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.I'm waiting for the next step in this mental strip tease where the Tea Party slowly unveils its real party platform. I'm expecting the next revelation to be:
The right to vote needs to be restricted to slave owners.That and the re-instatement in the Constitution that a slave counts for three-fifths of a vote by the slave holder.
I understand that Glen Beck has dibs on buying the rights to Barack Obama to become his personal slave.
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I wonder if these people realize that this would knock out most of the poor to middle class; since most of them do not own the property that they live on and some of those are not even making the payments. Talk about a no sense of reality. Making the payments does not make you a property owner in any real sense of the term. I would go on to speculate (perhaps some investigation is in order) that many of our rich do not own property in this country, but live on leased or mortgaged land. I would say that many of our rich do not have any investment in this country beyond maybe owning a home or not..
I bet if slave ownership was to be reinstated; many would opt to contract with a slave holding company and basically rent their slaves.
Thomas: I admit, I hadn't thought of it. But you are right. Most of the rich would subcontract the slave holding to a holding company. That's the nice thing about being really, really rich. You don't have to get your hands dirty.
When, the landed aristocrats of England wanted to grow more wool, they hired out the hard work of forcing people off the traditional commons, burning down their houses, and putting up the fences. No aristocratic lord or lady would sully their hands beating the poor to force them off the land. That was the job of the "hired help".
The rich don't care about the middle class or the working class. They just want to know that they can hire "personal attendants" at a good price. The more unemployed, the easier it is to hire staff to look after your stuff if you are rich.
These are fabulous times in which to be truly wealthy! If you watch the films of the early 1930s you can see they grand old days that the rich are hankering to get back to. All that household staff in livery. And those big old homes with rooms and rooms and rooms. A chauffeur for the car. Elite social parties that kept the riffraff out. Those were the days!
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