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richardhutnik on 11 August 2012
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Kasz216 said:
Jon-Erich said:
I'm not sure how I feel about this law. How do you distinguish between those who are lazy and leech off society as opposed to honest people who may be collecting unemployment, but who have trouble finding a stable job? Between mid 2009 and mid 2010, I was unemployed. I didn't choose to be that way. The place I worked at closed down. I collected unemployment for a year. I honestly couldn't find a job. I don't think it would have been fair to deny my right to vote (even though the 2010 elections took place after I found a job).



Scott Brown doesn't actually want people on welfare to note vote.  That's just taking out of context the fact that Scott Brown is angry that a specific action is being taken, that wasn't before to go way out of the way to help his opponent with government funds... by the other candidates daughter.

An analogus situation would be if John Kaish in Ohio suddenly passed a massive government funded initative to register rural voters.

 

The initiative was to register people on welfare to vote, in order to be compliant with federal requirements, by getting them ballots.  In short, don't spend tax dollars to enable people to vote.  Why?  Because these individuals in the assessment of Scott Brown, are individuals who are opposed to his campaign.  He flat out said that the tax dollars were being spent to enable those who are opposed to him, to get them to vote.  As he said:

I want every legal vote to count, but it’s outrageous to use taxpayer dollars to register welfare recipients as part of a special effort to boost one political party over another. This effort to sign up welfare recipients is being aided by Elizabeth Warren’s daughter and it’s clearly designed to benefit her mother’s political campaign. It means that I’m going to have to work that much harder to get out my pro-jobs, pro-free enterprise message.

 

The reality here is that welfare recipients would vote not for him, but his opponent.  Spending tax dollars to get them to vote, is working against him.  In short, that demographic is opposed to him.  Thus, take it back to my original point: If you feel people on welfare and unemployed and shouldn't vote, vote Republican.  That is the standard policy there.  In fact, I could bring up the Ann Coulters and others, who are moutpieces promoting the GOP agenda, and show how they come out and do say this.