Should the unemployed be denied the right to vote? Should the unemployed be denied the right to vote?

I just saw a poll, one I'm blocked from replying to, that asked if people who are able bodied and unemployed should be allowed the privilege of voting. ( some can't handle the out spoken)

Our Constitution of course, says that voting is a right, not a privilege. It can be denied to convicted felons, but other than that it's the most fundamental of our rights. Our revolution was about taxation without representation, and it wasn't the taxes they were bitching about. It was being denied a voice in governance. It's incoherently foolish to think any government could stand for even a day without taxation of some sort.

I suppose I could speculate on what purpose stripping citizens of their rights based on their employment status would serve, but that's pretty blatantly obvious. I could ask where such a "slippery slope" could lead, but again the conclusion that it leads us towards political rights only for the wealthy is too obvious to merit discussion.

So instead I'll ask what does it tell you about people who would make such a heinous attack on our constitution and our citizenry? What is the character of someone who would apportion fundamental rights on the basis of temporary employment situations? Especially at a time when unemployment is high and, due to no fault of their own, there are over 15 million of our citizens who could be stripped of their rights under any such proposal.

Who would pass judgment on our right to vote? Perhaps we could have an interrogation panel outside the polling stations who would review the work history of every voter as they arrived? Of course corporations could filter the vote at will with their hiring and firing practices, they could fire all the democrats October 15th and rehire them the second Wednesday of November or whatever variation of that complies with the wording of the law. Maybe it would be more covert than that, maybe we could rat out our neighbors for being lazy and have their rights stripped quietly by the local neighborhood watch groups.

This is either the most poorly thought out idea I've ever heard, or it's the most vicious attack on representative government to ever rear it's head in American politics. I would prefer that it were the first, but the reality of today's political climate is good evidence for the latter.