More people bad, less people good.
From the Wall Street Journal…
One of the more curious items in the $825 billion House "stimulus" is $87 billion to help states with Medicaid, specifically including an expansion of family-planning services. The implication is that more people mean less economic growth.
Following a White House meeting with President Obama on Friday, Republican John Boehner, the House Minority Leader, asked how spending millions of dollars on birth control will help stimulate the economy. On Sunday, George Stephanopoulos of ABC's "This Week" repeated the question to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who responded that "family planning services reduce costs."
She added: "The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now, and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help states meet their financial needs. One of those -- one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception -- will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
Why go part way? If birth control is good, if abortion is the cornerstone of our system of government, if euthanasia is the wave of the future and the “humane” choice why stop there? Think of the money we could save on disability insurance if we just euthanized permanently disabled workers! How about forced sterilization for people with sub-par intelligence? Heck, maybe every American should be required on an annual basis to submit to testing and questioning by the government and prove that they still have worth to our society!
This is dangerous stuff, both for the moral issues raised by reducing human life to economic units as well as the looming issue of the Social Security system running out of money, too few workers paying in compared to the elderly taking out, etc. Europe is running out of people to work and to pay taxes so they are being forced to import workers from overseas, many of whom are Muslim and that is having a predictable and ominous impact on their society. So our new leadership in Washington seems bent on running us down the same road of economic ruin and societal disintegration that Europe is on.
This is the brave new world we were promised?
3 comments:
Well, when women decided to stop staying home and taking care of their families, this drove wages down, so now even if a mother does stay home, her husband does not make as much as he would 50 years ago (adjusted for inflation), so she is often forced to supplement her husband's income with state funding. And when we decided that just about any reason is a good reason for divorce, and that sex should be enjoyed whenever and with whomever we want, this resulted in many single mothers, who also are forced to supplement their income with state funding.
But morality and economy have nothing to do with each other, right?
Arthur,
Excellent blog! I enjoy the bold stance that you take on many issues, it is needed today.
I have left a response to your comment over at Grace in Bloom (Bethany W.'s blog), which resolves your previous view on the RPW. I would be glad to link the comment to the post you did on it in Sept. if you feel that it would be beneficial discussion. Thanks again for what you're doing and I look forward to visiting you here often. Blessings and peace,
Bob
April,
It is amazing how much we see theology intersecting with politics and economics. I don't think that Christ intended to establish an earthly kingdom but we see the devastating impact of a secular worldview on public policy.
Bob,
Thanks for stopping by, please do so on a regular basis. I replied back to your post, I didn't find that it really resolved anything though!
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