vote buying okay here's a question (eventually). one politician is promising jobs jobs jobs. ie he wants to make you do a fair day's work for a fair day's wage. another politician is promising increased aid for the needy. ie he's offering you a free meal ticket. which one do you vote for? does anyone see the problem here? in the long run, putting everyone on welfare makes us a communist state. worse actually. cause communist states expect people to work for their communism. whereas in our welfare state, we don't. in a sense, politicians are buying votes from an ever expanding group of non-working voters. put that way, the solution is obvious. if you partake of the social safety net, you give up the right to vote. it's a crazy idea in the sense that it would never be accepted. maybe we can sneak it in. create an elite welfare tier where you voluntarily give up the right to vote. and possibly give up the right to conceive children too. though i haven't thought that one all the way through yet. keep the standard tier where you keep the right to vote. i'm betting lotta folks would rather live like little kings than vote. which would decrease the power of that voting block. and shift power back to the productive people. where we can regularly cut back the cost and services of both tiers. a win for society all around. the only people who lose are the the politicians who used to be able to buy votes. sigh. timmer for chairman of the constitutional convention.  ¶ 8:00 AM