Are Our Judges Ignorant?

Voter ID Law Struck Down.

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - A federal court has ruled against a Texas law that would require voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to cast ballots in November.

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My Comment

This Federal Court’s decision demonstrates the ignorance of our leaders—Judges in this case.    

“…it imposes strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor, and racial minorities…”

Do these judges know how the poor and minorities live, to make such statement?  The poor and minorities live without banking accounts and without credit cards. 

It is common knowledge, to open a banking account the citizen needs an ID.  Thus, these judges are assuming that the poor and minorities do not have IDs.  The poor and the minorities who are too poor to have banking accounts, do their financial transactions by money orders and money-grams, and Western-Union. 

Do these judges know that to buy a money order or to cash a check, or send or receive from Western –Union, the client has to presnt an ID.  So, poor people have at least one ID.  If the ignorant judges mean the poor as being the homeless, these judges are showing their ignorance there too.  For, to stay at a homeless shelter the patron must provide and ID.  

Every body has an ID.  The only people who don’t need an ID are the people who live 100% off the street—that is a very small number, even among the homeless.  Such people who live off the street, don’t vote; they are detached from society.   So we need leaders—especially judges, to be people from the lower strata of society, people who know what life is all about; otherwise, ignorance rules, as in the voting ID situation.

 

ROMNEY Forcing Higher Retirement Age?

My TAKE

Mitt Romney has a lot of courage, but is it honesty? The government instituted Social Security not as a handout, but as garnished money from US workers. As it is, some organizations that were able to have private retirement, have done better than the government forced retirement. It shows that the government is a poor manager of its citizen’s money.

Now, comes Romney and wants to force a change on the contract for the worse. Romney’s enforcement will affect those who worked all their lives in the hope of being able to eat when they can’t find a job because of age. Romney now wants those people to suffer even more—that is breach of contract.

Many poor people have had layoffs as part of their lives, especially after shutdowns—some of us count up to 5 direct shutdowns. Those of us who have had to choose between being cold and putting food on the table, are the folks who will be forced to pay for Mr. Millionaire Romney’s election promises. Unless, he plans not following through with it.

Romney already forced the poor people in Massachusetts to choose between paying for forced health-care, or buying food for the table. Now, he wants to make the entire US population suffer even more; by increments, the sneaky way.

We normally can’t find people over 60 working in Mr. Millionaire Romney’s stores. Which means that Romney’s stores—SAPLES, don’t hire the people whom Mr. Romney wants to forbid in getting what the government had promised—retirement at 65.

Romney has not suggested cutting government salaries or adjusting it to national average. In some cases government employees are paid more than in the private sector. How about an across-the-board cut? It is taxpayers’ money, Mr. Romney.

Please Mr. Romney, try to see what it is like to be poor. Go to an unemployment line and borrow a man’s resume from anyone over 50, and use it yourself under the other guy’s conditions. Then, you can see what you are trying to do, to those who worked all their lives at a disadvantage. Perhaps, then, you can understand what it is to be poor, and then being robbed by the government too, as you are proposing.
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In Reference to:
DAVID ESPO, AP article at --

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTUl0cCza-peaS7XCIPp0tujb6Tw?docId=1ed5b0fd1c014eab9f9cf916bcc10cbb