How Much is Your Vote Worth?

See, this is the kind of thing I was talking about on yesterday’s podcast. People in American take their liberties too lightly, because they have never had to fight for them. They fail to appreciate the struggle our Founding Fathers went through just to cast a ballot, just for one voice to be heard. And to show the most flippant attitude towards our freedoms, I give you New York University students:

Two-thirds say they’ll do it for a year’s tuition. And for a few, even an iPod touch will do.

That’s what NYU students said they’d take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a recent survey by an NYU journalism class found.

Only 20 percent said they’d exchange their vote for an iPod touch.

But 66 percent said they’d forfeit their vote for a free ride to NYU. And half said they’d give up the right to vote forever for $1 million.

These morons would give up a freedom men fought and died for, and they would do it willingly for an iPod Touch. Is this an outrage to anyone besides me? You can start from nothing in America and work your way to the top of the food chain, but the children at NYU would give up the right to vote for a $400 hunk of plastic and code.

At least two people there have a brain:

Other students wrote that they were disgusted by the thought.

“I would be reversing history — a lot of people fought so that every citizen could be enfranchised,” said a female in her second year at the Stern School of Business.

One CAS junior went even further, writing that “anyone who’d sell his lifelong right to vote should be deported.”