Permit Me a Turn on the Soapbox, if You Will.
If you pay taxes in the U.S., be afraid. Be very afraid. Of Obama. I know how much America loves Obama. I know he's charismatic. I know he says what people want to hear. I know it's awesome that he knows how to use a Blackberry, and a computer. Heck, he seems like a great guy. But what we have here is a cult of personality, folks. We can't afford Obama. Especially not in this economic climate.
This quote sums it up, perfectly:
"Rather than carefully
watering each plant with care, Obama seems to be turning a fire hose on
an entire desert. Even America doesn’t have enough money for that."
By the way, in his first week in office, he reversed a policy signed by George W. Bush that prevented the U.S. from funding international communities with funds for abortion clinics. So, not only will Joe Public get to pay for the abortions of Americans, but we get to contribute financially to abortions all over the world now.
I know abortion is a hot topic, but I don't like it one bit. Let's get real here. People don't have abortions because of incest, and because the baby is threatening their life, or because they were raped. What's going on here is called cognitive dissonance (Cognitive Dissonance is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time). We know in our hearts and heads that it's wrong, and that causes us a problem to stand for something that we innately know is wrong, so we have to fabricate a justification (rape, incest, which is rarely the reason, or, it's not a really a person) so that we can change our mind based on the loose and flimsy justification, so that we can sleep at night.
Surveys from abortion clinic data reveal that the number of women having abortions because of rape/incest/life threatening reasons, is a fraction of 1%. The other 99% are people that hate that whole meanie-head idea that there are consequences for my actions, that don't want someone to find out they've been sexually active, that feel they can't afford it (there are plenty of people who can, and would love to have that baby, by the way), that don't bother to use birth control, so this method will do.
Don't believe me?
There were 13,843 abortions performed in the state of Minnesota last year.
The most
common reason cited was that a woman did not want children at this
time (10,190), aka, this puts me out. I don't feel like it.
Other reasons included already being a single parent
(1,024) (aka, an economic reason) and unfulfilled educational goals (886).
Ninety-eight women
cited rape or incest. Ninety-eight. That's 0.7% folks. 99.3% of women terminated their child because, why? This is a hassle. That unique, once-in-a-lifetime person doesn't get to have their life because they were a hassle.
BLEH!!! This quick fix, lack of responsibility in our society bloody-well disgusts me.