reply to post by reluctantpawn
Unfortunately it is now socially acceptable to give birth out of wedlock, remain unmarried, and wait for others to offer assistance. These in
my opinion are part of the cause of the downfall of our society. Yes they can and should be taught these things even in our school systems but it
seems that now we must accept any decision by an individual as the right one due to political correctness. But I digress . .
I always digress. Everything is connected to everything. The 6 degrees of consanguinity. I have a different perspective on out of wedlock children. I
believe it is really due to the END of the institution of marriage. I’m not going to recite the history of marriage, but I will say this much:
marriage was a property right in the man. To rape a married woman in the middle ages in England was a trespass on the property rights of the husband.
World War Two brought million of women into defense work. The richest man I know got his start with the $5,000 his wife saved during the war. He
parlayed that and 50 years of hard work into $15 m. It was his bootstrap.
Then came the “pill” and women were: free at last, thank God A’mighty, free at last! Just as some men now use Viagra so women used the pill to
have sex without incurring pregnancy.
And last, no-fault divorce. We mocked the Soviets once upon a time when we learned they had no-fault divorce. Now we have it in all states but New
York and frankly, I believe it is the better way. Before ‘no-fault” you had to have “fault” to get a divorce. That was the law. Some of the
“faults” were, adultery, desertion, insanity, a felony conviction, impotency so the marriage had not been consummated, fraud, i.e., lying about
your assets or failure to reveal venereal disease, and cruelty, originally physical only but in California, mental was added which morphed into “no
fault” divorce under the old law.
Rather than lament their condition, we need to give single parent families - usually the female - as much help as she needs to give her children as
good a chance in life as possible. High quality day care is one thing we need. A day off once a week is another thing that would help a woman raising
a child(ren) alone. You cannot do well on duty 24/7 for 365 days a year. And a decent place in which to live and raise children. We could do all this
if we wanted. We just don’t have the will. Or the conviction.
We certainly must do something about the immigration issue and it must start with us. Ignorance of the masses will only breed more
discontentment and more blame from the ill informed. We must reverse the downward spiral of our service economy and social misdirection. I
unfortunately am starting to believe that the govt. may want it to play out this way for whatever reason they may have. Yes I agree we need campaign
finance reform As I posted earlier we should also find agreeable limits for lobbying.
First, we can’t force 12 million people out of the country. Recall from history it took the famously efficient Germans from 1939 to 1945 to move 6
million Jews into death camps, usually by train. I like to remind that Amtrak doesn’t run to Mexico! And little known is that IBM helped the Germans
make a data base on every Jew in Germany. It helps if you know where they live.
Next, it must be assumed most illegals here are performing honest labor which benefits all of us. Sure, it is anti-union, but Nixon and Reagan killed
unions long ago. And the middle class which was built on good paying blue collar jobs too. But alas, we cannot run the clock backwards. OTOH, making
them “legal” can actually reduce the adverse impact on wages that being illegal creates. But the R&Fs don’t want that and who funds the
candidates?
Reversing our society is impossible. Altering its present course is possible. We’ll soon end building cars in Detroit. Obviously, the foreign car
makers found it was cheaper for them to move to Smyrna, TN, (Nissan) or to Georgetown, KY, (Toyota) or to Marysville, OH, (Honda) or to Flat Rock, MI.
(Mazda). There is a different work ethic in Smalltown, USA. I don’t like that but I can’t change it.
it’s not the “government” per se. Unfortunately, we loosely refer to the current administration as the “government.” By so doing we lump
in all the 2 million bureaucrats who do the day to day job of governance. The DoT highway engineers. The USDA National Park rangers, meat inspectors
and so on. I am convinced that Republicans are purposely hindering the deliverance of good services so that the public will become so disenchanted
they will agree to privatizing all the government. Say hello Halliburton! Ken Brown and FEMA are part of my proof.
Why an “agreeable limit" on lobbyists? Do you want a limited case of small pox? Or only to lose half a limb? Lobbyist most nearly resemble pimps to
me. What good can come from pimping? Did you know it takes 18 pages to lay out all the taxes the US Government imposes, but 2,000 pages of rules and
exceptions to those who are supposed to pay those taxes? Every new president first says, “Let’s reform the tax code.” And each time, we get more
exceptions to paying the taxes.
You’ve heard of the “revolving door” where former Congressmen and their staffs go to work for the very companies they were supposed to regulate?
How retiring generals and admirals get huge “consultant” contacts with Lockheed-Martin, General Dynamic and Being? Often working in the same area
they were while in the service. How dumb can we get?
Did you know that the 535 (+5) Congresspersons had 38,000 employees in 2000? I don’t know how many today. Should not 38,000 people be able to tell a
congressperson all he or she needs to know to cast an intelligent vote on any issue before them? Each committee has its own staff as does each
Congressperson. The +5 are the delegates from Puerto Rico, District of Columbia, American Virgin Islands, Guam and the Pacific Trust Territories. They
have been given by law full participation in all matters in the House except they cannot vote on the final passage of a bill.
We do not need lobbyists. If you think Butch Cunningham is the only one who took money for votes, I think you are too optimistic. When the US Attorney
in San Diego ignored Gonzales and was about to put those who had bribed Butch in jail, Bush43 fired her. Jack Abramoff gave up only enough people to
get his sentence reduced.
You cannot be a little bit pregnant. We don’t need lobbyists. It should be a felony crime.
[edit on 12/31/2007 by donwhite]