges:


http://www.dmv.org/articles/actions-...ng-privileges/

Don't let a state government tell you your rights are "privileges".

Wake Up People. For heavens sake. You're sheep herded to the slaughter if you don't wake up.

Originally Posted by pkskyali

Driving is not a privilege, but neither is it a right. You do not need a license to vote, you do not need to pass some sort of test to become a citizen if you are born to citizen parents. Driving on public roads is a license, not a right, not a privilege. Consider that in the civil rights struggle for the vote among African Americans, many argued for literacy tests for citizens. This never happened.

Privileges are granted to people for personal reasons. For example in the US there is nobody privileged in the eyes of the law. This removes the possibility of a monarch or a peerage as we see in Europe where there is still royalty. Royalty is privileged under the legal systems of these countries. Sometimes they collect taxes. Privileges are something you grant your teenager for good behavior.

We fought a revolution in the foundation of the US that overthrew the old order of English authority as part of revolution going on in Europe in the cause of citizenship. This, a new order based on national universal equality under the law.

Driving is a right. If I'm the government and I want to hurt you, how could I do that? Well, lets see, oh I know, I'll mess with their driving "privileges". We have major "congestion" on Mondays through Fridays, so we'll revoke half of all drivers licenses to reduce traffic and end the congestion problem and reduce air pollution, traffic jams and rush-hour accidents, the half with revoked licenses in the name of the other half, can take the bus or train to work and call Uber to drive to the store and shopping center. Uber will love this and will donate to my upcoming election.

But they won't like that some will cry out and then they'll vote you out of office!! Oh that's no problem, we'll just make sure the buses and trains are closed on election day. They'll vote on line or with absentee ballots! Oh that's no problem, we'll end all that, voting is a "privilege' after all, just like their driving "privilege". We're the government and we tell these stupid people what they can and can not do, because we're the government and created to tell the people what is their right and what is their "privilege", so we can change it all around any time we want.

All we have to do is say it on the internet through the DMV and Election Commission websites that voting and driving are not rights, they're "privileges". And they believe it!! LOL!!! And of course, to make sure no one cheats on our new rules, we'll issue them a Voting License IF they have a Driver's License. They loves their licenses, makes them feel important, special, above others, it's their way of being part of the Elite, that they have to present on election day to make sure they're a "legal" voter.

We're the government and we decide, not the people sheep. We'll move on food next month. They're eating all the wrong things and way too much of it. We cut their food intake we cut their grocery bills and we can help our donors cut their wages.

An American citizen male that fathers a child and does NOT pay child support will have his dl suspended & monies taken out of his paycheck also - apparently that does not pertain to all the anchor baby fathers in the country illegally - another privilege for them, not responsible financially for their byproducts, let American citizens pay for them instead. They probably collected on the child credit tax too...

The drivers license is a tool of tyranny. It's not right what they do to men with this child support mess. More tyranny from the states. And the mess they put employers through deducting the child support from the wages. Employers have to mess with this crap. It's unbelievable, all because the states wnat reimbursed for their Medicaid costs for the deliveries of the babies the men in most cases didn't even know they had because most of the time they didn't even remember the woman they had sex with.

It's disgusting. If a single woman has a baby, then she needs to pay for it. Her choice, her expense.

Takes 2 to tango - pay up, ahem, men

Why should the man get off the hook? It is his sperm...his baby too and his night of "fun". Just because the man cannot carry the child does not mean it is not his and he is not financially responsible for it.

It has been socially acceptable for men to just walk away from their children and leave it up to the taxpayers to pay for the welfare, food stamps, housing and medical care. This has gone on for decades and needs to stop. I do not want to pay for their children, I have my own bills to pay. Why should I pay yours!

This is disgusting. End the breed and feed programs. Make it so you get help for 1 child, 3 years maximum lifetime benefit. Any more you have you are on your own. People are making a career off of living on the dole.

I am all for FREE vasectomies and tubal ligations, make them easily accessible like making a Dentist appointment. Send the message...you do not want kids? Go get fixed because WE are not paying for your generations of welfare and food stamps anymore. And what a disgusting, selfish thing to have a child in poverty.

People are going to have sex whether we like it or not...I would rather pay for the vasectomies and tubal ligations than the welfare, the crime, and the effects of poverty on these children.

Also, MEN can go get birth control, use condoms, or go get a vasectomy! Man up...you do not want them, do not want to pay for them...and neither do I.

SO IS IT A RIGHT? OR A PRIVILEGE? TO HAVE CHILDREN AND FORCE TAXPAYERS TO PAY FOR YOUR POOR CHOICES IN LIFE?

STOP DUMPING THIS ALL ON THE WOMEN...RIDICULOUS!