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To: wagglebee

“If they be like to die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.” - Ebenezer Scrooge


6 posted on 08/08/2014 6:41:43 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: NRA1995
“If they be like to die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.” - Ebenezer Scrooge

[The elderly have] “a duty to die and get out of the way... so that our kids can build a reasonable life." - [former] Colorado governor Richard Lamm

22 posted on 08/08/2014 7:08:22 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: NRA1995

Chesterton on birth control/population control:

In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which he said that “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.”

68 posted on 08/08/2014 9:46:06 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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