And it's just another step closer to voting in state elections, then national elections. If you have been in the country legally for 5-10 years, you have been here long enough to become a citizen. So become one then vote!
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Earlier this year the adminstration or Congress one was going to introduce a bill that would allow all these Mexicans coming into our country to vote. Don't know what the final outcome of that was. And you know of course who they will vote for: the people and adminstration who allowed them to come into the country in the first place!
Exactly - anything and everything that will allow for a quick fix for them, but at the expense of our nation's wealth which I and the other citizens who've been here for 47 years and more, have spent the better part of our lives building through very hard-earned tax dollars.
Only to have that turned into the care and feeding of recently arrived free-loaders?
Citizenship carries with it both privilages as well as responsibilities/duties. These folks want the privilages (immediate access to free healthcare) without the responsibilities/duties (having paid taxes for 30+ years).
NO.
I am totally against allowing non citizens to vote. See my post above if you don't understand why.
I'm totally with you, Ruby. Carry on.
As an immigrant, and now a citizen...
Congratulations, and welcome to the republic.
...I see no problem in allowing anyone on the path to citizenship the ability to vote.
Only after they
complete the citizen process, right?
If you don't want to get on the path, you don't want to vote very badly. It's not particularly difficult to become a citizen, so there really is nothing stopping anyone wanting to jump into the melting pot.
I agree, but privilages and responsibilities of citizenship go hand in hand. You can't take the brass ring until you've ridden the pony. I didn't get my wings until after I went through flight school, but couldn't go to flight school until I got the sheepskin. And I didn't get the sheepskin until after I finished every last course credit to the university's satisfaction. At that I wasn't allowed entrance into college until I'd successfully graduated high school, passed the SAT with good marks, and stayed out of trouble in school!
One does not pay workers before they've put in a full day's (or month's) work. You punch your time card on time for two weeks and only then will they cut you a check.
America is the land of opportunity! Not the land of freebies. We,
as do all good, healthy societies, require people do their duty as citizens before earning the privilages enjoyed as a result thereof. The duties are simple and unburdensom, but they begin with being (or becoming) a citizen.
I'll go one further, to say this includes any health care given without payment. If you're not a citizen and you're treated, then you're detained until either you, someone you know, or your country of origin pays your bill. If that doesn't happen in, say, 90 days, you're deported.
I'm sorry, but we're the land of Opportunity, not the land of freebies, and if you can't pay your bill, I, the taxpayer, have to foot your bill!