Leftist ideology must trump reality

Daily Mail – Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has dismissed Tory support for marriage as ‘hypocritical moralising’. Miss Harman ended a week of Labour and Tory rowing over gay rights and family life by attempting to slap down Conservative plans for tax breaks to encourage marriage. ……Mr Cameron has already promised support for marriage, and his party is ready to accept a report prepared by its former leader, Iain Duncan Smith, which will call for tax breaks for married couples and laws to make divorce harder.

Labour has, however, spent its 12 years in power stripping marriage of its financial and legal privileges while insisting all forms of family relationship are equally good. ……The political wrangling on family policy comes as research was published showing married couples are much more likely to establish stable families. Mothers who live with their partner are more than twice as likely to become single parents than married mothers, it found. ……And a major study by the Children’s Society charity has said that children do best when brought up by two parents with a long-term commitment to each other.

It revealed children of separated parents are 50 per cent more likely to do poorly at school, be unpopular with other children and suffer from behavioural difficulties, anxiety and depression. Last year a paper from the Department for Children, Schools and Families said that stable families are better for children and acknowledged that ’some family forms face greater challenges than others’. However Labour leaders have remained firmly convinced that money rather than family structure is responsible for children’s difficulties.

Never mind, the children, never mind the break down of society, never mind the evidence, the facts and all that.The leftist ideology of homo rights, homo=great and everyone else sucks always trumps. Why, it’s almost as if they really want society to turn to shit, that they really don’t give a shit about children, parents, families or anything good, but they just can’t admit it publicly. If only the voters out there didn’t have to only learn after everything’s turned to shit.

That’s big government for you

News.com.au – A SCHOOL with just one pupil for 2010 has been given a $140,000 government grant to build a covered playground – even though it already has a new one. Another $110,000 grant from the Rudd Government’s $14.7 billion education stimulus package will be used for classroom refurbishment at tiny The Lagoon Public School, 20km from Bathurst in New South Wales central west. But even locals say it is a shocking waste of money.

They never earned that money, they stole that money from those of us who worked for it, so why should some closet-socialist give a shit how that money is spent or if it’s going to the right school. I’m not even going to bother railing anymore about how incompetent this leftist government is, in fact I don’t give a shit how much money they spend or piss away down the toilet. In fact, just take a couple of million dollars and chuck it into the sea, it won’t make any damn difference.

And I’ll tell you why, you ask the people out there who vote, the ones who work, what they want from government and very few of them will tell you they won’t want big government, very few will tell you that the lot of these parasites need to be sacked and government-running of most things ought to be rejected. You see, for most people out there, they’re not looking for less government, they’re just looking for more efficient big-government.

The fact that this is simply not possible is irrelevant to them and therein lies the problem. It’s like someone asking you to build a car and giving you 5 seats to put in it and then insanely insisting that 20 people must be able to sit comfortably in there. This is the government enough of us want and the rest of us have to choke down.

Socialized health – The point of no return

This is a brilliant post by Mark Steyn on socialized medicine. It’s a bit long, but it’s well worth the read, he knows what he’s talking about. I for one live with socialized medicine and he’s 100% correct. Once you embrace this leftist ideology, there is no turning back. You will not be able to vote your way back because the only difference between the main parties at election time will be leftist and mad-leftist. Read on.

Mark Steyn [NRO, Dependence Day] – Health care is a game-changer. The permanent game-changer. The pendulum will swing, and one day, despite their best efforts, the Republicans will return to power, and, in the right circumstances, the bailouts and cap-and-trade and Government Motors and much of the rest can be reversed. But the government annexation of health care will prove impossible to roll back. It alters the relationship between the citizen and the state and, once that transformation is effected, you can click your ruby slippers all you want but you’ll never get back to Kansas.

Why’s that? Well, first, the “health care” debate is not primarily about health, which chugs along regardless of how the debate goes: Life expectancy in the European Union, 78.7 years; life expectancy in the United States, 78.06 years; life expectancy in Albania, 77.6 years; life expectancy in Libya, 76.88 years; life expectancy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 78.17 years. Once you get on top of childhood mortality and basic hygiene, everything else is peripheral — margin-of-error territory. Maybe we could get another six months by adopting EU-style socialized health care. Or we could get another six weeks by reducing the Lower 48 to rubble in an orgy of bloodletting, which seems to have done wonders for Bosnian longevity. Or we could lop a year off geriatric institutionalization costs by installing some kook in a pillbox hat as Islamic dictator and surrounding him with a palace guard of Austin Powers fembots. It’s as likely to work as anything Congress will pass.

He needs our prayers

FOX News – Insurgents have captured an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Thursday. Spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias said the soldier went missing Tuesday. “We are using all of our resources to find him and provide for his safe return,” Mathias said. Mathias did not provide details on the soldier, the location where he was captured or the circumstances. “We are not providing further details to protect the soldier’s well-being,” she said.

Every time I read news like this, I get this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach. Most of us know these bastards have no humanity and no respect, we know of the barbarity they are capable of, so pray for him folks, Lord almighty, find him and bring him to safety.

Time to cut the savages loose

New York Times – Islamist charities and the United States are competing for the allegiance of the two million people displaced by the fight against the Taliban in Swat and other parts of Pakistan — and so far, the Islamists are in the lead. Although the United States is the largest contributor to a United Nations relief effort, Pakistani authorities have refused to allow American officials or planes to deliver the aid in the camps for displaced people. The Pakistanis do not want to be associated with their unpopular ally.

……although a substantial amount of American aid is getting through, it is not branded as American, and Pakistani authorities have insisted that it be delivered in a “subtle” manner, General Ahmad said. The general said he had told American officials that there would be an “extremely negative” reaction if Americans were seen to be distributing aid, particularly if it was delivered by American military aircraft. “I said they couldn’t fly in Chinooks, no way,” General Ahmad said, referring to American military helicopters. The United States, he said, was seen as “part of the problem.” Hat tip Jihad Watch.

So let me get this straight, the savages in Pakistan have no food, no money and no future. Enter the infidels these savages hate so much to assist them and the aid the bastard-infidels provide has to be provided under the guise of some other agency or group, yes really. I don’t know about you folks but if I were loathed by some group of savages and I wanted to help them but the credit was going elsewhere, I’d be packing my shit and heading home. If you can’t muster any gratitude or let some sense into your thick skulls, then screw you guys, you’re on your own.