JimmyBlind":gmakloex said:
To be fair, probably a slight political generalization of the members of that forum. If you're gonna imply that leftism is somehow responsible for taking away your right to free speech & freedom of choice, to voice your own political persuasion, you can't then make a comment about anti-abortion. Abortion isn't even a right vs left wing issue. It's a religious issue. If anything, unwanted pregnancies & population increase are a drain on the welfare state & the economy.
For the record, I don't see anything ban-worthy from your post. If you have been banned for writing something as un-provocative as that, it sounds like a forum I won't be visiting any time soon.
Sorry but you are uninformed. Leftism does, in fact, take away free speech and freedom of choice. Have you ever heard of Obamacare or the Patriot Act? (in regards to the Patriot Act, which Obama extended and later extended its extended provisions, Bush was ironically left-sided in many of his policies which is what turned away many conservative votes from the Republican party in 2008). Any time there is government expansion there is a loss of liberty. Anyone who has ever read the Federalist Papers knows the delicate balance that must be maintained in the size of government (see James Madison). It is typical of liberals to support government expansion in some form or another (see appendix below).
Abortion is indeed a political issue. You probably perceive it as a religious issue because of the type of media you expose yourself to which constantly pushes that idea, but it's a falsity. "Right to life" is the basis of right vs. left politics. On the right, they generally believe that fetuses have the right to live. On the left, they believe that individuals should have the right to terminate the life they carry. The modern political battle of abortion lies mainly in what stage fetuses can legally be aborted. The right has caved-in and pretty much come to accept abortion rights, but only up until 6-8 weeks which is when the brain forms in a fetus. Liberals generally want to push for abortions up to 6 months of pregnancy. Therefore, whether you're religious or not, the point at which you believe a fetus becomes a person is basically what decides which side you land on.
Population increase is a directly related to the welfare state. Birth rates among poor people are nearly twice as much as middle class and nearly triple that of high-income families. The welfare state (a liberal institution) enables higher birth rates because it funds families who have kids they can't afford.
Consider Obamacare which is designed to create a complete population shift and destroy the Euro-centric population of the U.S. First of all, populations such as the black population which is only 14% of the total United States population, will be able to afford an increase in the already excessive births of the population. Moreover, with 12,000,000 illegal imigrants obtaining amnesty and thus covered under Obamacare, imagine how many births our taxpayer dollars will fund.
What did you think Obamacare would do? Did you not consider that the bulk of Obamacare would contribute to birth and child related healthcare? Indeed, people who overproduced before are now empowered by executive order to produce even more offspring.
Anyway, the reason I even bothered is because too many people have simple ideas like yours which just aren't reality. I understand that, for most people, it's easier to accept and live with simple ideas than to spend time and effort to fully understand the actualities and implications of what goes on around us. However, it's about time that Americans stop being lazy and uninformed and quit acquiescing to liberal media and government control.
[Appendix] Most people have no idea what it takes to even implement a 2¢ tax. Just to manage a 2¢ tax tacked on to a phone, gas or some other bill, an entire bureaucracy to manage that tax is created. Salaries are paid, offices or buildings are required to house them, oversight committees, attorneys, etc... are all employed. Therefore that little 2¢ tax which might generate, for example, $1,000,000,000 in tax revenue, costs $900,000,000 to manage and collect. However, as the government sees it, because there is a very small surplus after government expenses are paid without regard to your costs, the entity is continued with a standard annual budget increase of %5 to offset inflation, etc...
The most insidious part of all of this is that the government has never really dissolves these entities even after such a tax might be cancelled. They simply restructure and redirect the entity. That's the problem with government expansion because the size and cost of government is never reduced. No president ever comes in and takes a hacksaw to porkbelly spending and inflated government programs. The biggest difference in politics is that liberals are much more lavish and careless about what it costs the people or the toll that government expansion takes on liberties.
Moreover, consider new Obama executive actions such as providing 2 years of college tuition and broader Internet access across the U.S. Your rights, liberties and privacy will certainly be impacted in a big way. As if that's not enough, in order to have anything pass and stick, political deals have to be made and bills are always passed with some undesirable amendments tacked on to them.
Folks, it's time to wake up and smell the sewage. We're neck-deep in the shit.
Left-wing pundits love to sling shit, but damn do they hate when it comes back to them! It's obvious that The Gear Page is a bastion of left-wing liberals. You can make pro-communst (Progressive) comments all day long, and no one will say a thing... If you even hint to being pro 1st Amendment or anti-abortion, first you will be attacked by the TGP leftist shills, then banned.
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