Louisiana lawmaker stripped of health committee post for proposing to sterilize low-income women

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Louisiana lawmaker stripped of health committee post for proposing to sterilize low-income women.»

Last month, Louisiana state Rep. John LaBruzzo (R) announced a plan “to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied,” along with “tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children.” He predicted that people would “get excited” about his idea. After intense public backlash, however, he was removed yesterday from his position as vice chairman of the House Health and Welfare Committee. House Speaker Jim Tucker (R) said Labruzzo’s comments “impeded his abilities to help lead critical health-care reform.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/07/labruzzo-health-committee/

[LynneSin]

1. I think his committee position shouldn't be the only thing stripped

how about his job too.

Wait, if he's jobless and has no source of income can we sterlize him so his stupidity won't be passed on to future generations.

[Sequoia]

2. Great news!

He can go back to the 18th century now.

[AngryAmish]

5. Eugenics was an unfortunate 20th century idea

[Sequoia]

9. I think the Native Americans would disagree.

The whites have been wasting them since Columbus.

[AngryAmish]

10. Genocide is not eugenics

But both are nasty. Cheers!

[Sabriel]

3. Too bad they can't strip his health care, too

Disgusting eugenicist. If some of them say this out loud, you can just imagine what they think inside....

[KansDem]

4. “...impeded his abilities to help lead critical health-care reform.”

Ya think?!!

[KamaAina]

6. Not only that, he was "malaka of the day" at Adrastos

ma.la.ka n. Gk. wanker; jerkoff.

http://adrastos.blog-city.com/malaka_of_the_day_john_labruzzo.htm

I did everything but swear on a bible that I wouldn't cross-post anything I wrote for Humid City. I just wrote a pretty darn good post over there called Snip, Snip and decided that my "rule" was silly. (Besides, an atheist swearing on a bible doesn't mean squat.) I have, however, slightly altered the post to reflect the utter malakatude of my subject:

It seems that not all local pols with Italian surnames are running for District Attorney. State Rep. John LaBruzzo (R-Metry) has other things on his mind. LaBruzzo is advocating a plan to pay poor folks to get their tubes tied to save on "welfare costs." LINK. It's a pity that LaBruzzo doesn't have a phallic name but he's definitely a dickhead who deserves to be beaten with a plaster schmeckle as well as a malaka of epic proportions....

Obviously, LaBruzzo's bill provides an *incentive* for the "wrong sort of people" to be sterilized instead of making it mandatory but the intent is the same. Basing public policy on bigotry and stereotypes is another form of imbecility. And imbecility and malakatude are synonymous so that's why State Rep. John LaBruzzo is malaka of the day.

Since he's such a malaka, I'm not sure if Signore LaBruzzo would agree with this song by Neil Young & Crazy Horse:

"Metry" is the colloquial local version of the white-flight New Orleans suburb of Metairie. If that sounds familiar, it should: malaka LaBruzzo represents David Dukkke's old district. I'm shocked. Shocked! :sarcasm:

edit: spacing

[entanglement]

7. Obviously 'poor' is a code-word here. Doesn't this guy represent a district that elected David Duke?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. This guy never heard of regression towards the mean. n/t

[Deep13]

11. That's insane!

Everyone knows that sterilizing the low-income men would be much cheaper!
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Some might say that making things so they aren't poor anymore might be a better answer, but what do I know?

[ColbertWatcher]

12. They can't treat John McCain's future Surgeon General that way! n/t