Neil Cavuto: The Chinese First -- THEN American Children and Seniors

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Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson: We’ve still got to educate our young people, because what are these kids going to do to have no debt and no education, no innovation, no healthcare…seniors will be out of nursing homes…How will they stay in if you cut all the money?

Neil Cavuto: Well, if you’re broke you don’t have options…I would love to have a house in Tahiti…then I come to this annoying fact, wait, I don’t have the money fr a house in Tahiti.

I confess I’m not impressed with Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson, here. Yes, her heart’s in the right place, but she’s not doing much arguing. What we see here, for the most part, is Cavuto and Johson pelting each other with talking points. What’s revealing about it is what Cavuto does not say. Not once does he say, “We’re not giving up on educating, clothing, and feeding our children.”

No, his entire argument seems to be “we can’t afford to educate clothe, and feed our children any more.” In fact, he compares doing this to buying a house in Tahiti. The well being of children (and the elderly) in our society is not a necessity in his mind, but a luxury.

Obama is right. These guys want us to end up as a Third World nation. Judging from what Cavuto is saying here, he's willing to see American children grow up (if they survive to grow up) barefoot, ignorant, hungry, and sick -- so long as we end up debt-free in a couple of generations.


Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes Thoughtcrimes

Sandwichwarrior Opposes Social Justice, Kicks Puppies...

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I am opposed to social justice.

It is not the idea in itself that I find offensive, so much as what it's proponents seem to believe that it entails.

In my experiance social justice is most often used as an excuse to advocate one set of rules for minorities and another set for whites, one set of rules for women and another for men, one set of rules for christians and another for muslims.

This runs completely counter to my own understanding of equality and fairness.

Thus we arrive at an impass.

I would say that in general we all share similar priorities: warm food, clean air, and a dry place to sleep. I would also hope that as a general rule we want the same for others.

So why do we assume the worst when someone disagrees with us?

Talking about cutting back on Social Security or Medicare turns into "You must hate seniors and want them to die homeless on the street". Talking about cutting the military turns into "You must hate America and secretly want the terrorists to win".

Atlas Shrugged was released recently...

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Imagine a world, if you will, where rich and powerful people go to sleep, and when they wake up, 50 miles of railroad track have been magically laid, caused by nothing other than the dreaming of such angels.

( Movies! )