Subsidized Sterilization?

Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.

“We’re on a train headed to the future and there’s a bridge out,” LaBruzzo said of what he suspects are dangerous demographic trends. “And nobody wants to talk about it.”

LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government. He said he is gathering statistics now.

“What I’m really studying is any and all possibilities that we can reduce the number of people that are going from generational welfare to generational welfare,” he said.

He said his program would be voluntary. It could involve tubal ligation, encouraging other forms of birth control or, to avoid charges of gender discrimination, vasectomies for men.

It also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.

LaBruzzo, 38, is white, married to a lawyer, has a toddler daughter and holds a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University.

He is serving his second term in the Legislature, where he drew attention this year for advocating the controversial legislative pay raise and for trying to abolish the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Commission and its Police Department.

His 81st House District runs from Old Metairie north to Bucktown and west along Lake Pontchartrain to the Suburban Canal. In a somewhat different configuration, it is the same district that sent white supremacist David Duke to the Legislature in 1989.

LaBruzzo described the tube-tying incentive as a brainstorming exercise that has yet to take form as a bill for the Legislature to consider. He said it already has drawn critics who argue the idea is racist, sexist, unethical and immoral. He said more white people are on welfare than black people, so his proposal is not targeting race.

LaBruzzo said other, mainstream strategies for attacking poverty, such as education reforms and programs informing people about family planning issues, have repeatedly failed to solve the problem. He said he is simply looking for new ways to address it.

“It’s easy to say, ‘Oh, he’s a racist,’ ” LaBruzzo said. “The hard part is to sit down and think of some solutions.”

LaBruzzo said he opposes abortion and paying people to have abortions. He described a sterilization program as providing poor people with better opportunities to avoid welfare, because they would have fewer children to feed and clothe.

He acknowledged his idea might be a difficult sell politically.

“I don’t know if it’s a viable option,” LaBruzzo said. “Of course people are going to get excited about it. Maybe we’ll start a debate on it.”

(Source)

I’m not sure how I feel about this.  Seems like it could be a slippery slope towards mandatory sterilzation.

However, it’s also possible that people who would fall for this, might not be people we want reproducing.

Regardless, it’s interesting.

Predictions

I only include such things because I like to record predictions to see if they come true.

The highlights are Massive change in financial structures (ongoing, see next item) then whatever the October 7th events are, then a series of release or emotions events till March 2009. Something with a lot of ‘military’ aspect to it on October 15th, or thereabout. Then one big earthquake, likely Pacific Northwest around December 10th, with another one within days (Dec. 12th in model space).

Then we get rising discontent/talk of rebellion/revolution through the spring, the Summer of Hell in 2009, and strange disappearances – but it ain’t the Rapture – think more like ‘the harvesting’ starts in late summer 2009.

The Financial Crisis as the Second 9/11

The failure to connect the dots, dismissal of warnings as unfounded, declarations of unexpected calamity, calls for urgent action by government to prevent greater disaster, insistence that Congress and the Administration must act immediately, frightening secret briefings by those who claim to know what has led to the emergency and what must be done to handle it, public assurances that while the nation is in jeopardy wise heads have a plan for protection, with continuing risk to be borne by all Americans, those responsible for a solution to be trusted in the future even though they failed in their responsiblities to prevent the crisis, and don’t waste time questioning who was responsible for the failure now is the time to plan for the future.

That the problem is due to the US dropping its guard, being complacent about its superiority, not recognizing threats different from those well-known in political and military terms. And failing to see that a national threat has come from a source that no sensible person could have foreseen, sure a few gloom and doomers raised alarms about incomprehensible financial dealings, but who could believe those obsessed with imaginary hazards to the financial market.

Financial power has shifted from the US to Asia and the Middle East, some say, and who knows, maybe that was the plan — to outfox the US masters of the financial universe who believed that nobody better knew global economics, and no nation could challenge military protection of the US economy.

Since 9/11 the second 9/11 was predicted to happen in a way that could not be anticipated, that its success would depend on bypassing defenses derived from the first 9/11. Not nuclear, biological or chemical, but financial. Why target a few thousands when millions can be harmed using the institutions and technologies invented for global commerce supremacy — hi-jacked airliners a mere test run.

The confused rush to handle the financial crisis with piecemeal reactions developed over a couple of weeks is likely to have been anticipated by attackers to panic their targets while continuing to withdraw funds from US institutions, picking them off one by one, assured that no military countermeasure is possible so long as targets cannot be identified in time to halt the aggression.

Or is there an armageddon military spasm in the offing of wounded warriors unable to pinpoint targets so goes for all in the database with the full panoply of the revolution in military affairs.

(Source: cryptome.org)

George Bush isn’t in charge, says Vladimir Putin

In a thinly veiled dig at George Bush, Vladimir Putin today suggested that the US President was not in charge of American affairs, saying that it was “the court that makes the king”.

Amid heightened tensions with the US in the wake of the war in Georgia, the Russian Prime Minister insisted that the US leader was a man of honour and integrity, but blamed members of the administration for the sharp deterioration of relations with Russia.

”I still hope we will maintain good relations, but it is the court that makes the king,” he told a group of foreign journalists in an interview at his residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

He nonetheless spoke fondly of his relationship with Mr Bush, saying, only half-jokingly: ”I treat President Bush better than some Americans would”.

At times Mr Putin displayed genuine anger, particularly when discussing the deployment of US navy warships just off the Russian Black Sea coast. Much of his criticism was aimed directly at the Bush administration which he accused of training and army the Georgian military and encouraging its leadership to launch last month’s assault on the breakaway province of South Ossetia.

“Should we have wiped the bloody snot off our face and bowed our head? Should we have waved our penknives?” he said in response to the mobilisation of Georgian tanks and troops.

(Source)

I’ve always assumed this is how it really is. I’m sure Bush is a nice, likeable guy, with few evil intents.  He probably has no idea how much the world hates him, or how screwed up his image is.