Scrooge Rush Limbaugh Claims The Poor Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Vote

[The Straight Story]

Scrooge Rush Limbaugh Claims The Poor Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Vote

On a day when the US unemployment rate rose to 9.8%, Rush Limbaugh used his radio show to argue that poor people should not be allowed to vote. While commenting about a piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about people lining up for housing assistance, Limbaugh asked, “ If people can’t even feed and clothe themselves should they be allowed to vote? Should they be voting?”

http://www.politicususa.com/en/limbaugh-poor-vote

[somone]

1. Heck, how about another bankruptcy reform

where bankrupt people lose civil rights upon bankruptcy. The president might be willing to 'compromise' on it.

[saigon68]

10. He will compromise

He's done nothing for the poor or the hungry lately

THE MILLIONAIRES HOWEVER will be getting a TAX CUT soon ----thanks to him

[mudplanet]

2. Gosh. I feel the same way about fat drug addicts

[NotThisTime]

12. Even moreso about fat drug addicts who make their living essentially off the low information voter

[Union Scribe]

3. Nah, he's no Scrooge. Scrooge showed he could change.

;)

[FrancisTreptoe]

4. I swear this guy gets worse and worse as the days pass

Total partisan hack.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. K&R

[Angry Dragon]

6. This from a man that has a charter membership at rentboys.com

[MiniMe]

7. Of course he doesn't want poor people to vote

He figures that they are either black, or vote democratic. What a piece of work he is.

[Strelnikov_]

8. Tea Party position is that only property owners should have voting rights

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/30/tea-party-voting-property/

PHILLIPS: The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.

[starroute]

9. They're desperately trying to repeal democracy

They know they're a shrinking minority, so they want to amend the Constitution to limit majority rule in any way they can. Repeal the popular election of Senators and go back to the old way of having them chosen by corrupt state legislatures. Repeal the amendment which lowered the voting age to 18. Repeal birthright citizenship. Impose property or literacy tests for voting. Give states the right to override any federal legislation.

Every one of those proposals would either radically restrict voting rights or would enable a (mostly rural and small town) minority to outweigh the majority. In short, they're all intended to perpetuate the power of elderly white affluent conservatives.

I'm not sure why all these radical proposals are popping up now -- I don't think they can seriously expect to pass any of them, even in the current climate. Either it's a sign of desperation or they're trying to set things up to have less radical restrictions appear sane and reasonable. Either way, it's very disturbing.

[cbdo2007]

11. Seems fair. What do other comedians think, and should their opinions be taken into account as well?

[Skidmore]

13. Rush is with the Wall Street/Club for Growth program.

In "Capitalism: A Love Story," Stephen Moore said that he didn't really like democracy and that capitalism was more important. Michael Moore made the point that the wealthy only have 1% of the votes so there is every incentive to do away with the remaining 99%.

[AvaMae]

14. There comes a time............

....when you should celebrate that you are not intellectually so crippled that you need Rush Limbaugh to do your thinking for you.

....when you realize that in the ultimate yin and yang of the world, should people who belittle others, lie, cheat, accuse without basis in fact, and find fault with, criticize every deed and word of elected leaders, betray their country with shoddy government just so they can look better and get back into the White House, should not benefit by becoming leader of the free world. If they do, if that can happen in our country, it is not the country we thought it was.

....when you remember the history of this Great Nation.. how the vote was often from someone who could not even read or write, who had been years and years on the frontier, fighting Indian wars, French wars, Colonial wars, did not own a farm, or land, or even much money, but put their life on the line for the country and all its citizens, and came to put their mark on the ballot as citizens of the United States of America.....much as the young soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq do today.

No one ever dared ask them if they were property owners before they are allowed to vote. This country owes them a debt that can never be paid already. No One...except Rush Limbaugh.