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From: jobe@ssc-vax.UUCP (John W Jobe)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: re: RE: voting (semi-FLAME)
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Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 18:57:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 21 18:57:16 1984
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Hmmmm- perhaps it's time to add my two cent's worth.  I can understand, and 
and almost even agree with the idea that more educated people vote more
sensibly(i will *not*, however, define sensible :-), I must emphatically 
point out that having made money does not necessarily imply that one has
"smarts", anymore than a high grade-point average absolutely implies vast
intelligence. 

    ***It only implies that the person with the money has money!***  
 

Let me tell you a little story (stop me if you've heard this!).  I have a 
neice (my wife's brother's ex-girlfriend's kid) who was featured on a TV
news story in my home town last week.  It seems that this kid is a born
hacker, 'cause she was using the Apple computer at her kindergarten to
draw all kinds of nifty pictures.  In fact, she was the best in her class
at it.  She's five(5) years old.  But, when the newsman asked her mother
if she was going to buy her kid a computer, her answer was "Man, are you 
crazy?"  You see, the woman's got 4 kids, she's on welfare(before you
right-wing welfare haters start steaming, I should mention that she's
also in a jobs training program and trying very hard to get out of the
mess she's in)**and there's no way she can afford to pay for a micro**.
So, this kid who shows so much promise will eventually lose it, lose interest,
and become another statistic.  

So, her mom has no money, therefore she may never make any money, and so 
she would never get to vote.  What a friggin' waste.  Of course, those who
had money would never consider putting their "hard-earned"cash out to help
such people- the training program that this kid's mom is in probably would
never exist- and there will always be an underclass of poverty in this 
country.  

Extra votes for having money?  Pfui.


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From the oftimes fiery but seldom understood keyboard of

the dark avenger
Jobe
(...!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!jobe)
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From the oftimes fiery but seldom understood keyboard of

the dark avenger
Jobe
(...!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!jobe)