It is a sick society that says government should stay out of the lives of its citizens - unless those citizens are pregnant women.
It is a sick society that says women must be forced to carry a pregnancy to term even if that pregnancy might kill her.
It is a sick society that insists that women be forced to give birth to deformed children or a child that will die shortly after birth.
It is a sick society that insists on children being born, but refuses to make certain those children have food, shelter, or health care after it is born.
And it is a sick society that refuses to prosecute a man for rape, then refuses to allow the woman impregnated in that rape to abort the fetus, then further insists on parental rights for the rapist after the child is born.
Abortion is NOT murder - regardless how much religious fundamentalists insist it is.
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Personal Responsibility
Folks on the right say that what we need is not government programs, but more people taking responsibility for their own actions.
To me it isn't a matter of being responsible for our own actions. To me it is a matter of priorities, and where we direct government spending.
Do we spend a trillion dollars on a jet plane that doesn't work, or do we put that money to providing education for more Americans?
Do we spend a trillion dollars upgrading our nuclear missiles, or spend that making sure Americans have health care and don't die of preventable diseases?
Do we put billions into tax credits for already very profitable companies, or do we use that money to make sure children in America don't go without food or a place to live?
Do we cut taxes primarily for the wealthiest people in the country, giving them billions of dollars, or do we use that money to ensure than retirees will have social security and medicare for the foreseeable future?
To me it isn't a matter of being responsible for our own actions. To me it is a matter of priorities, and where we direct government spending.
Do we spend a trillion dollars on a jet plane that doesn't work, or do we put that money to providing education for more Americans?
Do we spend a trillion dollars upgrading our nuclear missiles, or spend that making sure Americans have health care and don't die of preventable diseases?
Do we put billions into tax credits for already very profitable companies, or do we use that money to make sure children in America don't go without food or a place to live?
Do we cut taxes primarily for the wealthiest people in the country, giving them billions of dollars, or do we use that money to ensure than retirees will have social security and medicare for the foreseeable future?
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Black Lives Matter Protesters in Chicago
I've seen some right wing folks whining about Black Lives Matter protesters causing a Trump campaign rally in Chicago to be cancelled. Interesting since a while back BLM protesters disrupted a Bernie Sanders campaign event. The difference was that in the Sanders case, no one was arrested, and no one was beaten up.
Meanwhile at Trump rallies, peaceful protesters are beaten and arrested. Hell, reporters are beaten and arrested at Trump rallies. Beyond that, Mr. Trump has both tacitly and explicitly excused the violence on the part of his followers. His followers have even beaten up people who they though might be Latinx or Muslim - even when the people being beaten were peacefully minding their own business. Trump says his followers are enthusiastic and 'want to make America great again'. Sorry, but it looks to me like they want to make America bigoted again, and Trump is cheering them on.
It is also funny, since the right wingers seem to attribute the BLM protesters to the Sanders campaign. Funny, since the majority of blacks seem to support Hillary. Even in Michigan they were two to one for Hillary, and in the South they have been four to one for HIllary.
But even when they have been peaceful, the protesters are called violent and thugs, and Trump says they probably deserved being beaten. Can the right wing see or tell the truth about anything?
Meanwhile at Trump rallies, peaceful protesters are beaten and arrested. Hell, reporters are beaten and arrested at Trump rallies. Beyond that, Mr. Trump has both tacitly and explicitly excused the violence on the part of his followers. His followers have even beaten up people who they though might be Latinx or Muslim - even when the people being beaten were peacefully minding their own business. Trump says his followers are enthusiastic and 'want to make America great again'. Sorry, but it looks to me like they want to make America bigoted again, and Trump is cheering them on.
It is also funny, since the right wingers seem to attribute the BLM protesters to the Sanders campaign. Funny, since the majority of blacks seem to support Hillary. Even in Michigan they were two to one for Hillary, and in the South they have been four to one for HIllary.
But even when they have been peaceful, the protesters are called violent and thugs, and Trump says they probably deserved being beaten. Can the right wing see or tell the truth about anything?
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