Universal suffrage is NOT fair.

It’s not fair whatsoever to the people that have a stake in this country. The people that pay the bills and make things happen get shafted because the people that don’t have any stake in the country will always vote to plunder the treasury.

Robert Heinlein said that citizenship should be earned and I do believe he is right. There should be any number of ways that citizenship should be earned.

A lot of people don’t understand that one of the benefits of finishing a contract in the French Foreign Legion with a good conduct certificate is that one can automatically be given French citizenship. Being wounded in the Legion is also an automatic French citizenship called ‘French by spilled blood’.

Same holds in this country. I’ve advocated for an American Foreign Legion for years. It would be somewhat similar to the French Foreign Legion in that it would be a path to citizenship for foreigners willing to serve.

Military service to people born in the country could serve as a way to gain citizenship.

Of course I would not restrict citizenship only to military veterans. There would be other paths to citizenship. One could for example work in a National forest or work doing things to improve the quality of American life.

The bottom line here is that you would have to contribute to be able to earn your citizenship. You should not be given citizenship and the rights that go with it simply because you are born here. In order to be allowed to vote you should have a stake in the country instead of simply been born here.

It’s really not fair to those of us with a stake in the country to give the vote to someone that has simply decided to take from the rest of us instead of contributing.

One thing for sure, if you were on any kind of governmental support you would not be permitted to vote. Permitting welfare recipients to be able to vote for an increase is just plain wrong.

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