And another thing... You all need to give it a rest with the anti-abortion rhetoric too while you're at it... If the health and welfare of babies is oh so near and dear to the hearts of Republicans, Tea Partiers or baggers or whatever they call themselves, why do they rail against every gov't. program that was ever implemented with the expressed purpose of ensuring that these same babies have adequate food, shelter, clothing, access to doctors, etcetera, etcetera. To my friends on the right, an unborn child is the most precious thing on earth and is to be protected from harm at all costs... but once they take that first breath.... **** 'em!! Answer me this... Is a young expectant mother with no family support, completely on her own with no money, more likely or less likely to decide to keep that child if she knows that she can at least get some help from the government providing for that child? The answer is obvious, yet the far right will still clamor for the end to any and all entitlement programs. I too am in favor of doing whatever we can to clean up these programs to whatever extent we can to try and eliminate,as best we can, the rampant abuse of these same subsidies. But I firmly believe that eliminating these programs entirely would do more harm than good. There's a line I've heard over the years that's in reference to the legal system that goes something like..." It's better that five guilty men go free than it is for one innocent man to be imprisoned".. or something to that effect. I feel the same about the entitlement programs. I'd rather there be some lazy ******** getting assistance they don't need or deserve if it's the only way we can make sure the people that really do need the help get it... especially the kids.
