Posted on 12/27/2007 6:16:11 PM PST by SJackson
Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- Campaigning in Iowa with just two weeks to go before the first presidential battles begin, pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton largely avoided a question of how abortion is hurting social security. A woman in the audience said abortion is going to make it harder to keep the system afloat.
Joanne Duncalf, a 61-year-old from Clarion, Iowa, asked the kind of question that normally doesn't come up at a Clinton campaign stop.
Duncalf asked Clinton her thoughts on how to fix Social Security so the program for seniors will be around when her children are ready to retire.
According to a Des Moines Register report, she followed up with a second question and explained that, if abortion hadn't been responsible for killing 50 million Americans, the system may be more solvent than it is now with more people in the workforce contributing to it.
"I'm very disappointed," Duncalf said, that "we're not doing more to save those babies."
Clinton initially avoided the question by making a comment on the large red hat Duncalf wore. She eventually got to the abortion aspect of the question but simply said she has worked to keep abortion "safe, legal, rare."
The New York senator said there is time to fix Social Security and blamed Republican presidential candidates for scaring voters by saying it has problems.
The question of abortion and its adverse impact on the Social Security system is one that doesn't get much attention.
Former U.S. Senator Zell Miller spoke about the impact and in March at a fundraiser for a Georgia pregnancy center.
"If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security," he asserted.
Researchers agree with the notion that taking millions of Americans out of the workforce is causing problems.
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute said last year that “When you look at the projections that show our population aging rapidly over the next few decades, when you see our economy and government programs such as Social Security risking bankruptcy, you can see that the United States’ annual 0.9% population growth rate is not enough."
Duncalf said Clinton's response, however poor, was better than the one Democratic candidate Barack Obama gave her when she asked her question of him.
She told the Register about his answer: "He just pointed his finger like this and said, "That. Is. An abortion question.' If he can't handle stress like that, he can't be president."
Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor told the newspaper he doesn't recall the question or Obama's reaction and said the candidate has addressed abortion questions in numerous forums.
Thank you. I remember my father telling me in the 60's that Social Security was going to collapse into itself. It was a Ponzi scheme that could not support itself.
I mentioned this in passing (during the 90's) to my BIL, who is an ivy league trained lawyer, as is my husband, as was their father who was also a judge. This BIL went to a CPA he trusted, asked him about my claim , and came back to me and announced to me that I was out of my mind. He hasn't mentioned it since.
Hillary the Hippo beast may still be protected by the MSM, but not enough to survive what is coming!
Probably one of the stupidest positions and least remarked upon. Why should abortion be rare, if there is nothing wrong with it? Why should it be rare if it is a legal and important and normal medical procedure? Do we ask that tooth extractions be rare? Do we require safe, legal and rare heart transplants?
We currently have relatively rare psychiatric treatment, but HILLARY! is trying to require inclusion of that treatment on all insurance. Why is abortion the only medical procedure the far, far left requests to be rare? Because as usual, they are lying. They know if folks think about an abortion, they will find it abhorrent and grisly. As a routine medical procedure it is generally unnecessary and cruel. So the far, insane left lies and requests rarity of its most sacred sacrament.
Rule one in the new chickafied America - women can change the rules at any time (but not men).
Don’t look back. That way lies madness.
If an abortion is like a tooth cleaning, why keep them “rare”? What is the dirty little secret?
I agree. 3,000 dead a day is not rare.
Another way to look at it.
While we’d like to see more preventative care and lifestyle changes to avoid heart surgery, we do want to see heart surgery rarely needed.
No one says that birth control needs to be “safe, legal, and RARE”. Abortion is largely used AS birth control but it snuffs out a growing life, unlike other methods of birth control. And we are told that it is no one’s bidness how someone got pregnant but the nannystate IS interested in seeing that we pay more if we are going to eat unhealthy food or smoke.
The federal employees do NOT participate in the Social Security ripoff scheme. They should be under the SAME umbrella. No two-tier system.
I've got news for you friend....its been that way since Eve!
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