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Bill Bennett was citing Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
Freakonomics, A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (book) | 2005 | Steven D. Levitt

Posted on 09/30/2005 3:31:28 PM PDT by patriciaruth

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To: Jorge
The left love to use the R word ...yep Racist. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and if it is my opinion then so be it. If you are white and give your opinion ....the left labels a white person a racist...for example... New Orleans was so bad but the gangs of blacks in New Orleans should have not been looting and attacking people. Bam! The left labels white people racist for thinking such things. On the other hand, the left can talk about the GOP or the conservatives and call us whitey, call us rednecks,call us trailer trash,and even call Nazis' but that is fine and dandy. Right?
As for choosing my words carefully or more appropriately to appease the left...NO Thank you. The blatant hypocrisy from the left and our wimping out and allowing ourselves to be brainwashed is the very reason we are in the disgusting situation we are in today. So if you want to continue appeasing the left then by all means appease them but enough is enough because this double-standard has to be stopped now.
41 posted on 09/30/2005 5:22:42 PM PDT by Paige ("Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington)
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To: BlueNgold
"...seems to draw an association within the mind of Mr. Bennett between blacks and crime, and as such is an indefensible statement." According to the crime statistics that Larry Elder (black conservative) stated, blacks are 13% of the population and yet account for 54% of armed robberies, 33% of burglaries and 51% of murders.

Throw in a 68% out-of-wedlock births and you have a constant cycle of poverty in black communities.

It may me uncomfortable, un-pc yada yada but to say that drawing an association of blacks and crime (with the statistics clearly showing as such)as "indefensible" is intellectually dishonest.

The truth sometimes is uncomfortable to say but if it is the truth then the truth must be known.

42 posted on 09/30/2005 5:23:18 PM PDT by torchthemummy ("Dems preach to their moonbat choir while the Pubbies sing to the audience. " - TTM)
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To: patriciaruth

Check out Margaret Sanger's "Negro Project".


43 posted on 09/30/2005 5:23:34 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: avg_freeper
It's too bad I'm not a famous author like these two. I'm only capable of seeing abortion as a horrendous business where a child's life is traded for personal prosperity.

Try reading the book. The authors make it clear that they are presenting what they believe the evidence supports. They make no moral claims and take no positions on abortion one way or the other. The entire subject of the book is on the unintended consequeces of certain actions, both by the government and by individuals.

44 posted on 09/30/2005 5:25:34 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: BlueNgold

well said... and i concur... i am amazed at the amount of people who only hear what they want to hear and will defend such an accusation... he did say it is a fact.... let him defend himself...

but then again, he should be able to say whatever he wants in a free society... sticks and stones may break bones... but names will never hurt...

teeman


45 posted on 09/30/2005 5:29:57 PM PDT by teeman8r
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To: Non-Sequitur
"Try reading the book. The authors make it clear that they are presenting what they believe the evidence supports. They make no moral claims and take no positions on abortion one way or the other. The entire subject of the book is on the unintended consequeces of certain actions, both by the government and by individuals."

OK fine. Let's make it legal to murder anyone who's name starts with "B". I bet the "crime" rate will then go down.

Oooohhhh! Look at me! I should write a book.

46 posted on 09/30/2005 5:30:10 PM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: mabelkitty

There are three disconnects here.

1. Levitt's studies state that dysfunctional teenagers (of whatever race) that began having abortions after Roe v. Wade were those mothers who would have produced children with a higher risk of becoming criminals than the general population. He did not tease out relative rates for European (white) Americans versus African-Americans versus Hispanics versus Asian-Americans. Thus his data does take into account all races getting abortions, and many of them are poorer, dysfunctional white teenagers.

2. According to Levitt, before Roe v. Wade most women who got abortions were more likely to have resources (social and financial) and their illegal abortions didn't impact crime rates, except that the abortions themselves were a crime then.

3. Bennett was referring to the discussions that have been in vogue lately due to the popularity of this book, Freakonomics, and I'm sure he's heard the eugenics arguments about killing all blacks to lower crime rates, but he was against such arguments as morally repugnant.


47 posted on 09/30/2005 5:31:48 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: avg_freeper
OK fine. Let's make it legal to murder anyone who's name starts with "B". I bet the "crime" rate will then go down.

Well if you ask them really, really nice then maybe Levitt and Dubner'll limit their research to things that you agree with?

48 posted on 09/30/2005 5:34:55 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: heartwood
"And somehow, they turned into one of the most law-abiding, peaceful societies ever known."

Two reasons. Repeal of the Corn Laws which freed people to be productive and create jobs, and secondly, the conversion of hundreds of thousands of people by evangelist preachers Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, John Wesley and many others who turned alcoholics into hard-working upright citizens.

49 posted on 09/30/2005 5:44:55 PM PDT by Liberty Wins (Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
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To: BlueNgold
To make it easier, the FBI Uniform Crime Reports for 2003 breakdown by race show blacks being arrested for 48% of homicides, 54% for robberies, and 33% of rapes (while being 12% of the population)
50 posted on 09/30/2005 5:45:18 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: patriciaruth

1. Got it.
2. Agree.
3. Never heard such discussions (which makes sense since I never heard of the book before today).


51 posted on 09/30/2005 5:50:43 PM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: heartwood
my own guess is that the greatest crime drop in recorded history occured in Victorian England, over a period of decades.

The span of time also corresponds with the practice of transporting underclass criminals to Australia, where they had a choice of becoming productive "or else"

52 posted on 09/30/2005 5:53:15 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: Steven W.

> the original thesis that abortion would kill of blacks and lower the crime rate was originally postulated by Planned Parenthood!

That's right. Margaret Sanger founded the organization and was one of the worst bigots ever. She was a fan of eugenics and a master race (similar to Hitler in that regard). She advocated abortion as a means to keep the black birth rate in check.

Just do a google search on her.


53 posted on 09/30/2005 6:01:02 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: patriciaruth

I'm listening to Alan Colmes saying liberals aren't for abortion and want to reduce it

Ummmm .. Now libs are pro life??


55 posted on 09/30/2005 6:20:06 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Mo1

I believe the liberal line is that they want to make abortion safe, legal and rare.


56 posted on 09/30/2005 6:24:23 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: SauronOfMordor
blacks being arrested for 48% of homicides, 54% for robberies, and 33% of rapes (while being 12% of the population)

One must be fair and allow that blacks are more likely than whites to be held accountable for their crimes or even more likely than whites to be unfairly accused and convicted of crimes. William Kennedy Smith comes to mind. Some of these statistics are due to vagaries of law enforcement, some to inability to pay for the best defense, and some to poverty, which makes all races more prone to crime and is disproportionately present in the black community. If you look at upper and middle class blacks, I believe the stats are much better.

57 posted on 09/30/2005 6:30:49 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: SauronOfMordor
Yes, England culled a great deal of their criminalspoor and sent them to Australia. Are Australian crime rates higher than average?
58 posted on 09/30/2005 6:32:19 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: SauronOfMordor
where they had a choice of becoming productive "or else"

Or, alternatively, they had more opportunities to be productive than in overpopulated England.

59 posted on 09/30/2005 6:34:58 PM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: XEHRpa

creepy what google searches can produce:

http://blackgenocide.org/sanger.html


60 posted on 09/30/2005 6:39:14 PM PDT by tray-sea (www.spf5000.com ... for smart ass t-shirts (including a stuck on stupid shirt!))
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