Voting lines
Thought I'd post this email chain between myself and a co-worker (un-named).
(In reply to an email regarding our company's policy to pay voters for their time spent away from work and in the polling lines.)
Me: lol @ our state not offering it. Also LOL @ most being only 2 hours when people are spending 6-8 hours sometimes in line.
Co-worker: I know. It's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. It's amazing how people will think of anything to get extra money. Sometimes I wish I was like that because I would probably have a lot more money, but I would probably be very disliked. Ha-ha.
Me: Wait, do you think it's ridiculous that people are actually using this? Did I read that wrong?
Co-worker: lol. I dunno. Maybe I'm not reading it right either. I think it's ridiculous that people EXPECT to get paid for voting.
Me: I don't. Look at it this way. Say you live in Virginia or Pennsylvania or one of the other states where lines are ridiculously long. (We're talking about 6 hours in some places.) So you get up and get in line at, say, 7 am when you have to be at work at 8am, not expecting a line. Do you give up your chance to vote (which has been paid for by the blood of our fathers) and possibly make a change in this nation, or do you give up 4 hours (or more) of your paycheck? It's an unfair choice to ask the American voter to make. You shouldn't have to pay to vote, voting is a right, something which NO ONE should be able to take away from us, whether it is by telling us no outright or asking us to make a choice between wages and our democratic freedoms.
Co-worker: No. lol im confused now. I think im explaining what I'm trying to say wrong.
WTF? It's things like this that really make me wonder about Americans as a whole.
Regardless. My vote for Obama is cast. I'll be sitting in front of CNN for the rest of the night when I get home from work in the ardent hope that the system isn't really broken.
(In reply to an email regarding our company's policy to pay voters for their time spent away from work and in the polling lines.)
Me: lol @ our state not offering it. Also LOL @ most being only 2 hours when people are spending 6-8 hours sometimes in line.
Co-worker: I know. It's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. It's amazing how people will think of anything to get extra money. Sometimes I wish I was like that because I would probably have a lot more money, but I would probably be very disliked. Ha-ha.
Me: Wait, do you think it's ridiculous that people are actually using this? Did I read that wrong?
Co-worker: lol. I dunno. Maybe I'm not reading it right either. I think it's ridiculous that people EXPECT to get paid for voting.
Me: I don't. Look at it this way. Say you live in Virginia or Pennsylvania or one of the other states where lines are ridiculously long. (We're talking about 6 hours in some places.) So you get up and get in line at, say, 7 am when you have to be at work at 8am, not expecting a line. Do you give up your chance to vote (which has been paid for by the blood of our fathers) and possibly make a change in this nation, or do you give up 4 hours (or more) of your paycheck? It's an unfair choice to ask the American voter to make. You shouldn't have to pay to vote, voting is a right, something which NO ONE should be able to take away from us, whether it is by telling us no outright or asking us to make a choice between wages and our democratic freedoms.
Co-worker: No. lol im confused now. I think im explaining what I'm trying to say wrong.
WTF? It's things like this that really make me wonder about Americans as a whole.
Regardless. My vote for Obama is cast. I'll be sitting in front of CNN for the rest of the night when I get home from work in the ardent hope that the system isn't really broken.