01-25-2013, 11:58 PM
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Economy and Jobs remain GOP's #1 Priority
errr.. whut.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2552597.html
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Boehner said he will make it a national priority to "help make abortion a relic of the past."
"Let that be one of our most fundamental goals this year," he said.
The March for Life attracted a diverse crowd of young and old protesters from across the country. Hundreds of parents had bundled up their infants and toddlers and strapped protest signs to their strollers. Michael Kennedy, 33, and his wife Bethany, who is pregnant, drove their four children down from Westerly, Rhode Island to stand in 20-degree weather on the Mall.
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Well there's a winning issue of extreme national priority.
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01-26-2013, 08:38 AM
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It's what they run on so they can take office and pass scores of abortion bills.
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01-26-2013, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by fredsanford
It's what they run on so they can take office and pass scores of abortion bills.
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Well, if you want economic impact, we are short somewhere between 30-40 million taxpayers/entrepreneurs/union members/soup kitchen volunteers/internet startups, etc all in the name of self-indulgence.
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01-26-2013, 08:25 PM
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Now that over 55,000,000 American children have been killed in abortion mills since 1974, we are missing an entire generation of consumers, tax payers and Social Security contributors. Most of these murdered Americans would have been in their prime working years and their children would be growing up also. Think of a thirty year war with fiftyfive million deaths. This is what has been done to our country.
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01-26-2013, 08:34 PM
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Well, Obama's victory was all about lady parts. Why can't the Republicans make it about the babies ?
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01-26-2013, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by wargunfan
Now that over 55,000,000 American children have been killed in abortion mills since 1974, we are missing an entire generation of consumers, tax payers and Social Security contributors. Most of these murdered Americans would have been in their prime working years and their children would be growing up also. Think of a thirty year war with fiftyfive million deaths. This is what has been done to our country.
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If they were here, pubs would send their jobs to China.
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01-26-2013, 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by MichiGator2002
Well, if you want economic impact, we are short somewhere between 30-40 million taxpayers/entrepreneurs/union members/soup kitchen volunteers/internet startups, etc all in the name of self-indulgence.
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The majority of abortions are for poor people and the numbers fall as you go up economic classes. So assuming the mothers kept the kids, we would very likely have more poverty, more crime, more people on government aid etc. I am not saying the trade off isn't worth the lives saved or that being born poor doesn't give you the right to life, only that your utopian vision vs the actual cycle of poverty and crime many of these people would have been born into makes it a bit less rosy than you paint it.
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01-27-2013, 08:49 AM
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By scores of abortion bills that have been passed, the above poster obviously thinks that scores equals one (partial-birth abortion).
By jobs bills, the overhyped lawyers in DC mean more lobbyists who can comprise the 1%.
CORRUPTION RULES!!!!!
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01-27-2013, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by oragator1
The majority of abortions are for poor people and the numbers fall as you go up economic classes. So assuming the mothers kept the kids, we would very likely have more poverty, more crime, more people on government aid etc. I am not saying the trade off isn't worth the lives saved or that being born poor doesn't give you the right to life, only that your utopian vision vs the actual cycle of poverty and crime many of these people would have been born into makes it a bit less rosy than you paint it.
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Piffle. Poor people reproducing and taking responsibility for their children didn't slow or thwart the march of humanity up to 1973. In fact, it largely was the march of humanity.
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01-27-2013, 11:12 AM
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Still waiting for 1 job to be produced from their 2010 winning strategy (ploy)
Their base really sets such a low standard for them that they need not do anything worthy of praise
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01-27-2013, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by wargunfan
Now that over 55,000,000 American children have been killed in abortion mills since 1974, we are missing an entire generation of consumers, tax payers and Social Security contributors. Most of these murdered Americans would have been in their prime working years and their children would be growing up also. Think of a thirty year war with fiftyfive million deaths. This is what has been done to our country.
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whether you agree with abortion or not, we're hardly missing an entire generation of anything.
and seriously, is that really the argument here? "Boy, if we just had another 55 million people, our economy would be better?"
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01-27-2013, 12:00 PM
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The future of Medicare and SS would be much better with those people. Basic math.
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01-27-2013, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by JerseyGator01
The future of Medicare and SS would be much better with those people. Basic math.
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Yep. Any pyramid scheme requires the base to continue to be larger than all the above levels.
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01-27-2013, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by JerseyGator01
By scores of abortion bills that have been passed, the above poster obviously thinks that scores equals one (partial-birth abortion).
By jobs bills, the overhyped lawyers in DC mean more lobbyists who can comprise the 1%.
CORRUPTION RULES!!!!!
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There have been 160 abortion bills passed by the winners of the 2010 elections.
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01-27-2013, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by JerseyGator01
The future of Medicare and SS would be much better with those people. Basic math.
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And basic math also says that they on average come from a societal class that takes out more than it puts in on the whole.
Again that's not to say that they are any less deserving of life than the rest of us, it's just not a valid argument avaunt abortion.
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01-27-2013, 05:12 PM
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Even if you distributed them exactly evenly among all incomes - which would be the best possible case scenario - you wouldn't end up with a significantly different economic situation than we have today. "More people" doesn't mean "more money" or "more jobs," it just means "more people."
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01-27-2013, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by fredsanford
If they were here, pubs would send their jobs to China.
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Has Obama fixed the trade imbalance with China yet? You do know it was one of his 2012 campaign premisses.
So why are you even talking about the Pubs, blaming them for Obama's lack of cojones in dealing with the Chinese and their unfair trade practices?
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01-27-2013, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by bluelang
Even if you distributed them exactly evenly among all incomes - which would be the best possible case scenario - you wouldn't end up with a significantly different economic situation than we have today. "More people" doesn't mean "more money" or "more jobs," it just means "more people."
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Even if the here and now unemployment, market, currency, etc were the same -- which I don't concede in the least, I find it shortsighted as it is cynical -- by definition you would actually have the as-is state of our entitlements better off. More new investors to take from to pay old ones.
The blood toll paid for personal convenience and sexual license has had collateral effects, and economic impact is certainly a major one. 40 million "cancelled adults" let's call them, aren't all just consumers, after all, and they certainly aren't all presumptively broken people, no matter what their parents' rationalizations might have been.
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01-27-2013, 09:57 PM
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I understand the strong feelings on abortion - both sides. But, really? This is what they are going to make the highest priority?
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