culture of life

Culture of Life

30% US health care spending last 3 months of life for people with tubes and limited quality of life –

last election Kerry: tax cuts over $200,000 yearly income roll back to get universal child

health care

Why $80,000 / annual for impaired life and against a few hundred annul for kids where long term 8:1 payback in savings later?

Bush43 – cut by 1/3 value of human life when calculating how much it is worth to protect people from industrial chemicals etc.

Stripped environmental protection from 1/10 of US land area;

Shift burden of cleaning up toxic waste from polluters to general population

Proposed plan to allow more than 4 times as much mercury in America’s air compared to current law.

Death penalty in Texas – errors – “no thought” - memos from Alberto “torture is OK if Bush43 sez so” Gonzales LEAVING OUT reasons for appeal

supporting "culture of life" 2/3 liquid brain Florida emergency congressional session, John Bolton - ambassador to U.N. manifest contempt human life consistently argued murder of innocents in strategically unimportant places like Bosnia, Kosova, and Africa, is not a concern of the United States, and should not be a concern of the U.N., either.

Bolton flatly opposes the use of U.N. peacekeepers in civil conflicts, because he does not deem these "threats to international peace and security . Bolton has testified against U.N. involvement in Congo, an inter-state conflict that has cost 3 million lives. He blasted the United Nations' concept of operations for its Ethiopia-Eritrea operation and rejected the U.N. civil administration missions in Kosovo and East Timor. Bolton criticized any " 'right of humanitarian intervention' to justify military operations to prevent ethnic cleansing or potential genocide." Genoocide in Darfur? Never mind.

Bush on human embryo research - Many thousands of human embryos are created each year in fertility clinics; it's only when it is proposed that these certain-to-be-discarded embryos be used for life-saving research that the Hammer comes down and Congress is asked to take a stand for life. Wouldn't want to inconvenience or embarass possible Republican voters utlilizing those fertility clinics, right?

ABORTION rates?

Unwanted children? 17 years after an individual liberalizes abortion (preRoeVWade)

big drop crime ?

17 years after Roe V Wade big drop crime nationwide (Donohue and Levitt

Big drop abortion Clinton – his Tax policy à Jobs available – minority unemployment record low - strongly rising income working poor

Welfare reform (drops child abuse in Illinois 50%) allows poor to keep health care, makes child care available

Abortion – raises in Reagan and Bush43 – their story – poor are undisciplined or immoral from “if it feels good do it culture” of 1960’s (book “Dream and nightmare”)– if so: Why are poor more immoral in Bush43?

Bush43, when governor of Texas, approved a measure to switch off life support where people didn’t have the money to pay any more