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The War on Women and Population Control

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In a December 30 article in the New York Times, Heather Timmons and Sruthi Gottipati reported on the reaction of women in India to the recent brutal gang rape that killed a young woman in New Delhi and to the cultural conditions that allow for such brutality. The article contained this paragraph:

After years of aborting female fetuses, a practice that is still on the rise in some areas because of a cultural preference for male children, India has about 15 million “extra” men between the ages of 15 and 35, the range when men are most likely to commit crimes. By 2020, those “extra” men will have doubled to 30 million.

After admitting that the source of the problem is the aborting of female babies, we are informed that the reason for it and the criminal problem that ensues are due to males: “a cultural preference for male children,” and “15 million ‘extra’ men.” Really? I submit that the problem is not 15 million extra men. The problem is over 15 million missing women, who were violently destroyed while in the sanctity of their mothers’ wombs.

Rational and knowledgeable demographers have long warned that the coercive and brutal government programs, in which unborn children are savagely and often forcibly sacrificed to the false god of Population Control, would lead to an imbalance of male to female children. Contrary to population-control propaganda that such an imbalance would lead to women and girls being treated far better for being more rare, rational demographers have long and accurately predicted the present reality of horrendous treatment of girls and women when there are too few women compared to men: the raping, bride sharing, bride stealing, sexual slavery, human trafficking, and warfare that would ensue. The “cultural preference for male children” contributes to the problem when families are forbidden by law or otherwise coerced to have no more than one, two, or few children.

So in the real world there exists a genuine war on women born of liberal policies. That real war contrasts starkly with the one concocted by Democrats that consists of a thirty-year-old, third-year law student–who could expect to make $160,000 a year upon her graduation–not being provided free contraception by a Catholic university in violation of its core principles. And the real war is violent: the violence of abortion and sterilization committed against the mother, the violence of abortion committed against the baby, and of course the resultant raping, bride sharing, bride stealing, sexual slavery, human trafficking, and warfare. Throughout Asia female babies are disproportionately aborted, especially in China with its one-child government policy “complete with forced abortions, involuntary sterilization, kidnapping of ‘illegal’ children” (wonder what happens to them), “and other brutal tactics” with the help of United States taxpayer dollars provided by the Obama Administration (“UN Slammed for Its Forced Abortions in China Using U.S. Funds” by Alex Newman in The New American).

How many Americans would stand by and allow the government to forcibly abort a child and sterilize a woman after she had already had one child. And yet, now that the United States is under a Democratic administration again, that of the radically pro-abortion President Barrack Obama, we United States taxpayers help to support just such carnage through population-control programs of the United Nations and other organizations abroad, not to mention the sweeping work of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States, here at home. As I wrote in an earlier post “Can a Catholic Be a Democrat”:

So the Democratic Party uses our tax dollars to support Planned Parenthood ($487.4 million in the last reported year 2009-2010), the largest abortion provider in the country, founded by the Democrat darling and racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger, who had a special enthusiasm for aborting black babies. (Sanger even addressed a meeting of the Lady’s Auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan, fully consistent with the racist history of the Democratic Party.) But don’t worry about Democratic funding of Planned Parenthood, because President Obama assures us that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms for poor women. Another Democrat lie. Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms; they commit abortions. And they make millions of dollars a year doing so. Here is one case in which the Democrats do not denounce making a profit. And Planned Parenthood also gave $12 million to re-elect President Obama. So, they get nearly $500 million a year from the Democratic government and donate $12 million of it back to re-elect the Democratic president. How . . . mutually beneficial.

By the way, recently released information indicates that Planned Parenthood received $542 million of taxpayer money for fiscal year 2011-12 from the Obama government to violently kill 333,964 babies in their mothers’ wombs. I wonder who the Planned Parenthood folks voted for.

And so much of this is justified by another liberal lie, that of overpopulation. The overpopulation lie has been so pounded into the heads of people over the last several decades that we have come to accept it as a given when all evidence points to the contrary. Overpopulation is just one more in the great mesh of lies that liberals have woven to blot out the light and subject all of humanity to a dreadful darkness of fear, from which the liberals promise to rescue us as long as we grant them ever more power and control over our lives. Think environmentalism, man-made global warming . . . (And keep in mind that one of Al Gore’s homes uses twice the energy in one month that the rest of us use in one year. Also consider his recent sale of his network to Al Jazeera for a big profit. Do you think he really believes the stuff that he and other Democrats have been shoveling at all the rest of us?)

So here is the truth: Human beings have not and will not overpopulate the world. Proving that to you is beyond the confines of this post; so do your own homework with just a click of the mouse at Population Research Institute and/or Overpopulation is a Myth. Get informed. Remember, ignorance is one of the liberals’ most potent tools for enslaving people. (Just to give you one thing to consider: there is no relationship between population density and poverty or prosperity except that a community must reach a certain level of population density before division of labor, which raises the standard of living, is feasible. Some of the most densely populated regions and countries are some of the richest, and some of the least densely populated areas are some of the poorest. What really matters is the political and economic makeup of the place. Generally, those with the least controlling governments and the freest markets are the richest, those with the most controlling governments and shackled markets are the poorest.)

There is plenty of room for all the babies. So, get married first, and open yourself to the result of your loving relationship, more human beings graced with a supernatural destiny. Do not be afraid. Fear (like ignorance) is one of the great weapons liberals use to drive us into bondage. But according to the One who could not be vanquished by the lie, “the truth will set you free.” So shed your fear, take personal responsibility for your life, and come out from the darkness of liberal tyranny and into the light. Live in the light and freedom of the truth, and savor the sweetness of life.

Solved: High College Costs and Illegal Immigration (Part One)

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7 September 2011

I have been itching to write this piece for years.

The solution: End federal student loan programs!

And I have been hoping to see that solution enacted since the end of my college education so many years ago.

When I stood face to face with the debt I had accumulated during four years of college–which is nothing compared to what students face today–all I could think was: What a racket! Did they ever see us coming. The school has got the money; we students owe the money; the deep-pocket lender–either the government or the government-backed lender, ultimately the taxpayers–is owed the money. It was all just a matter of course. If you wanted to go to college, even if you were paying your own way, your parents filled out the financial-aid papers, and then you got your package of scholarships, grants, and loans. Take those loans out of the picture, and how much less expensive might college be.

Consider a hypothetical case. Say Vernon owns a shoe store. It has been in his family for generations in the same neighborhood. He sells his shoes for $30 a pair. Considering supply and demand, it is a fair price. Shoemakers get a reasonable profit from making and selling their shoes. Customers get a reasonable price for a quality pair of shoes. Vernon makes a reasonable profit, and he and his employees make a fair living.

Now liberal politicians–who are never more liberal than when spending other people’s money–decide that everyone should have a pair of shoes; so they pass the Federal Shoe Loan Program. Everyone who qualifies can borrow up to $30 for a pair of shoes, the loan backed by (or owed to) the federal government. Up to this point, people had shoes according to what they could afford. They budgeted and saved for them. Some had better quality or more expensive name brands, but people had shoes. For those few really destitute people who could not afford shoes, the churches, synagogues, and other local organizations–to which Vernon and his fellow citizens freely contributed–helped them out.

The day the Shoe Loan Program was passed, Vernon knew one thing: the price of his shoes had just rocketed up to as much as double what it had been. The day before he was making a living selling his shoes at $30 a pair, now loans for shoes are available for up to $30. The person who could afford $30 yesterday, now has another $30 available to him. It may be that the price does not double overnight, as it will take some time for the effects of the loans to make their way all through the market, but Vernon’s price will begin to rise immediately, and more over time, to catch up with the artificial inflation the loans brought to the market.

Of course, to liberal politicians, generous as they are with other people’s money, Vernon is a cruel, selfish capitalist. But wait. He has costs too. And once the market detects the inflation, artificial though it may be, his costs are also going to rise. Why? Because now that people have $30 more to spend on shoes, until the price of shoes sops up all of that extra $30, they will have whatever of that $30 that does not go to shoes to spend on other goods and services, and prices will respond by going up. And they will be going up for Vernon too. The shoemakers will know there is more money to spend on their products, and so they will raise their prices. So will Vernon’s grocer and dentist and podiatrist.

Ultimately, the borrowers will owe the money, the lenders will be owed the money, and the government will be backing those lenders, which will add another cost in the form of taxes to cover for those who will default on their loans. So the taxpayers are rewarded with one more opportunity to pick up the tab. Are not the liberal politicians who love to spend other people’s money wonderful. What a slick way to play the savior while facilitating the steep rise in the price of a product and passing on the costs to the citizens who keep voting for them because they are so generous, loving, and good. And keep in mind, with the increase in the price of shoes caused by the artificial inflation, the $30 will no longer buy a pair of Vernon’s shoes. So, those who vote for liberal politicians will demand higher loans, and the liberal politicians will supply them, which will cause more inflation, which will require higher loans, and on and on and on.

Now apply it to college. With all that easy student-loan money, is it any wonder that between 1982 and 2010 college tuition and fees rose more than 4 times the growth rate of inflation (439% to 106% [consumer price index])? Or look back even further. When my mother received her full-tuition scholarship to a private women’s college in the Midwest for the years 1946-1950, tuition there was $150 a year. Today, tuition at that same school is $31,360 per year or higher, over 200 times what my mother paid 60 some years ago. To put that in perspective, compare it to a book I found on my shelf. It was published in 1952 and sold for $4. If a comparable book sold today at the same rate of inflation as the tuition at my mother’s alma mater, a new copy would cost over $800. Instead, a comparable book can be purchased today for less than $30.

And with students graduating (or not graduating) from college with so much debt, there is another cost that redounds to the liberals’ advantage. That cost is the loss of entrepreneurship. At a time when a person might be best situated to take a considerable risk, when he is most likely to be unmarried without dependents, when he might be most willing to live hand to mouth out of his car so that he might apply his singular talents to the realization of an idea or dream, he will now be saddled with so much debt that he cannot even consider pursuing such a venture. Instead he will need to take his place as a cog in the system that the liberals are forever constructing of faux-compassion components like government student loans, the system that facilitates liberals’ control over other people that is their motivating principle. And by placing young people in such a position, liberals neutralize the most independent, those who pose the greatest threat to their control. And liberals also neutralize the threat of the talents and aspirations of those who may be more talented and aspiring than themselves.

Now apply the same reasoning to other faux-compassion programs that liberals have foisted upon us, programs that enhance their power and control and increase our taxes and debt.

Where does illegal immigration fit in? Bear with me.

(to be continued in Part Two)

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