Posted on 08/31/2010 5:25:09 AM PDT by MichiganConservative
As Britain prepares for the deepest budget cuts in generations to tackle a crippling mound of public debt, the government is facing a pressing legal question: Is its austerity plan sexist?
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Women, recent studies here show, are far more dependent on the state than men. Women are thus set to bear a disproportionate amount of the pain, prompting a legal challenge that could scuttle the government's fiscal crusade and raise fairness questions over deficit-cutting campaigns underway from Greece to Spain, and in the United States when it eventually moves to curb spending.
One major target in Britain, for instance, is the bloated public sector, with as many as 600,000 government jobs - or one in 10 - potentially on the chopping block. But 65 percent of state employees are women, including single mothers in part-time job programs, setting them up to suffer more than men.
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So, when I or someone else, such as Ann Coulter, suggest that Americans would be freer and have more liberty if women could not vote, you know it is not just sexism talking.
It isn't sexism or misogyny when it is reality.
If you have a problem with the message that women's suffrage has been greatly deleterious for the country, your problem is not with the messenger. Your problem is with reality.
But the comments should be fun to read as women flip their lid and make sure to point out that though I'm talking in generalities and averages, they aren't dependent on government themselves. It'll be fun to see who just flips out and calls me names because they can't handle facts intruding into "their" reality.
If austerity is “sexist”, then women are lazy loafing leaching bums. Neither is true of course, but let the lefties wrap their thinking around that one.
"Women and Minorities Most Affected"
I am a woman and agree with you utterly and completely.
Neal Boortz talks about this all of the time.
World ends tomorrow.....women and minorities hardest hit.
The trouble started when women were allowed to have library cards.
Including the queen!
I would give up my vote to get my country back.
As I tried to figure what happened to the American people to make them change so much, I had decided it was the female vote since the 19th amendment, but recently I saw the chart for white females, and they are a solid Republican vote.
White women vote Republican in almost every election, they are to the right of the Catholic vote, which is predominantly Democrat.
Unless I find out something new, I’m changing my tune about the “female vote”.
There certainly used to be a sharp difference between married and unmarried White females. Is that still borne out in the statistics?
Where is that chart? Do you have a link?
Was that all white women or married white women?
The unmarried young white women I run into are still liberal leaning.
I have seen charts that line up government growth against the timeline of women’s suffrage and the at that point, the growth of government begins to explode.
This is hardly surprising, as most American catholics are confused. I am a Protestant.
One Catholic white woman I knew claimed to be strongly pro-life, but still voted for pro-abort Democrats "for the children".
Well, that’s encouraging. But, I’ll bet it’s changing as more white women are giving birth without benefit of marriage, etc.
What about the “Chillun’s”? They getting any cuts?
Well, I guess British women better get off their a**es and get to work.
If you track the Catholic vote you will see that they have always been a part of the dependable voting block for the left, the Protestant vote only went Democrat in 1932,1936, and 1964.
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