Friday, September 30, 2005
a modest proposal from a dumb cracker
From the September 28 broadcast of Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America, as transcribed here. The money shot is italicized at the end:
CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn't -- never touches this at all.
BENNETT: Assuming they're all productive citizens?
CALLER: Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it would be an enormous amount of revenue.
BENNETT: Maybe, maybe, but we don't know what the costs would be, too. I think as -- abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No.
CALLER: I don't know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah.
BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I mean, it cuts both -- you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well --
CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.
BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.
i heard about this on the news today.
and honestly, i'm not sure why we are so surprised everytime a fat, grey-haired, white man implicitly admits that he is a racist, or at least bases gross overgeneralizations on race.
so, this leads me to make the following press release:
"If every fat, grey-haired, white man were killed today, I bet the United States would no longer need to worry about racism, sexism, or most other forms of unethical discrimination."
There, I said it.
Great, there goes my fat, grey-haired, white man readership...
I'll never read this blog again!
-- President of the Fat, Grey-Haired White Men United Club
Seriously. All weekend I heard people going on and on about how libearal bloogers and pundits were being unfair to this guy and accusing him of suggesting black babies should be aborted. Anybody with reading skills should be able to tell that's not what he did and not what's upsetting abou this comments. The upsetting part is the fact that he took an argument from a book that said aborting lower income children would lower crime rate and shifted it solely to black kids.
Hit send too soon. Clearly the whole "abortion" thing was an attempt to illustrate absurdity, but to shift it from poor people to black people when the book he was referencing didn't do so, is a little telling I think.
I saw this report on the news. No matter what point he was trying to prove, the fact is he didnt need to say something so stupid. Or put it in those terms...maybe he should think before he speaks.
It's about time you started commenting on my blog again.
there's gonna be a protest tomorrow so this guy will make a public apology.
i'd like to demand an apology...
...but who from?
I think the public apology stuff is always a waste of time. Who cares if he's sorry. I just think it's good to know who you're dealing with.
You, however should demand an apology from God for a lot of thigns.
God, I demand an apology!
What for?
For being really, really, ridiculously good looking. It's turned out to be more of a burden than a perk.
What about your delusions? Are they a blessing or a perk?
hey, you keep your SAT words to yourself, ass!
Your jealous of my beautiful brain.
you lost me.
ian's king!
Just saying.
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CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn't -- never touches this at all.
BENNETT: Assuming they're all productive citizens?
CALLER: Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it would be an enormous amount of revenue.
BENNETT: Maybe, maybe, but we don't know what the costs would be, too. I think as -- abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No.
CALLER: I don't know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah.
BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I mean, it cuts both -- you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well --
CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.
BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.
i heard about this on the news today.
and honestly, i'm not sure why we are so surprised everytime a fat, grey-haired, white man implicitly admits that he is a racist, or at least bases gross overgeneralizations on race.
so, this leads me to make the following press release:
"If every fat, grey-haired, white man were killed today, I bet the United States would no longer need to worry about racism, sexism, or most other forms of unethical discrimination."
There, I said it.
Great, there goes my fat, grey-haired, white man readership...
I'll never read this blog again!
-- President of the Fat, Grey-Haired White Men United Club
Seriously. All weekend I heard people going on and on about how libearal bloogers and pundits were being unfair to this guy and accusing him of suggesting black babies should be aborted. Anybody with reading skills should be able to tell that's not what he did and not what's upsetting abou this comments. The upsetting part is the fact that he took an argument from a book that said aborting lower income children would lower crime rate and shifted it solely to black kids.
Hit send too soon. Clearly the whole "abortion" thing was an attempt to illustrate absurdity, but to shift it from poor people to black people when the book he was referencing didn't do so, is a little telling I think.
I saw this report on the news. No matter what point he was trying to prove, the fact is he didnt need to say something so stupid. Or put it in those terms...maybe he should think before he speaks.
It's about time you started commenting on my blog again.
there's gonna be a protest tomorrow so this guy will make a public apology.
i'd like to demand an apology...
...but who from?
I think the public apology stuff is always a waste of time. Who cares if he's sorry. I just think it's good to know who you're dealing with.
You, however should demand an apology from God for a lot of thigns.
God, I demand an apology!
What for?
For being really, really, ridiculously good looking. It's turned out to be more of a burden than a perk.
What about your delusions? Are they a blessing or a perk?
hey, you keep your SAT words to yourself, ass!
Your jealous of my beautiful brain.
you lost me.
ian's king!
Just saying.
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