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What a creep - How did the Senate confirm this guy?
1 posted on 07/15/2009 11:57:59 AM PDT by lifeisacarnival
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To: lifeisacarnival

I’m confused. Does Obama want to subsidize the Octuplets Mom or punish her?


32 posted on 07/15/2009 12:27:54 PM PDT by Brilliant
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pronatalist bias

I assume this means people who want children. He is correct, in that many European countries have very low birth rates. They are also losing their identity to the Muslim "workers" who they have had to import to keep the social program payments going. A country that has children is a healthy, vibrant country. A country that discourages children is moribund.

Mark Steyn points out the same thing in regard to Euros who just can't understand why Americans have to drive these big cars. It's because Americans are still having children, and you need transport for a family, not for just two people.

33 posted on 07/15/2009 12:28:16 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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Why oh why did this evil little creep’s parents not believe in his twisted philosophy... ?


35 posted on 07/15/2009 12:29:57 PM PDT by MrDem (Monthly Special: Will write OPUS's for Whiners and Crybabies for no charge.)
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What does this have to do with science?


38 posted on 07/15/2009 12:30:47 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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You've got it. Holdren is a community activist, an acolyte of Paul Ehrlich, who was famously wrong about almost all of his malthusian prediction. Holdren, unlike Ehrlich, who did som biology, has never done science, though his degree from Stanford is in physics. With a relatively light student load he spent much, I'd guess most, of his time writing for Ramparts, the premier Marxist journal of the 70s, Mother Jones, and organizing against things like nuclear power and capitalism. As late as 2006 he lectured and wrote about the need to lower the GDP per person in the US - something he is now in the penultimate position to do with his comrade in the oval office. There is another excellent summary of Holdren’s background by Ben Johnson at Front Page Magazine (founded by the reformed editor of Ramparts, David Horowitz). http://www.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=34198
47 posted on 07/15/2009 12:53:42 PM PDT by Spaulding
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It still amazes me how self professed conservatives can do a 180 and turn into big government, “let’s use the tax code for social engineering” and “your tax burden is never too small when it comes to MY kids” when it hits their pocketbooks or even worse, when it comes to others being forced to support their children. I know several arch conservative couples who have 4-6 kids and brag about how they don’t pay hardly any taxes at all...while condemning high taxes in general or criticizing how liberals give tax breaks to their constituencies.

I didn’t ask you to have those 5 or 6 kids and nobody asked my opinion before they raised my taxes and lowered (or eliminated) yours because having children is “such an expense”. Your children are your decision, why do support putting a gun to my head and require through the force of law for me to pay YOU to raise them? What is the oft spoke phrase of conervatives when they see welfare queens having more kids to gain greater benefits? “If you can’t afford them, don’t have them.”

And each time I mention it I get the “MY kids are going to pay YOUR social security!”. Not only do I not want YOUR kids paying MY social security but this has to be the most lame and unsupportable excuse coming out of the mouth of a conservative I’ve ever seen. We all know SS is a ponzi scheme requiring more and more workers paying into the system to cover more and more retirees.

Their response only codifies the system, basically becoming an enabler to the one issue that we all agree is bankrupt and will not be able to serve much longer without drastic changes.

And what will those changes be? It will become a needs based welfare program which means I’ll never see a dime because I was responsible and took care of my own future needs. So you can take “MY kids..pay YOUR..” and stick in the lock box.

There’s nothing more exasperating than a conservative who talks the talk but won’t walk the walk when it hits THEIR pocketbook. You’re an opportunistic poser, nothing more.


48 posted on 07/15/2009 12:54:04 PM PDT by Bob J ("For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one strikes at it's root.")
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Other possibilities include the limitation of maternal or educational benefits to two children per family."

Tell you what: cap welfare benefits to a max of two children. Let me know how that turns out.

50 posted on 07/15/2009 1:02:15 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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Czars do not need Senate confirmation


51 posted on 07/15/2009 1:16:29 PM PDT by GeronL (UnitedCitizen.Blogspot.Com --------- United Citizens Nation! ------------- Join Today!)
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Such taxation schemes are exactly what they have in Sweden - today, the majority of Swedes live alone.


53 posted on 07/15/2009 1:17:57 PM PDT by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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Obama's Science Czar: Traditional family is obsolete, punish large families

Unless there is only one minority female parent and the children are born out of wedlock to multiple unknown sperm doners.

54 posted on 07/15/2009 1:19:47 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If you cannot be a good example you can serve as horrible warning - like Obama.)
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That’s the “beauty” of appointing czars.

The Administration doesn’t need Congressional approval for the appointment of czars and they are not subject to Congressional oversight.


57 posted on 07/15/2009 1:26:01 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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That’s the “beauty” of appointing czars.

The Administration doesn’t need Congressional approval for the appointment of czars and they are not subject to Congressional oversight.


58 posted on 07/15/2009 1:26:14 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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Does he also believe that there should be no welfare for beyond three children?

Sounds like they want to reduce the responsible population, and let the irresponsible population grow . . .


62 posted on 07/15/2009 1:51:57 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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That good ol’ Second Amendment is looking more important by the day.

Add this Czar to the list, please.


65 posted on 07/15/2009 2:45:02 PM PDT by DNME (Where will you meet if the phones go out?)
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He is a “czar” and does not need senate confirmation since there is no constitutional position for a “czar” in the United States Consititution. He is just a political buddy of Obama whom has been given a federal pay check as a political payoff.


66 posted on 07/15/2009 3:59:32 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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Good grief! 40-50 million innocent Americans already murdered by the democrats and RINOs and this scum somehow escaped the procedure!
67 posted on 07/15/2009 4:09:55 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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