Posted on 12/30/2001 5:09:11 PM PST by RMrattlesnake
Visited with my nephew over the holidays...raised by politically clueless liberals...he's a 15 non-thinking liberal (redundant, I know).
Vegetarian, gun control, "no-unemployment-when-Bill-Clinton-was-President", kind of guy. Informed me (in a truly condescending teenage liberal manner) that the only reason Bush was elected Governor of Texas was because Ann Richardson wanted gun control and Bush said he didn't support it. Really got his goat when I replied, "Yeah, that's how come he was voted President as well. Funny how the majority of Americans are against gun control."
Yeah I know it's long, but you get more air time with this one to pound on a liberal.
Say: "I think Al Gore had an excellent education policy. He sent all four of his kids to private schools. Good for him!"
Ask: "If India's poverty is caused by overpopulation, then why does Hong Kong, which has a population density 20 times higher than India's, have a per capita income that is 100 times higher than India's?"
Say: "The ACLU is against government funding of religion, except if the item in question is anti-religion, such as dropping a cross in a jar of urine, in which case, the ACLU is in favor of government funding of religion."
Say: "Among black children in the U.S. who are raised by married parents, the poverty rate is very low."
Ask: "If the U.S. is such a bad place for blacks, then why do so many African born blacks move here every year?"
Say: "Among U.S. citizens who have a permit to legally carry a gun, the rate of gun related crime is virtually nonexistent."
Say: "During the 20th century, 99% of all murders in the world were committed by government. All of these mass murders were preceded by gun confiscation."
Say: "Hitler had Switzerland surrounded, and was planning to invade. But when he found out that the Swiss citizens were well armed, well trained, and ready to fight, he changed his mind. When Jews fled Germany, they took refuge in Switzerland, where they were allowed and encouraged to own guns."
Say: "Vermont is the only U.S. state that has no gun control laws. Vermont's murder rate is lower than Japan's, where guns are illegal."
Ask: "When are we going to have the global cooling that the environmentalists predicted 30 years ago?"
Say: "Since the 1950s, per student spending in the public schools, adjusted for inflation, has more than tripled."
Say: "On private fish farms, overfishing never happens. On private tree famrs, overlogging never happens. Among animals that are raised on private farms, there has never been a single case of an animal being hunted or poached to the point of becoming endangered or going extinct."
Ask them: "If you want people to conserve water and electricity, then why do you favor price controls that keep the prices of these things artificially low, which encourage people to waste them?"
Say: "Even if your tap water has the maximum arsenic level of 50 parts per billion, and you drink eight glasses of water a day, every day, for five years, it still wouldn't give you as much arsenic as you would get from eating just one lobster."
Say: "Cost/benefit studies show that government mandated recycling of newspapers, glass, and plastic wastes more resources than it saves."
Say: "CAFE standards made cars more fuel efficient, which made driving cheaper, so people responded to that by driving more, and so no gas was saved."
Say: "Black people who were born in Barbados and immigrated to the U.S. have higher incomes than white people who live in the U.S."
Say: "Studies show that a low income black kid is better off attending a $2,500 Catholic school than he is attending a government school that costs 3 times as much."
Ask: "If you're pro-choice on abortion, then why do you think that people who oppose abortion should be forced to pay taxes to pay for abortion?"
Say: "93% of all cervical cancer is caused by the HPV virus. Condoms do not stop the transmission of this virus."
Say: "In the year 2000, the NAACP ran a TV ad that was critical of George W. Bush. Liberals want to pass campaign finance reform to ban ads like this. But I'm sure most blacks will still vote for the liberals anyway."
Yes!
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