Friday, April 24, 2009
Hicks From the Sticks / Legislature / Politics Another Call to Cut Planned Parenthood Funding
Posted by Pete Kotz on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:26 PM
It may all seem a little rash, considering the video was heavily edited and we really don't know what transpired. But the bigger problem is whether any other agency -- be it public or private -- can handle the work provided by the nation's preeminent reproductive services clinic. But that's not stopping Johnson from leaping headfirst into the slash and burn camp:
A bill before the General Assembly, SB 470, would put family planning providers under closer state scrutiny. Rep. Bill Dunn, R-Knoxville, told me, 'This bill could keep Tennessee tax dollars out of the hands of abortionists and people who protect the identity of child rapists.'After Planned Parenthood's performance on Rose's video, an investigation is in order.
And not another cent of taxpayer money should go to Planned Parenthood. Enough is enough.
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There it is again, the same thing I mentioned yesterday. The first word used is "abortionist." The actual issue of not reporting a fictional felony, the thing that is actually illegal, is an afterthought. The only thing that would make them happier is if a girl had actually been abused. And forced to keep the baby, of course.
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I say we force every woman who ever finds herself pregnant in America to have the baby. Regardless of the risk of the pregnancy.
How many new Americans would we have on our hands then? Millions? Billions?
Anyone care to guess?
Oh yeah. And those same children should NOT be allowed to have parents drawing food stamps or medicaid or public housing.
They get nothing. They have the baby. And then they are on their own. That will show them. Jesus said they don't get SHIT!!! Damn sinners. Having babies out of wedlock. That'll show them alright. No taxpayer money for hungry babies. To hell with them! Once they are born, they should get a job and pay taxes like the rest of us!!
Is this creep going to hospitals and faking pregnancy? Is the state legislature going to conduct an inquisition against all health providers, setting up stings to cut off funding?
Let's see. You can't give an aspirin without parental consent, but abortion is OK. What hypocrites you are!!
War on Poverty Revisited
by Thomas Sowell (August 17, 2004)
August 20th marks the 40th anniversary of one of the major turning points in American social history. That was the date on which President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation creating his "War on Poverty" program in 1964.
Never had there been such a comprehensive program to tackle poverty at its roots, to offer more opportunities to those starting out in life, to rehabilitate those who had fallen by the wayside, and to make dependent people self-supporting. Its intentions were the best. But we know what road is paved with good intentions.
The War on Poverty represented the crowning triumph of the liberal vision of society -- and of government programs as the solution to social problems. The disastrous consequences that followed have made the word "liberal" so much of a political liability that today even candidates with long left-wing track records have evaded or denied that designation.
In the liberal vision, slums bred crime. But brand-new government housing projects almost immediately became new centers of crime and quickly degenerated into new slums. Many of these projects later had to be demolished. Unfortunately, the assumptions behind those projects were not demolished, but live on in other disastrous programs, such as Section 8 housing.
Rates of teenage pregnancy and venereal disease had been going down for years before the new 1960s attitudes toward sex spread rapidly through the schools, helped by War on Poverty money. These downward trends suddenly reversed and skyrocketed.
The murder rate had also been going down, for decades, and in 1960 was just under half of what it had been in 1934. Then the new 1960s policies toward curing the "root causes" of crime and creating new "rights" for criminals began. Rates of violent crime, including murder, skyrocketed.
The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.
Government social programs such as the War on Poverty were considered a way to reduce urban riots. Such programs increased sharply during the 1960s. So did urban riots. Later, during the Reagan administration, which was denounced for not promoting social programs, there were far fewer urban riots.
Neither the media nor most of our educational institutions question the assumptions behind the War on Poverty. Even conservatives often attribute much of the progress that has been made by lower-income people to these programs.
For example, the usually insightful quarterly magazine City Journal says in its current issue: "Beginning in the mid-sixties, the condition of most black Americans improved markedly."
That is completely false and misleading.
The economic rise of blacks began decades earlier, before any of the legislation and policies that are credited with producing that rise. The continuation of the rise of blacks out of poverty did not -- repeat, did not -- accelerate during the 1960s.
The poverty rate among black families fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent in 1960, during an era of virtually no major civil rights legislation or anti-poverty programs. It dropped another 17 percentage points during the decade of the 1960s and one percentage point during the 1970s, but this continuation of the previous trend was neither unprecedented nor something to be arbitrarily attributed to the programs like the War on Poverty.
In various skilled trades, the incomes of blacks relative to whites more than doubled between 1936 and 1959 -- that is, before the magic 1960s decade when supposedly all progress began. The rise of blacks in professional and other high-level occupations was greater in the five years preceding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than in the five years afterwards.
While some good things did come out of the 1960s, as out of many other decades, so did major social disasters that continue to plague us today. Many of those disasters began quite clearly during the 1960s.
But what are mere facts compared to a heady vision? Liberal assumptions -- "two Americas," for example -- are being recycled this election year, even by candidates who evade the "liberal" label.
Thomas Sowell has published a large volume of writing. His dozen books, as well as numerous articles and essays, cover a wide range of topics, from classic economic theory to judicial activism, from civil rights to choosing the right college.
Please contact your local newspaper editor if you want to read the THOMAS SOWELL column in your hometown paper.
Homicides in the US by blacks is 52% of the total over the last 30 years????
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm
Evidence of Planned Parenthood covering up sexual abuse isn't from "one undercover video." See more videos from Arizona and Indiana at http://tinyurl.com/dz9mnu.
Awesome, here come the racist gamer nerds from Stormfront, proving that having shitty politics is a package deal.
Just the facts. Results of the War on Poverty. In liberalland results don't matter, it is the intention that counts.
The video in question, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMlrAj4v4J4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecreativeminorityreport%2Ecom%2F2009%2F04%2Fabortionists%2Dcalling%2Dlila%2Drose%2Dliar%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded
is at best misleading about the clinic personnel's duty to report child sexual abuse.
The statute referenced in the video regarding a health care professional's duty to report does not define child sexual abuse to include minors over the age of 13 unless the sexual act is committed against the child by a parent, guardian, relative, person residing in the child's home, or other person responsible for the care and custody of the child. See,Tennessee Code Annotated § 37-1-601(3)(D).
Of course, it is hardly surprising that someone who would lie about being 14 years old and pregnant would misrepresent the law.
Herbison,
Do you feel the same way about undercover stings for stolen property, drugs, or corruption? Or is infanticide where you draw the line?
Sowell, as usual, paraphrases someone else's work. This time he gave the"Cliff Notes" version of The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, written 39 years earlier by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Moynahan
from wiki
"Moynihan's report[3] was seen by people on the left as "blaming the victim",[4] a slogan coined by William Ryan.[5] He was also seen as propagating the views of racists,[6] because much of the press coverage of his reports focused on the discussion of children being born out of wedlock. Despite Moynihan's warnings, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program had the "Man out of the house rule." Critics said that the nation was paying poor women to throw their husbands out of the house. Moynihan supported Richard Nixon's idea of a Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI). Daniel Patrick Moynihan had significant discussions concerning a Basic Income Guarantee with Russell B. Long and Louis O. Kelso.
After the 1994 Republican sweep of Congress, Moynihan agreed that something had to be done about the welfare system possibly encouraging women to raise their children without fathers: "The Republicans are saying we have a helluva problem, and we do""
