The Success of Failure

The Success of Failure

I recently saw the video Michael Goodwin on the loss of the freedom to fail, which is a response to the aptly named “New Threats To Freedom” series. When we think of threats to freedom we immediately imagine domestic or international terrorism, Communism, and/or Nuclear war. It’s due to this narrow minded, but widely accepted, view of the threats to freedom, that I believe Constitutional and Academic sabotage has been so successful. The enemy within if you will.

Despite teachings of the contrary, our Constitution is not vague on what areas the government should or should not control. This includes schools and education. Michael Goodwin’s video cites specifically automatic promotion and schools inability to show failure to their students, for the sake of their “self-esteem” as a form of a threat to our freedom. This is based on the concept that Freedom allows for great success, but great success must allow for great failure. Great failure has lead to the greatest exceptionalism and inventions in our worlds history. Academia’s irrational fear of failure has lead to poor work ethics, students who graduate ill-equipped for the real world, failed lives and low self-worth. Despite their good intentions, our society’s obsession with “self-esteem” actually injures our students future by ignoring an individuals need for pride, success, and self-worth, none of which is gained when only the collective is favored. With experiments like automatic promotion or not using grades, the individual is ignored for the good of the many.

This “fear of failure” has even seeped into our school sports and extracurricular activities. In the name of self-esteem, all team members are given trophy’s just for showing up. We no longer award individuals talents or achievements, or a teams ability to work together and become exceptional.

Having poorly educated and ignorant citizens leads to less exceptionalism and entrapanuership. When people fear failure to the point where they are unwilling to risk it, they unwittingly ensure that they will never succeed beyond the basic necessities of life, if that. And this in turn leads to citizens more and more dependent on the Federal Government, which does not judge on an individuals personal goals or wants or abilities, but a collective value system based solely on yearly income, number of dependents, and inability to work. Our citizens become slaves to the government, relying only on them the provide and living in terror that that safety net will be disassembled. By teaching our children that failure is the worst that can happen to you, we now have a society that believes it’s government MUST provide, or people will die in the streets, unable to provide for themselves. And therefore, our freedom no longer belongs to us, but is doles out at the discretion of the government, based on it’s owns desires and whims, rather than the idea that all people, in a free society, have equal opportunity, not equal results.

In summation, exceptionalism has given way to mediocrity, and American society seems to be content with that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJLCbv5K0WU

TEA PARTY - A YEAR LATER

I cannot believe that it’s been a year since my first Tea Party. To think that this all started with a rant by Rick Santelli on CNBC, calling for a Chicago Tea Party, and here we are, a year later, still strong and getting stronger. I remember last February, getting out of the car with my mom and the kids, walking over to the bar in Fort Worth, not knowing what to expect. I had joined the We Surround Them meet up group on Meetup.com and a few days later someone said hey, we should have a tea party protest. We didn’t know what it meant, all we knew was we were sick and tired of being ignored and we wanted to do something. We all knew we were going to watch the Glenn Beck show on March 13, that was the point of the Meet up group, but this was different, this was separate. The next thing you know it’s being talked about on Michelle Malkin's blog. This little bar in Fort Worth was having a protest, a “tea party”, to let the White House know what we thought of all this spending. Suddenly, there are posts from all around the country, "We’re going to have one out here in LA", "Anyone meeting up in Detroit?". I watched as people got together, new websites sprung up to try to keep them all organized, and suddenly, Feb. 27 was a day that everyone around the nation would protest together, but far apart. No one covered it. Fox news didn’t talk about it. Glenn Beck wasn’t even sure if it was a good idea, that maybe it was too soon, or what was the true purpose. But slowly, as the day came closer, I saw more and more people on blogs talking about it. In comments on newspaper websites, in comments on YouTube, on MySpace and Facebook, in posts put up by individuals; all of a sudden we had a name and a date.

We were so excited standing there at the bar, outside on the street, listening to people speak about what we could do to take back our country. It wasn’t vicious, it wasn’t racial, it was people saying the things that my family talked about over dinner. Our anger at the last 8 years of Bush. How we stopped amnesty from happening just barely because of talk radio. How we called our congressmen over and over again, asking them NOT to pass TARP. And when the new stimulus bill came up under Obama, we did the same thing, to no avail. It was like we weren’t even there. And yet, here I was, surrounded by people who watched the same news I did, who were politically savvy and knew their history as well as current events. There were inside jokes, names being brandied about that at any other event would get you looks like you’d just sprouted a new head. But here, these people got it. They knew who Barney Frank was, called Pelosi a princess, and even held up signs “You are not alone” and understood what that meant. Up until that day, we were so frightened, believing that the government would pass everything, from Cap and Trade to Health Care and that we had no choice but to sit down and shut up. Because the Government was too big and the American people had a short attention span. When Glenn said “We’ll meet back up on 9-12” we screamed “NO! It’ll be too late by then! The American people will just acquiesce and take it like they have for the last 50 years!” But on that day in February, we had hope. And then we had another Tea Party in April and all of a sudden, we were a “movement”. We were a “group. That one was covered and the media couldn’t ignore us, even if they tried to demonize us. Then in July I went to a Tea Party that had 25,000 people in Dallas, with Michelle Malkin being the keynote speaker and I thought WOW! This is AWESOME!. Then there were the Town hall mobs and people speaking out and inside we knew, maybe we really COULD make a difference. Finally we met on 9/12, and after that massive march on WA, which seems to only exist in our minds, we had the elections in Virginia and NJ. If you asked me a year ago would there be something called the ‘Scott Brown Phenomenon” I would’ve called you crazy. I just didn’t believe that the passion was sustainable.

And yet, here we are, February 2010. I just returned from attending another Tea Party, which has now become a part of our lexicon, and we’ve successfully halted health care and Cap and Trade, and the November elections are just over the horizon. I think to myself, what a glorious people we are to defy the odds, like our Founding Fathers before us, to keep the momentum going, to keep the passion for liberty and freedom alive and burning. If they did it with no internet or TV or telephones and were able to defeat the greatest army on earth, imagine what we could do as a group of people with the advantages we have! One of my favorite fiction authors, Julie Garwood, had her hero say “One whisper, …added to a thousand others will become a roar of discontent.” I’ve though about that statement many times in my life and it’s true. To make change, one must be willing to stand up and take the fall. When I walked into that bar in Feb. 2009 I knew I was willing to fall. Not like my forefathers, who knew they were signing away their lives and family by declaring Independence. But I was willing to fall in my own right; to falter, to be attacked and belittled, to be disregarded and ignored, to be demonized and oppressed. The pain that is to come is worth it. Freedom is worth it. And the words still echo in my ears. Don’t. Tread. On. Me

8 Steps to fixing your Household Economic Budget crisis.

Using the Barack Obama Method.

Step 1: When your wife tells you that your expenses exceed your income, tell her that you’ll look for some spending cuts. After giving the budget a once over, ask her if she’s prepared to give up her water and power.

Step 2: Immediately go out and open up all the credit cards you can before you’re reported to the credit bureau. Max out the store cards first before your credit score drops. Purchase a bunch of necessary items like big screen TVs and furniture. Ask for an extension on your cards once they are maxed out. Pay a few of the bills slowly and eventually only pay the minimum payment. Tell the creditor you’ll pay more next month when things get better. Tell your wife this will stimulate you to make more money and will actually increase your income. When your wife complains that the bills are now larger, tell her you had to do something to stop this speeding train and did she want to just sit there and do nothing and go broke?

Step 3: When the creditors come to your door, asking to be paid, and your wife comes to get you, tell her everything will be ok. While she’s in the bedroom, sneak into her bag and pay the creditor from some money from her wallet, promising to send a check in the mail. Tell your wife you took care of it.

Step. 4: When your wife comes to you upset that all her money is gone from her wallet, get incensed and tell her it’s her ex-husbands fault, who’s a looser and a bum, and that it's his fault that you are all in this situation. Then ask her parents for a loan.


Step 5: Give your friends a blank check for their businesses without checking out their books or asking them what they plan to do with the money. Tell your wife you expect to make great returns on these investments which will increase your savings. When she comes to you upset because they spent all the money on porn and beer, ask a few of them to come over and, while she’s watching, yell at them with strong words. When she’s not looking shake your head to let your friends know you don’t really mean it. Bonus: Follow this up with a sternly worded letter that you show your wife. Meet up with your friends at Hooters and laugh at the letter over some beer.

Step 6: Ask your friends to invest in the local dilapidated drive in theater that no one wants and has been revamped many times by other investors and been a great failure. When your wife asks you how this will increase your income tell her there are thousands of people who don’t get a chance to watch movies at an affordable price. Then accuse her of being mean and call her a racist and ask her why she doesn't want poor people watching movies. When your friends don’t want to invest in the theater, threaten their wives or bribe them with more porn and beer.

Step 7: When your wife asks you why certain bills haven’t been paid or why you’ve bought more items from QVC with the credit card that is overdrawn, respond with lengthy and wordy monologues. Make sure to use big words. Repeat the words “cuts”, “budget”, “deficit neutral”, and “spending freeze” over and over again, and then tell her she just doesn‘t understand. When she looks puzzled, ask her why she wants to stop you from fixing the problem and arrogantly lecture her on her lack of participation. Then, tell her how stressful it is to find a solution. Make sure to let her know, over and over again, how you really don’t want to do this but you’re willing to work all night if you have to to find some answers. Go to a strip club with your friends and ponder the state of the world. Bring lots of singles.

Step 8: When they come to foreclose on your house and repo your car, make sure you have a secret stash of money for yourself that is hidden. Look sad and despondent and repeat over and over again "I don’t know how this happened." When your wife is left with no house or car, standing there with her new husband, hold your head up high and say you did the best you could. Vacation in the Caribbean with your friends and drink lots of beer.

ABORTION:
What They Don’t Tell You

September 26, 2004


In 1973, it was deemed by the United States Supreme Court that it was unconstitutional to prevent physicians from providing abortions as a “health” service to women because it was believed that modern science made them “relatively safe”. Every federal, state, and local law regulating or restricting abortion was struck down.1

1.5 million abortions are performed in the US per year, making it the most common surgery in the nation.# Many studies have been conducted since this ruling regarding the physical complications of abortion and it’s effect on a woman’s short term and long-term health. National statistics show that 10% of women who have had induced abortions suffer from immediate complications. 2% of them, or 30,000 women, fall under the category of major. Immediate major complications include infection, excessive bleeding, embolism, ripping or perforation of the uterus, anesthesia complications, convulsions, hemorrhage, cervical injury, and endotoxic shock. And last but not least, death.2

But what about the long-term effects of abortion, the dangers that exist months, even years, after the abortion is performed? In the 30 plus years since abortion was made legal in the United States, a multitude of studies have shown distressing dangers. There have been a number of links between abortion and several cancers including breast, cervical, ovarian and liver. Due to uterine perforations and cervical lacerations, many women who’ve had induced abortions have difficult carrying future pregnancy’s to term and have trouble during labor. 23% of women who have chlamydia at the time of their elective abortions and 5% of those who do not develop Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) within 4 weeks. And all of these risks increase with multiple abortions, and for those obtaining abortions in later trimesters.# Another danger on the abortion forefront is the use of the FDA approved mifepristone, better known as RU-486, in conjunction with misoprostol.


THE DANGERS OF RU-486/MISOPROSTOL

What is RU-486? According to RU-486facts.org:

RU-486 is the name commonly used for an artificial steroid that blocks progesterone, a hormone needed to continue a pregnancy... When taken alone, RU-486 causes a complete abortion only about 60% of the time. A second drug, a prostaglandin, is given 48 hours later to increase its effectiveness. The prostaglandin causes uterine contractions to help expel the embryo. Misoprostol (brand name Cytotec) is the prostaglandin used with RU-486 in the U.S. 3

In August 2000 Michael Cullen, MD, Medical Director at Searle, the manufacturer of Cytotec, wrote a letter to the FDA. In it, Dr. Cullen reminded the FDA “Cytotec was not approved for the induction of labor or abortion.” He goes on to say: "Serious adverse events reported following off-label use of Cytotec in pregnant women include maternal or fetal death; uterine hyperstimulation, rupture or perforation requiring uterine surgical repair, hysterectomy or salpingo-oophorectomy; amniotic fluid embolism; severe vaginal bleeding, retained placenta, shock, fetal bradycardia and pelvic pain. He establishes that Searle cannot “provide complete risk information” since the drug was not intended to be used for abortion purposes.4

Despite this warning, on September 28, 2000, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved mifepristone, and the accompanying drug misoprostol, under an accelerated drug-approval process normally intended for drugs as treatments for life-threatening illnesses such as HIV/AIDS.5 As of November 2003, at least four women have died from this combination, 13 required blood transfusions due to excessive blood loss, and in 5-8% of cases it caused severe complications.5 In US trials 99% of women who have used RU-486 have had at least one adverse effect ranging from abdominal pains, headaches, dizziness, viral infections, and uterine hemorrhaging, just to name a few. Of those, 23% were judged to be severe.6

These dangers are unknown by unsuspecting women due to the lack of requirements by the FDA. Unlike in France, where there is a required week after an initial visit before a woman is prescribed the pills, a return to the physicians office 48 hours later for misoprostol, and a follow up visit, the FDA only requires that a woman is “counseled” and sign forms, and that she is given medical phone numbers in case of complications.7 That is simply irresponsible, and unnecessarily dangerous.


THE ABORTION-BREAST CANCER LINK

28 out of 37 studies published worldwide, 13 out of 15 in the United States, report an increased risk in breast cancer among women with a history of induced abortions.8 A study funded by the US National Cancer Institute found induced abortion alone could increase the risk of breast cancer in women; for women with a family history of breast cancer that risk increased to 80%. In this study of 1800 women, family history of breast cancer in conjunction with an induced abortion before the age of 18 guaranteed the onset of breast cancer; 12 out of 12 women developed breast cancer before the age of 45.8

There are two indisputable factors for breast cancer. The first has to do with a woman’s exposure to estrogen and the second are the types of lobules, and their maturation, present in a woman’s breast. Immature Type 1 (prepubescent) and 2 (pubescent) lobules are where cancer cells are formed.9 These lobules are more susceptible to cancer by the presence of estrogen. When a woman carries a pregnancy to full term (32 weeks or more) these lobules mature to Type 3 (reproductive) and then Type 4 (lactation), which are resistant to carcinogens. This maturation protects a woman and lowers her risk of breast cancer.9

Within a few days of conception a woman’s estrogen level rises; by the end of the first trimester her levels have increased by 2000%. This, in turn, increases the amount of Type 1 and 2 lobules. Unless a pregnancy continues past 32 weeks, the increased number of immature lobules will not mature into Type 3 and 4.9

A study in 1970, widely accepted in the medical world, notes that an early first term pregnancy can greatly reduce the risk of breast cancer.8 This is because the earlier the lobules mature into Type 3 and 4, the less chance there is for Types 1 and 2 to become cancerous. Abortion affects this process in many ways. When a woman ends a pregnancy before the maturation of her breasts take place, she is left with an increased number of Type 1 and 2 lobules, which are in turn exposed to more estrogen through future menstrual cycles. In addition, the pregnancy itself increases the level of estrogen present in her body, making these lobules more susceptible to the formation of cancer cells.9

It is important that physicians inform a woman contemplating abortion about the risk factors in regard to breast cancer. First, she is removing the positive effects of a first full term pregnancy, which matures the lobules in the breast thus helping to prevent breast cancer in the future. Second, she is increasing her chances of cancer cells forming, possibly by 50-100% depending on her age and family history.

In conclusion, my research has shown that one of the biggest dangers facing women who have an elective abortion is her lack of knowledge. The government has very few requirements and regulations when it comes to informing women of the immediate and long-term dangers. While many clinics offering abortion services do counsel and inform, as well as suggest and promote follow up visits, they do so by their own conscience. Regulations insure the health and safety of those who are receiving surgery, in all manners of medicine. Why is abortion under separate rules? My research suggests that partisan politics and fear of anti-abortion legislation leading to the overturning of Roe vs. Wade clouds the minds of those who are elected to help and protect women. There is no excuse for sacrificing our health. Especially in cases like RU-486, where there are a lack of FDA regulations, or in the medical community, where many have turned a blind eye to the 28 studies that show a direct link between Abortion and Breast Cancer. Americans must stand up and demand equal treatment in ALL medical procedures, abortion included. Only then can abortion be deemed “relatively safe.”






REFERANCES


1. Reardon, D. (1990). Elliot Institute. The Aftereffects of Abortion. Retrieved on September 16, 2004 from www.afterabortion.org/complic.html

2. Reardon, D. (1997). Elliot Institute A LIST OF MAJOR PHYSICAL SEQUELAE RELATED TO ABORTION. Retrieved on September 16, 2004 from www.afterabortion.org/physica.html

3. RU-486facts.org. (n.d.). What is RU-486?. Retrieved on September 17, 2004 from www.ru486facts.org/index.cfm?page=whatis

4. Cullen, M. Searle. (2000. August 23). Letter to the United States Food and Drug Administration. Retrieved on September 12,2004 from www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2000/cytote.htm5.

5. Seckora, Melissa. (2001. February 7). National Review Online. Making America Safe for RU-486. Retrieved on September 12, 2004 from www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment020701a.shtml

6. RU-486facts.org. (n.d.). Side Effects. 2004. September 17. www.ru486facts.org/index.cfm?page=sideeffects

7. American Association of Prolife Obstetricians and Gynecologists. (2003. November 6). Aaplog.org. Reps. DeMint, Bartlett and Sen. Brownback Introduce ‘Holly’s Law’. Retrieved September 14, 2004 from www.aaplog.org/newsru486suspensionandreview.htm

8. American Association of Prolife Obstetricians and Gynecologists. (2002. April 24). Aaplog.org. Induced abortion and the Subsequent Risk of Breast Cancer. Retrieved September 14, 2004 from www.aaplog.org/ABC.htm

9. Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. (n.d.). Fact Sheet. Retrieved September 16, 2004 from www.bcpinstitute.org/physiology.htm

ABORTION

37 years ago the government made it ok to kill babies from day one (conception) until they are born, whenever that might be. Abortion is legal all 9 months. It's perfectly ok to kill babies that are over 7 pounds and fully developed, as long as one foot is still inside the mother. Two of my children were born at 8 months. George Tiller would've killed them for $5000. That's progress?

My ex sister-in-law had a baby at 26 weeks gestation. Baby is 5 now. She could've killed her for about a thousand bucks. Why? When she got sick and was suffering from Pre-eclamsia the baby was delivered and spent a few months in an incubator. So because she wanted the baby, the baby was saved. If she didn't want the baby, it's no longer a baby and just a cancer or sore and killed in the womb. Why? If a woman is sick, why kill the baby? She can remove the baby and both of them can live, there's no need for an abortion to "save the mother's life". We have the technology to save the baby. The woman can walk away and never needs to see that baby again. Why pay to kill it?

I'm against abortion for all nine months because I don't believe in "magic" babies, that it's a baby only when a mother decides it a person. That's insane. But Roe vs. Wade made it legal to kill fully formed babies that can live outside the mother. I believe the Nazi's made it legal to kill fully formed people that they decided weren't human as well. And at one time it was ok to kill a black person as long as you owned him. Why should one person have the ability to decide when another person is human and kill that person at will?

Abortion is the fight over a woman's right to her womb and a baby's right to her life. Does a woman's wish to empty her womb trump a baby's right to live? Remember, a woman is not forced to raise the baby, keep the baby, change her life in any way after the baby is born. The way things are, a fetus must grow for a period of time inside a woman, that's just the facts. The woman may not like it but once she becomes pregnant, does she really have the right to kill that baby because she doesn't feel like sharing her womb for a few months? Like it or not, she's killing a human with a unique DNA, a heartbeat, and brain waves. It is a human, even when it's not able to live outside the womb. Does she really have the right to kill another human just because she feels like it, because it's a burden? Think about what this fight is really about. It's a human rights issue, not a religious or moral one, it's murder that's allowed and encouraged.

I DON'T WANT TO STEP IN THAT HORSE MANURE

So, how's that Socialism treating y'all? My only question is what I'm going to do with that extra $13 a week ($10 after taxes. You did know we're getting taxed on that money as income, right?) So in the end that $1000 we were all supposed to get in that welfare check is actually about $520 per year. Hmmm, I may be doing fuzzy math but that seems like alot less than a cool thousand.

Oh, and I can't wait until baldness is cured thru embryonic stem cell research. Oh, you thought it was going to cure cancer or make the Christopher Reeves in the world walk? No no my friends. Embryonic stem cell research has been going on for 25 years now with the only results being that any animals involved grow tumors the size of grapefruits filled with hair, nails, and teeth. ESCR has discovered nothing of use or value hence the reason why the private sector doesn't want to get involved. What's that, you thought that type of stem cell research was banned by George W? If you know anything about this farce of science and the policy's surrounding it it's that GW only banned FEDERAL MONEY going to fund research. Private researchers can do whatever they want, only they had to raise private funds. And if you know anything about Capitalism (the old type like back in 2003, not the pseudo-type we have now) anything that has any shot of making money is eaten up by private donors. That's why adult stem cell research is filled with people fighting over the multitude of discovers that have come from that research: because owning the patents to the cures for diseases is BIG money. Adult stem cells have made strides in just about every field of medicine. Embryonic stem cell has enhanced the ability to get a tumor filled with nails, teeth, and hair. So, with this new freedom and unlimited funding expect the scientists to work on something that may actually be successful and get them money, things like the cure for baldness or the next weight loss gimmick. Because there are no cures to be found here. If there were, 25 years would've resulted in something worthwhile. California has been funding embryonic stem cell research (and only that type, not one dime can go for adult stem cell research) for 5 years now to the tune of millions of dollars a year until the day California finally falls off the continent. (Prop 71 was a constitutional change that guaranteed the money no matter what and absolutely no oversight or proof of any results needed). And yet nothing. Michael J Fox promised us a cure if Prop 71 passed. I have terrible acid reflux. Where's my cure?

One last note that ties these two thoughts together: California has been practicing Socialism for years now and they keep funding unnecessary, heart string, knee jerk pet projects. And look at them now. Do you really think it's a good idea to follow in the footsteps of California, in any way, shape, or form? Sorry, it's like following the horse drawn carriage in a parade: Do Anything to Avoid the Horse Shit. That's my motto.

Who Knew Talking About The Economy Could Be So Stimulating?

The problem with responding to the $200 million dollars included in the stimulus bill is the amount of time it takes to layout simple logic. Those of you out there who are reading this and saying “Everyone already knows this!” bear with me, I have no choice but to plot thru slowly, as though talking to a 4 year old due to how this “plan” has been reported in the mainstream media. You see, I have actually read the bill, which in reading, proved that it is not, what our politicians and mediots have declared it to be.

Ok, here we go… The bill is supposedly a stimulus bill, which would indicate that the money being borrowed would stimulate the economy. To stimulate the economy means to excite, encourage, and ignite (if you will) the economy. So the money being borrowed from us, in theory, should get the economy going for all of our betterment.

Now, if 200 million is spent towards family planning the question is, “How does that stimulate the economy?” and “How does that help the economy to grow, and affect us now, and in the future?” You see, we’re not talking about morals and values, its basic fact, action vs. reaction, etc. If this were a bill for family planning, then it would make sense. But it’s an ECONOMY bill. We have to wonder what family planning has to do with the economy, and the actual business of the country’s financial state. And there might be an answer, but it’s not obvious, so let’s look at it logically. Because if the $200 million doesn’t actually stimulate the flow and liquidity in the job sector, banks, and markets, then its only purpose is to grease the palms of the family planning community. In essence, it’s money thrown down the toilet in order to make “Planned Parenthood” happy. Remember, the bill has a job to do. Any penny or dime that doesn’t directly impact that business and financial sector is wasted money.

What is the purpose of family planning? Many I’ve heard have made the correlation between the ideas that women who can plan their children are more productive members of society and give birth to more productive members of society. Ok, by a long stretch of the imagination, that can be tied to the economy. After 40 years, the social experiment of family planning and abortions have many, many conclusions. The mantra that child abuse and teenage pregnancies would disappear has been proven false. Family planning and abortion has led to a society that glorifies out-of-wedlock children and diminishes the idea of a two parent, financially secure household. This in turn has led to higher crime, more people dependant on welfare, and more of a burden on taxpayers. So the social experiment failed. It’s been 40 years and the proof is all around us. Let me make it a bit clearer for you.

Instead of decreasing the numbers, the social experiment with family planning and abortion actually caused a rise in child abuse, teenage pregnancies, welfare dependants, and tax burdens. All that work and the opposite happened. It’s not about my personal beliefs, these are facts. The numbers have gone up. The more people are told they can have sex without consequences, the more people go and have sex and suffer the consequences. No matter how many condoms are available, how many abortion clinics are on the street, how many teachers teach teenagers how to use birth control, human nature guarantees failure. And the more people doing dangerous activities the more people will suffer the dangerous consequences. Its science, physics. I can’t make it any clearer. No matter the precautions, there is always a fail rate. If more people are participating than the chances are more people will fail. I’ll try to give an example, but most people just won’t get it. I don’t know why, but they can’t wrap their brain around it.

OK. If ten people are putting their hands in a fire and getting burned you may say “Hey, we need to help those people. Let’s make a glove that protects their hand so they won’t get burned.” So you make a glove and give it to the ten people. All ten put it on. The problem is it’s guaranteed that at least 2 of the 10 people will use the glove incorrectly. That is human nature. Not all people use things correctly. So 8 of the ten are safe now, but 2 still get burned. OK, but at least it’s only 2 getting burned instead of 10 right? Except now we invite a bunch of people over to put their hands in the fire too, since we have all this protection. Except we know that for every 10 people putting their hand in, 2 will get burned. Now instead of 10 people we have 10,000 people putting their hand in the fire and even though we have protection and 8000 of them don’t get burned, we now have 2000 people who are injured. That’s why it’s sometimes better for people to be taught not to do dangerous things rather than telling everyone to do really dangerous things but use protection. Because when people are told NOT to do something that they shouldn’t do it for this reason or that, less people do it and less people get hurt.

The other aspect to consider is why we would need $200 million more put towards family planning at all. Lets say, for hypothetical reasons, that family planning DID lead to future economic stimulus and that what you said was true, that women who had access to family planning and abortions would work more and give more money to the government in turn being more productive members of society and giving back to their communities. Even if that were true (which it’s not) we already have family planning available all over this country; from high schools to strip malls. Women in any major city can find a Planned Parenthood or other clinic that offers a sliding scale charge for birth control and abortions. Almost all health insurances cover birth control, and for women without health insurance any one of these clinics will cover the pill and other female contraceptive for next to nothing. Not to mention that condoms are almost free. So even if one could prove that family planning is good for the economy, it’s not a needed expense since it’s already available. And if people out there say there aren’t enough, I want the name of cities, streets, areas, barrios, etc. that a clinic isn’t somewhere within a bus stop. We can’t have a clinic on every corner in every city, and if we wanted to do that, $200 million wouldn’t pay for it, and that’s not what this said it was going to do. So please, tell me why we need this money to go for family planning?

People are supporting giving $200 million dollars to the some guy in the government and yet have no idea what he’s going to do with it. Obama says family planning and everyone just creams in their pants but they have no idea what that means. Please, someone, explain it to me. How is the money to be spent? Who gets it? What exactly will be done with each dollar? How does it help the economy since this is an economic bill? Answer those questions and I’ll contemplate it. But just saying the words “family planning” doesn’t get me all excited. It’s not about my religion, my beliefs, or my values. It’s about logic. People hear a statement and parrot it because Nancy Pelosi and Obama are their spiritual guides and like a lemming, they say whatever their leaders say without any thought to what it means. They are the epitome of everything the liberals say they hate about Christians. Christians are accused of going into church and just reciting what they hear without any thought, but this bill and the answers for the stealing of all of this money, and the reaction from the liberals in the cult who just spew what they hear without ever dissecting it just proves that it is the LIBERALS who are sheep and not the other way around.

I request that anyone who wishes to argue my points actually read them before you just spout what you hear on MSNBC or read in the Times. Think, absorb what I’ve said, and THAN offer your argument. I’d love to hear it, but no one seems to want to actually talk logically, just emotionally.