America’s cultural decline in a single chart
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I could be mistaken but I believe his point is that a LACK of using birth control = lack of personal responsibility.
The whole thing’s a joke. Make poor decisions and somebody else will pay for your housing, food, utilities, even phone and internet access. Enable people to make poor decisions with little or no consequences and they generally won’t let you down.
Using birth control prevents so many problems it's not funny. Yet, you want to focus on the aspect that some Govt agencies provide it for free as the big "problem" here?
How about vaccines, obviously only those who can pay for vaccines should receive them, who cares about a disease breaking out and straining our entire health system and costing us taxpayers, dozens/hundreds of times more than it would have cost to have provided to give out the vaccines in the first place.
Sorry, but there are plenty of times, particularly in regard to public health issues, that the govt's assistance in providing or distributing certain medicines and treatments produce significantly greater benefits than withholding them. Additionally, as I noted above, it's typically conservatives who want to even withhold INFORMATION from people in regard to reproductive health, simply because they have puritanical takes on the subject. Please explain to me how a person can even begin to make an informed decision and take responsibility, when they are denied access to the information which allows them to do so?
How about vaccines, obviously only those who can pay for vaccines should receive them, who cares about a disease breaking out and straining our entire health system and costing us taxpayers, dozens/hundreds of times more than it would have cost to have provided to give out the vaccines in the first place.
Sorry, but there are plenty of times, particularly in regard to public health issues, that the govt's assistance in providing or distributing certain medicines and treatments produce significantly greater benefits than withholding them. Additionally, as I noted above, it's typically conservatives who want to even withhold INFORMATION from people in regard to reproductive health, simply because they have puritanical takes on the subject. Please explain to me how a person can even begin to make an informed decision and take responsibility, when they are denied access to the information which allows them to do so?
I should also note, I'm advocating for enabling people to make Good decisions. Just like making schooling mandatory by law helps people make good decisions in regard to education.
Oh, I’m not railing against you at all. More of a general frustration of where we are as a society. We have good intentions and want to make people’s lives better. I get that. But look where we are. Do we call this a success story or are more generations going to repeat the cycle?
I have a neighbor who is on disability pay. The past two winters, I have taken him some firewood. I go cut down the trees, I split it, I load it back into the truck, I take it to his place and stacked it for him because of his back injury.
This last summer, he asked me to come over to his place with my tractor so I could lift up the back end of one of his vehicles with the loader bucket and move it for him. So I did. When I arrived, he puts down his cane and very nimbly and quickly crawls around on his hands and knees to make sure I was properly aligned. Back and forth he scrambles, just like he was a teenager.
At some point during this incident, I began to feel like I was being taken advantage of in the firewood department. Maybe it was the part where he grabbed his cane again and used it to walk back into his house.
It’s this sort of thing that makes me question what the hell we are doing.
This last summer, he asked me to come over to his place with my tractor so I could lift up the back end of one of his vehicles with the loader bucket and move it for him. So I did. When I arrived, he puts down his cane and very nimbly and quickly crawls around on his hands and knees to make sure I was properly aligned. Back and forth he scrambles, just like he was a teenager.
At some point during this incident, I began to feel like I was being taken advantage of in the firewood department. Maybe it was the part where he grabbed his cane again and used it to walk back into his house.
It’s this sort of thing that makes me question what the hell we are doing.
There's going to be far more people repeating the cycle in the absence of birth control. IMHO, it's the only thing that's going to come close to stopping the problem in the first place. And the truth is it's costing us taxpayers FAR less to provide that assistance with birth control, than it's costing to fund such programs.
What are you talking about here?
The root of our cultural decline, starting with LBJ’s war on poverty in 1964....
And one year later, also under LBJ, the immigration act of 1965.
This changed our immigration forever, from mostly Europeans, into non-Europeans who vote for more welfare.
Hence the eventual Democrat permanent majority (already happened in California).
Look closely....
I love it when other people's problems become my problems. It gives me a reason to get up in the morning.
It it seems to me there’s a Planned Parenthood in almost every major city in America. A lot of church organizations exist to provide just the information you describe. Almost every kid has at least one parent with whom he lives. There are teachers, coaches, mentors, bosses, friends, fellow employees or students. There are TV shows, ads on tv, radio public addresses, movies. The list is practically endless. It would be almost impossible in this day and age for a kid not to know about personal responsibility when itcomes to birth control.
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"Knowledge of" will never equate to "personal responsibility" to do what's right.
