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20 Ideas The US Needs To Steal From The Rest Of The World

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  • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody

    Well the voting test wouldn't be just an IQ test.

    You'd have US and World History, US Govt, Current Events, some science, etc.

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    LogicIsForSquaresL LogicIsForSquares wrote on last edited by
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    @mld-woody said:

    Well the voting test wouldn't be just an IQ test.

    You'd have US and World History, US Govt, Current Events, some science, etc.

    "Science? A bunch of liberal bullshit."

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      Browns149B Browns149 wrote on last edited by
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      Just a general working knowledge of the world, specifically this country, would do. It doesn't have to be an "IQ" test per say.

      Also an ability to form one's OWN opinion would help.

      Following what the "party" line is, or following some blowhole on TV or radio, is NOT knowledge. It's one-sided and not really helping things

      "And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve."
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        C calfoxwc wrote on last edited by
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        The criteria will be liberal self-serving. college libs will say ya need college...etc.

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          compulsory voting would be juxtaposed 180° from a supposedly free people.

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          @mohican said:

          compulsory voting would be juxtaposed 180° from a supposedly free people.

          Frankly the less morons who vote the better.

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            W Westside Steve wrote on last edited by Westside Steve
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            I didn't see my favorite idea which is the loser pays system that I've heard our friends in Great Britain use.

            (but the cynic in me can certainly see a plethora of abuses in some of them. I've got a bad knee hopefully I can get a free blowjob in Holland. 😉 )

            And will be liberals in the Netherlands allow a hooker to refuse a blowjob to a non circumsized cripple during Passover?

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              The criteria will be liberal self-serving. college libs will say ya need college...etc.

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              MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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              @calfoxwc said:

              The criteria will be liberal self-serving. college libs will say ya need college...etc.

              Criteria like basic scientific knowledge... lol

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                DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
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                Only productive members of society can vote. Meaning working full time and not receiving government assistance. If you receive government assistance you may not vote until you being working and continue to work for at least one year and have stopped receiving any type of welfare or unemployment.

                "You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970.
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                  Only productive members of society can vote. Meaning working full time and not receiving government assistance. If you receive government assistance you may not vote until you being working and continue to work for at least one year and have stopped receiving any type of welfare or unemployment.

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                  MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by MLD Woody
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                  @diehardbrownsfan said:

                  Only productive members of society can vote. Meaning working full time and not receiving government assistance. If you receive government assistance you may not vote until you being working and continue to work for at least one year and have stopped receiving any type of welfare or unemployment.

                  Also, anyone over 65 can't vote. You're in the back 4th of your life anyway and won't really have to deal with the consequences of your votes.

                  Also, based on DieHards suggestion, really retirees in general can not vote. They aren't contributing and just receive money

                  Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
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                    C calfoxwc wrote on last edited by
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                    anyone who pays taxes, and owns property can vote.

                    that excludes college students going to college IN OTHER STATES, especially.

                    well, excludes all college students. Unless they are working and paying taxes...

                    with a property ownership exemption, except on LOCAL and STATE ISSUES.

                    That oughta do it.

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                    • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody

                      @diehardbrownsfan said:

                      Only productive members of society can vote. Meaning working full time and not receiving government assistance. If you receive government assistance you may not vote until you being working and continue to work for at least one year and have stopped receiving any type of welfare or unemployment.

                      Also, anyone over 65 can't vote. You're in the back 4th of your life anyway and won't really have to deal with the consequences of your votes.

                      Also, based on DieHards suggestion, really retirees in general can not vote. They aren't contributing and just receive money

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                      DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
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                      @mld-woody said:

                      Also, anyone over 65 can't vote. You're in the back 4th of your life anyway and won't really have to deal with the consequences of your votes.

                      Also, based on DieHards suggestion, really retirees in general can not vote. They aren't contributing and just receive money

                      BUT its not assistance, it is earned money. I would make the voting ages 32-65 with above work stipulations. Twenties is too young too vote. Still a baby brain.

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                        anyone who pays taxes, and owns property can vote.

                        that excludes college students going to college IN OTHER STATES, especially.

                        well, excludes all college students. Unless they are working and paying taxes...

                        with a property ownership exemption, except on LOCAL and STATE ISSUES.

                        That oughta do it.

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                        MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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                        @calfoxwc said:

                        anyone who pays taxes, and owns property can vote.

                        that excludes college students going to college IN OTHER STATES, especially.

                        well, excludes all college students. Unless they are working and paying taxes...

                        with a property ownership exemption, except on LOCAL and STATE ISSUES.

                        That oughta do it.

                        That excludes anyone in an apartment or renting a house...

                        Also, I never voted on local issues when I was at Michigan. It didn't make sense to me. I had no intention of working there after school.

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                        • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody

                          @calfoxwc said:

                          anyone who pays taxes, and owns property can vote.

                          that excludes college students going to college IN OTHER STATES, especially.

                          well, excludes all college students. Unless they are working and paying taxes...

                          with a property ownership exemption, except on LOCAL and STATE ISSUES.

                          That oughta do it.

                          That excludes anyone in an apartment or renting a house...

                          Also, I never voted on local issues when I was at Michigan. It didn't make sense to me. I had no intention of working there after school.

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                          @mld-woody said:

                          That excludes anyone in an apartment or renting a house...

                          Also, I never voted on local issues when I was at Michigan. It didn't make sense to me. I had no intention of working there after school.

                          As someone who pays property tax through the nose for my four houses it is annoying to see school levies voted on by people with no actual skin in the game.

                          I just bite my tongue and assume it's a cost of doing business.

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                            C calfoxwc wrote on last edited by
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                            I was just going to make the "skin in the game" point. As in,

                            you're on welfare, renting, and you get to vote to raise levies?

                            Property tax - once you own your own home, by God, you shouldn't

                            have to keep paying "rent" on it. That's more like "protection money - you keep

                            paying to be allowed to keep your home you paid off"

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                              @diehardbrownsfan said:

                              Only productive members of society can vote. Meaning working full time and not receiving government assistance. If you receive government assistance you may not vote until you being working and continue to work for at least one year and have stopped receiving any type of welfare or unemployment.

                              Also, anyone over 65 can't vote. You're in the back 4th of your life anyway and won't really have to deal with the consequences of your votes.

                              Also, based on DieHards suggestion, really retirees in general can not vote. They aren't contributing and just receive money

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                              StinkHoleS StinkHole wrote on last edited by
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                              @mld-woody said:

                              Also, based on DieHards suggestion, really retirees in general can not vote. They aren't contributing and just receive money

                              Include welfare recipients to those not contributing anything and are just receiving money.

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                                StinkHoleS StinkHole wrote on last edited by
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                                If voters were required to pass an intelligence test in order to vote then we would never have a democrat president.
                                Democrats need the dumb....
                                Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and every dumb ass liberal.

                                Some suggested question types for the exam...

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                                  @mld-woody said:

                                  Also, based on DieHards suggestion, really retirees in general can not vote. They aren't contributing and just receive money

                                  Include welfare recipients to those not contributing anything and are just receiving money.

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                                  MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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                                  Stuart said:

                                  Include welfare recipients to those not contributing anything and are just receiving money.

                                  Diehard already said that, you're just going in a circle.

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                                  • C calfoxwc

                                    The criteria will be liberal self-serving. college libs will say ya need college...etc.

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                                    StinkHoleS StinkHole wrote on last edited by
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                                    @calfoxwc said:

                                    The criteria will be liberal self-serving. college libs will say ya need college...etc.

                                    Lol..I guess you can say that.

                                    Listen to these Michigan products...

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                                      I was just going to make the "skin in the game" point. As in,

                                      you're on welfare, renting, and you get to vote to raise levies?

                                      Property tax - once you own your own home, by God, you shouldn't

                                      have to keep paying "rent" on it. That's more like "protection money - you keep

                                      paying to be allowed to keep your home you paid off"

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                                      LogicIsForSquaresL LogicIsForSquares wrote on last edited by
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                                      @calfoxwc said:

                                      Property tax - once you own your own home, by God, you shouldn't

                                      have to keep paying "rent" on it. That's more like "protection money - you keep

                                      paying to be allowed to keep your home you paid off"

                                      I have never understood this. Might as well say you are renting your property from the government. You get behind on those taxes, they will sure as shit come and take it.

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                                        mohicanM mohican wrote on last edited by
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                                        As I stated earlier, just having a test be:

                                        who are your two Federal Senators?

                                        who is your representative in the US House of Representatives?

                                        That would probably eliminate 30-40 percent of voters

                                        To eliminate another 10-20 percent of voters

                                        what is the difference between debt and deficit?

                                        Hope has two beautiful daughters: Their names are Anger and Courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be. - St. Augustine. Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their vision. - Ayn Rand
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                                          C calfoxwc wrote on last edited by calfoxwc
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                                          I think the rest of the world should adopt a constitution exactly in structure

                                          like ours.

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