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To: RobbyS; soycd; Mrs. Don-o

“Sloth” also includes to unwillingness to address larger societal problems other than by throwing money at people who are annoying.

We could have a functioning education system, for example, but a significant number of people in power don’t want us to, and the vast majority don’t care ... so we throw money into a failing system and produce ever more illiterate and unskilled people.

We could have many more jobs available, at wage rates that reflect productive value, but ideologues and unions don’t want us to, and a lot of people just don’t care ... so we throw money at the unemployed, the unemployable, and the deliberately idle.

We could recognize, as a society, the social pathologies and attendant costs produced by people reared without fathers in communities without functioning authority ... but that would go against some people’s deeply-held ideology, and the majority just don’t care ... so we throw money at the children of the never-married and their mothers, and pretend it “fixes” something.

No matter how one “feels” intuitively about contraception, the point of this article is that the outcome of accepting and promoting contraception is more births to never-married mothers AND more abortions AND an ever-larger share of the population comprised of those who are immigrants, government-dependent, or both. Oh, and Moslems.

One can wish this were not true, just as one can wish that gun control reduced crime or that raising the minimum wage made the entire wage-labor population better off, but the facts are the facts.


15 posted on 05/05/2013 2:15:52 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sarah is right.)
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To: Tax-chick

But you are pushing contraception as a social solution. This policy led very quickly to the judicial coup known as Roe v.Wade, which created the most liberal abortion law in the world outside the Communists states, although this fact was masked by the Blackmun’s sophistry about the trimester scheme.


16 posted on 05/05/2013 7:28:07 PM PDT by RobbyS
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