First, an apology. I know it's been nearly a week since my last post. Real life intrudes, and now it's reached the point where I can't nearly post all the stuff I want to post. Time is precious so it's catch-as-catch can, here. I don't want to feel compelled to put something up every single day just because, and I don't want my posts to just be a link to another site along with a "this sucks" comment. I'd rather it be a little more meaningful than that, so I have to pick and choose and monitor my time carefully.
Then there's stuff like today. Can't NOT post about this one.
Back to business.
You might remember the turncoat Zell Miller, former Senator from Georgia, who stabbed the Democratic party and America in the back by sucking George Bush's dick in the 2004 Republican convention.
Now that we know him for the slimeball traitor that he is, Zell's free to continue his rants unimpeded. This one's a doozy.
Zell Miller: Abortion has shrunk our military, hurt social security, caused illegal immigration
Michael Roston
Zell Miller, the former Democratic Senator from Georgia who backed President George W. Bush in 2004 and spoke at the Republican National Convention, recently told an anti-abortion gathering that the "killing" of unborn babies was the cause of many of America's woes, including its military, social security, and immigration problems.
"How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?" Miller asked. "Here is the brutal truth that no one dares to mention: We’re too few because too many of our babies have been killed."
Miller claimed that 45 million babies have been "killed" since the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade in 1973.
"If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security," he asserted.
Miller was speaking at a fund raiser for Sav a Life Center of Macon, Georgia, an organization which tries to persuade women not to have abortions.
The emphases are mine. I have no idea whether Miller's figures are accurate, but I don't believe a word out of that chickenshit sumbitch's mouth. For now, I'll assume the asshole's telling the truth for once when he says there've been 45 million abortions since Roe v. Wade came down in 1973.
Now the rant.
Miller's assertions are beyond perposterous on so many levels. This country's just passed the three hundred million mark in population. It's ludicrous to claim we're producing "too few people." And for what purpose? Let's say that all forty-five million people allegedly aborted since 1973 lived to the present day. (A very iffy assumption, for reasons on which I'll elaborate later). So right there, the country's population is boosted by fifteen percent. Fifteen percent more people to feed, clothe, educate, and provide for. For every six mouths to feed, add one more. And, in light of our current economic situation, all those who are doing without, we can add fifteen percent more of those to the mix. Instead of 50 million people without health insurance, we've got another 7.5 million doing without. Instead of 37.8 million people living below the poverty level, we've got 43.47 million people doing so, almost 5.6 million more. You get the idea.
Now, I admit it sounds a little grisly, insensitive, and cold-blooded to reduce forty-five million people to a bunch of numbers. To treat human lives as a series of columns, without any attempt to measure the depth of their experiences.
And yet that's exactly what Zell Miller has done. All those additional people would be great for contributing to the tax rolls, for padding employment numbers, and (here's the one that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up), for being cannon fodder in our military's adventures in imperialism.
This line of thinking is nothing new. As I've recounted in this blog, the righties have this obsession with making babies, not for their own sake, but for keeping the population boom going, for making sure blacks and hipanics stay in the minority, and for making "arrows for Christ." I shit you not. (Too many links to add, for now--those damn time constraints. Hopefully later. For the time being, check my archives).
This is what the "sanctity of life" crowd is pushing when they oppose women's right to choose. The Righties don't give a damn about those babies in the creches once they're born, except as part of a numbers game. They don't support health care programs for them, they don't support education, they don't support economic assistance. They're just worried about the bottom line. The U.S. standard of living, especially with regard to health issues, has been steadily declining for more than a decade, especially when compared with the progress in other western nations. And yet, in the eyes of Zell and the rest of the Holy Terrors, the solution is to add more to the rolls.
Finally, let's not forget that abortion is as old as is civilization. According to "When Abortion Was A Crime," by Leslie J. Reagan, about 2 million abortions were performed per year in the 1930's and 1940's. That's about, on average, five hundred thousand more per year than are performed today, in a population that has more than doubled. For Zell to think that sort of stuff simply didn't happen before Roe v. Wade, then...well...he's been sippin' at his daddy's moonshine a little too much.
My rant is getting off track. The ultimate point is that the Holy Terrors and their tools in the pseudo-conservative, neo-fascist wing of American politics are still trying to stifle Americans' sexual freedoms, and their motives are being made ever more clear.
They want us to breed like bunnies. After all, all those pawns on the chessboard gotta come from somewhere, don't they?
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