Hey Millennial! Time to stop letting others define your fate
By Ruta Sevo
Millennials — young people between the ages of 18 and 31 — are a powerful voting bloc. Yet 80 percent of this generation did not step up and vote in 2010. This election, there are compelling reasons why millennials should vote.
This election is about birth control. Seventy percent of millennials believe that sex outside of marriage is morally acceptable, and 84 percent of those who are single say that avoiding pregnancy is important to them. Yet legislators are rapidly taking the country back to a dark age for women, and for the men who love them, by limiting sex education, contraception, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, abortion and medical support. Sex education is so bad that we have male legislators who are not sure where babies come from and who debate what kind of rape is OK. Too many lawmakers want to spend time on mandatory vaginal probes instead of repairing roads and bridges.
Sevo is a consultant and member of American Association of University Women. She lives in Fairfax.
October 15, 2012 - 6:16 AM
Good points, but those are only some of the reasons, younger people should be beating a path to the election precincts. Just remember, your freedom was yours to lose and you give it away when you don’t vote.
Romney, with his characteristic flip-flopping views (or claims), his appalling secrecy regarding his plans, and his Cayman Islands tax avoidance accounts, is the most transparently bad choice U.S. voters have been offered in modern history. Let’s hope that enough people will recognize the signs before the election.
“Cayman Islands tax avoidance accounts, is the most transparently bad choice U.S. voters have been OFFERED in modern history”
Really?
“John Kerry’s net worth was around $1.2 billion in 2003, the year he began campaigning for the presidency. Not only does his immense wealth eclipse Mitt Romney’s, but as uncovered by the Boston Globe, Kerry also made use of offshore bank accounts. However, unlike the Romney’s, the Kerry’s refused to release tax documents that would show whether they held any other offshore bank accounts”
“Even worse, John Kerry was caught hiding a $7 million dollar yacht in Rhode Island to avoid paying Massachusetts taxes. By doing so, he avoided paying nearly $500,000 in taxes”
Is this the guy that is helping obama with his debates?
http://thekansascitian.blogspot.com/2012/07/john-kerry-dilemma.html
#3 – How dare you present facts into this, bohica! No one cares about Kerry’s financial shenanigans. He’s a lib…he same criteria doesn’t apply.
Oh, so you guys can go back in history anytime you like but liberals get called out for it. Same old double standard. Got it.
If you want to drag a wife’s finances into this, why didn’t McCain? Is Mrs. Romney fair game too?
Michael jabs “No one cares about Kerry’s financial shenanigans” when just the other day Michael said…”But Bush is gone…you need to get over him and deal with the NOW.
I’m simply tired of excuses being made because so-and-so did it in the past.
Comment by Michael — October 12, 2012 @ 10:18 am”
Could you make up your mind?
#7 – Obviously you missed it, Sandi, but there was no reference to overlooking Kerry because it happened in the past.
He was overlooked by the Libs because he’s a Liberal.
I love to watch you dig, please continue.