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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NkjbJOSwq3A

 

"OBAMA WANTS EVERYONE TO GO COLLEGE.......what a snob"....ok I saw this late but could someone explain this to me?

Incredible. Surely Obama wants everyone to have the opportunity or the choice to go to college? He's not gonna run around stuffing rednecks into hessian sacks and dumping them in college campuses (campi?) to have liberals force book-learnin' on them.

Actually what Obama said (not going to be bothered to find the video) was that he wants every American to commit to at least one year of higher education, whether that's a four year university, a community college, trade school or an apprenticeship (he actually mentioned all of those things).

See that sounds much more likely. And fairly sensible. I guess it's harder to bitch about those liberal hippy plumbers.

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This is the kind of story that makes my head asplode:

 

http://www.foxnews.c...s-voter-id-law/

 

The fact that anyone can argue that photo id is discriminatory when they are readily available to any legitimate citizen is just crazy. Maybe if there was some high cost or if it were even a little hard to get an ID they'd have a point but getting an ID is no harder than getting out and voting or even registering to vote. This is such a stupid and obviously political decision. Shame on this Tom Perez.

 

also: I guess every single person who's ever had to get a drivers license has had to endure "undue hardship"

and that might be true considering the lines at the dmv.....

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The fact that anyone can argue that photo id is discriminatory when they are readily available to any legitimate citizen is just crazy.

 

Disclaimer: didn't read the link, just responding to this one bit.

 

I tend to agree with you, but the key is "when they are readily available". I have read of several states where they pass a law requiring photo ID for voting, and then make it their policy not to tell people that it's possible to get an ID for free. THAT is discriminatory. That said, I'm perfectly fine with requiring a state-issued photo ID if you actually do make it readily available and advertise that you can get an ID for free.

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The fact that anyone can argue that photo id is discriminatory when they are readily available to any legitimate citizen is just crazy.

 

Disclaimer: didn't read the link, just responding to this one bit.

 

I tend to agree with you, but the key is "when they are readily available". I have read of several states where they pass a law requiring photo ID for voting, and then make it their policy not to tell people that it's possible to get an ID for free. THAT is discriminatory. That said, I'm perfectly fine with requiring a state-issued photo ID if you actually do make it readily available and advertise that you can get an ID for free.

 

I find it rather insulting when the arguments come back that Voter ID is racist or its discriminatory against the poor. Funny, I figured that it was discriminatory against non-citizens. :-/ I also agree with Yant that the Justice Department is motivated by politics more than actual justice (see the Justice Dept vs Arizona Immigration laws.)

 

I do agree with you about educating the public about the free State ID cards and that should, of course, be included in any notice about the law passage.Which states were deliberately withholding information about free ID cards? I haven't heard of that happening.

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Wisconsin was the only one I found on a quick search. I had been under the impression there were others but I could be wrong.

 

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/129469023.html

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/129400013.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-bottari/wisconsin-voter-id-_b_954976.html

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it says in the article you'd have to pay for the voter id. I can't believe they could get away with placing a financial barrier between voter and their right to vote. It doesn't mention a state id though. Are they free to obtain?

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it says in the article you'd have to pay for the voter id. I can't believe they could get away with placing a financial barrier between voter and their right to vote. It doesn't mention a state id though. Are they free to obtain?

 

I missed that part, I assumed there was a free alternative in Texas like in all the other states that passed an ID requirement. Yeah, that could definitely be an unconstitutional poll tax on top of the discrimination claims (states can't charge people to vote).

 

All the IDs they accept are "state" IDs though. Stuff like driver's license, military ID, concealed-carry license, passport, etc.

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it says in the article you'd have to pay for the voter id. I can't believe they could get away with placing a financial barrier between voter and their right to vote. It doesn't mention a state id though. Are they free to obtain?

 

I missed that part, I assumed there was a free alternative in Texas like in all the other states that passed an ID requirement. Yeah, that could definitely be an unconstitutional poll tax on top of the discrimination claims (states can't charge people to vote).

 

All the IDs they accept are "state" IDs though. Stuff like driver's license, military ID, concealed-carry license, passport, etc.

 

sorry, not sure how it works in the US, by State ID card I meant a generic identity card which is just to identify who you are and that you're a resident of that state and not for a specific thing like gun ownership/driving.

 

Seems like you'd have to pay for all the other ones you mentioned which is why I thought there may be a generic identity card that you could apply for for free. I know they wanted to introduce one to the UK a few years ago and there was an absolute stink over it, lots of civil liberty groups up in arms, and other people about the expense of it running into the billions. Only got canned after we wasted a fortune.

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Yeah, most states already have some kind of generic ID card, but normally it's not free and it's optional (it's basically a driver's license without the "license to drive" part). AFAI knew all the states that had passed voter ID laws had made that generic ID free to avoid the "poll tax" issue, so I assumed Texas had done the same. Apparently not.

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People view politics so backwards. $900 billion was an estimate. It's hard to predict how much this sort of thing will cost especially with the bureaucratic nightmare that is the US government.

 

Either way, I think cost is irrelevant. Everyone should be able to get cheap/free basic medical care.

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Except that this wasn't hard to predict. Everyone knew he was fudging the $900 billion factor using a number of tricks so that's why I said the 2 Trillion total cost was no surprise. It's been no surprise that this thing was going to add another Trillion dollars to the national debt but Obama and the democratic congress should be held accountable for being completely dishonest about the costs of the legislation.

 

Edit: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/09/obama-health-care-reform-will-not-increase-deficit/

 

All the conservative commentators then were saying that the $900 billion figure was a joke.

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Everyone always lies about what their proposals will do, and especially what they will cost/save, on both sides.

 

I do understand where you're coming from though, and I'd probably be doing the same thing if it was a program I opposed.

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I will say that I find that everytime I talk about Obama and all the lousy things he does to people who voted for him they respond with "everyone does that" as if it somehow absolves Obama.

 

Yeah, I didn't so much mean it as a defense of him, more as an explanation as to why I can't bring myself to care.

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Can't speak for others, but I certainly care about the NDAA. I won't be voting for president this term because of it (cannot in good conscience support any of the candidates). But a politician lying about something is one of those things that's so expected that I just can't care when another specific example comes to light.

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