Tom Haley and Brainsmasher are making sense.

I formally request the Moderators put an end to this behaviour at once. It might be infectious.

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Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data!
I did NOT authorize this belly writing!

Somebody in Iraq got rich while American soldiers and Iraqi civilians died.

At the end of the Iraq war, vast sums of money were made available to the US-led provisional authorities, headed by Paul Bremer, to spend on rebuilding the country. By the time Bremer left the post eight months later, $8.8bn of that money had disappeared. Ed Harriman on the extraordinary scandal of Iraq's missing billions

Thursday July 7, 2005
The Guardian

Give me just one million and I'll be happy. But, it is only paper right? Just print up another billion so I can use it in my wood stove.

Simply put, I feel that those who do not contribute to society should not have a say in how our society is run. Stop the unemployed, uneducated, and the welfare leeches from voting, and you'll see a rapid change in how things are run in this country as far as the "haves" being punished for the life decisions made by the "have nots".

I am a big fan of Robert Heinlein, as it seems is Tom. I love his ideas for granting and exercising franchise as outlined in "Starship Troopers".

1. To be granted franchise you must serve the public good for a minimum of 2 years. This service shall be totally voluntary, and not necessarily military in nature. The only penalty for refusing to serve is to have no right to vote.

2. The franchise is withheld during your service to preclude the possibility of a "Praetorian Guard" syndrome whereby the civil servants vote themselves favorable policies and choose who will lead them.

This would eliminate a significant amount of corruption in government. Not all, I'm not that naive, but it would remove those who live on the public dole from the ranks of the electorate, as well as all who have no interest in serving the public good.

Hey, that would remove the whole Berkeley City Council! :-)
What the heck is up in Berkeley?!

Thoughts anyone?

Sir W

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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Orwell