With What Time Is Given

Since Google “adsense” is dragging its feet on removing all abortionist links from its ad section on the site, anyone who is facing a crisis pregnancy or knows somebody who is who has come to this site can find real help by calling (800) 848 - LOVE
This hotline is run by National Right to Life and is networked with over 3,000 Pro-Life crisis pregnancy centers around the country.  They can help provide the information the abortion clinics would not give in their haste to push a woman into abortion including providing information about the many alternatives and programs available to assist in any given area around the country.  If you or someone you know is in this situation, please call the hotline above or visit http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/ASMF/asmf15.html to get the information.

My apologies to everyone for the ads that have appeared on this site.  I let blog.com’s “adsense” program put ads on this site with the understanding that only tasteful ads would appear.  Apparently, they have seen fit to put links to abortion clinics on this site, so I am revoking their right to advertise on my site altogether, and hopefully the whole thing should be cleared up shortly.  Please ignore the links, and I am trying to get to the bottom of how this situation came about.

Senate Democrats feel obliged to remind us why they should be the minority party.  Despite over 80% of the public supporting passage of the Child Custody Protection Act, the Democratic leadership is blocking a bill that would merely prevent people from transporting other people’s minor children across state lines to get an abortion to circumvent parental notification laws in states that have them.  It is incredible on how hell-bent the abortionists and their collaboraters in Congress are on killing children.  What they could not accomplish through the Democratic process, they seek to accomplish covertly through preserving an unclosed loophole in the law.

 Even if someone were Pro-Choice, they could still recognize the value in having parental involvement for a minor’s “choice” of abortion.  Even if a state does not require a parent’s consent, you would think any minimally decent human being would recognize that a parent should at least be afforded the opportunity to dissuade their daughter from being rushed into killing their grandchild in a potentially dangerous surgery.  Even a majority of those who are Pro-Choice support this legislation.  The Democratic leadership though is putting pressure on its caucus to ignore overwhelming public support in the hope of “running out the clock” on what may be a shift in control of Congress from the GOP to the Dems in a few months.

Part of the support for and purpose of such legislation is to cut down on statutory rape.  Men who impregnate teenage girls often get away with it by encouraging the impressionable minor to get an abortion, and abortion clinics have been shown to be all too eager to facilitate these cover-ups.  In a sting operation designed to expose such practices, Pro-Life volunteers phoned abortion clinics with a script, pretending to be a teenage girl who was pregnant with an older man’s baby, with an age difference that constitutes statutory rape.  Nearly every single clinic pushed the young girl into getting an abortion.  Good for business perhaps.

For the rest of the details on what your local Senator and representatives are up to on this bill, visit http://www.nrlc.org/Federal/CCPA/DemsBlockProgress.html to get information and email your Congressional leaders to urge them to pass the Child Custody Protection Act.

Recently, a long overdue hike in the minimum wage was agreed upon in Congress.  Disappointingly, the GOP initially refused to raise the minimum wage in the same week as they voted to raise their own salaries.  Nevertheless, between most Democrats and a good 50-70 Republicans, a compromise was negotiated under which the minimum wage will increase from $5.15/hr to $7.25/hr over three years.  This is a major victory for working people, particularly the working poor.  This compromise was driven in part by the desire to avoid tailor-made campaign commercials juxtaposing the two votes in the same week mentioned above and includes a tax cut. 

The fact that a Republican controlled Congress needed to negotiate to procure a tax cut is particularly interesting because it indicates that tax cuts are no longer as popular a platform as they used to be.  People will always want more money in their pockets, and truly, the “tax revolt” continues to rage on in various parts of the country and will ripen in others, but more than that, I believe there is a growing concern with fiscal responsibility as the deficit, particularly the foreign trade deficit continues to grow.  A few action items I would like to see implemented along these lines are:

1.  Include a provision to adjust the minimum wage for inflation.  This way, we will not need to fight to keep somebody working full-time above the poverty line.  With all the entitlement programs we’ve got, its cheaper to just pay a living wage.

2.  Condition tax breaks upon employing U.S. Citizens

3.  Condition tax breaks upon buying U.S. manufactured goods

4.  Adjust minimum wage by COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) so that those living in more expensive areas of the country can remain above the poverty line when working full-time.

5.  Decrease Congressional salaries.  Honestly, these guys are mostly independently wealthy to begin with.  We could at least condition their large six figure salaries upon balancing the budget.

6.  Amend the Constitution to require a balanced budget

7.  Require each expenditure be voted on separately to avoid logrolling and demand expenditures be meritorious.  This will also increase accountability to the people.

8.  Implement foreign policies that penalize nations who deny U.S. products the same market access they seek in the U.S. market.  We have the most powerful marketplace in the world, which means we should be able to send our goods into every marketplace on the planet.

9.  Assess penalties against the foreign debt and currencies collected by other nations for specific, enumerated human rights violations, verified by independent nations.

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