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There are a disproportionate number of women’s groups in that list. That indicates to me that their objections are based in emotion. My wife hates it when I say it but the worst thing we ever did was allow women to vote. Before you fly off the handle calling me a sexist just imagine a world where there never was a President Jimmy Carter, Billy Clinton or Baraq Ubama. Imagine what America would be like had none of these three, nor most of the liberal in both houses, had never been elected.


14 posted on 02/10/2013 10:37:50 AM PST by 762X51
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To: 762X51
How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (download links for whole document at bottom of page)

September 1998

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

Abstract:
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.


15 posted on 02/10/2013 10:50:50 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: 762X51
"There are a disproportionate number of women’s groups in that list. That indicates to me that their objections are based in emotion. My wife hates it when I say it but the worst thing we ever did was allow women to vote. Before you fly off the handle calling me a sexist just imagine a world where there never was a President Jimmy Carter, Billy Clinton or Baraq Ubama. Imagine what America would be like had none of these three, nor most of the liberal in both houses, had never been elected."

Thanks for bringing that up. I was more active as a family rights and fathers' rights advocated during the '90s and a little after 2000. Now, the damage has been done to our country and to western culture. It's time to prepare for further economic decline and eventual bond collapse (if not successfully rigged to be slow-motion all the way), repudiations of debt and currency adjustments. Become as self-sufficient as you can. Learn as much as possible about producing something useful on a small scale and practice that as a hobby for now. Learn as much as possible about technologies for personal/family repairs.

A future general strike was proposed by many during the late-'90s, but we saw that the feminists/romanticists/"progressives" were to going to accomplish this decline, even without our refusals to further participate in hysterical consumerism. Have fun. Enjoy the slide. A great challenge can be fun.


16 posted on 02/10/2013 11:01:06 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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...advocate, even, where I mistyped as “advocated.”


17 posted on 02/10/2013 11:02:17 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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