Posted on 05/26/2012 1:48:25 PM PDT by Steelfish
I think most of us knew this decades before that.
America and the West built a wonderful social safety net. Little did we realize that it would be seen by so many as a trampoline. The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.
Even the Atlantic Monthly had a cover story called “Dan Quayle was right”. Of course, that was in 1993 after Clinton had safely been elected.
All of the “stupid” Republicans are right. That’s why the Left calls them “stupid”. The truth is very dangerous to the Left and needs to be disparaged and called “stupid”, lest the sheeple catch on.
Crime statistics, especially in single parent black households, bear witness to this every day.
I agree with what Quayle was trying to say, but not how he said it.
“Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong”
This implies he supports abortion (which I know he doesn’t but that’s what it sounds like). Word choice is important.
He should have said pro-creating irresponsibly is wrong ... and that goes for men and women.
I agree with what Quayle was trying to say, but not how he said it.
“Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong”
This implies he supports abortion (which I know he doesn’t but that’s what it sounds like). Word choice is important.
He should have said pro-creating irresponsibly is wrong ... and that goes for men and women.
No he did not.
Dan Quayle criticized the writers of Murphy Brown for their decision to glamorize a fictional 40 year old, rich character having an out of wedlock child. He never did and never would have criticized any real woman who got pregnant and chose not to abort her child.
It is a very real distinction that Hollywood and the MSM have refused to recognize ever since.
To me getting pregnant on purpose and raising a baby with no father is the most selfish thing a person can do to another.I can’t imagine what life must be like not knowing who your father is and what a hole that must be?
Worse is turning heterosexual love, families and marriage over to homosexual sex activists to social engineer.
It’s another step to destruction of humanity for the same purpose feminists (lesbians) pushed single parenthood, degraded fatherhood to the equivalent to an ATM machine and mined conflict and jealously between heterosexual men and women.
Like all liberal beliefs, when given time, prove to be wrong.
The nasty, negative tone from Post readers tells me that getting the facts on marital breakdown has ZERO effect on the brains of leftist marriage-haters. All that matters to them is validation of their own selfish desires and choices, and those do NOT include what used to be called normal family lives.
We knew Dan was correct back then, time has proven it so.
In later research, Ron Haskins and I learned that if individuals do just three things — finish high school, work full time and marry before they have children — their chances of being poor drop from 15 percent to 2 percent.
Note: All of post #15 should have been marked as a quote from the article.
Note: All of post #15 should have been marked as a quote from the article.
Whenever I read about a woman doing that, I hope she has a boy. So that she can explain to her precious snowflake his worthlessness in the grand scheme of her world view.
At the time Quayle was mocked as being George H W Bush’s
“village idiot”. The current crop infesting DC make Quayle
look like a sage and wise elder statesman.
I’ve always suspected that the first-run ratings for “Murphy Brown” were somehow gamed to look better than they were for PC reasons.
The show’s dismal performance in syndication simply doesn’t match up with how well it did during its network run.
You can watch reruns of “Seinfeld” and “Friends” 24/7.
When’s the last time a rerun of “Murphy Brown” aired in your city?
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