The problem with the economy (sez Ricky Man-on-Dog) is we're too fucking stupid regarding marriage

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Santorum: Fix the economy by incentivizing marriage
By Megan Carpentier
Tuesday, October 11, 2011



In an interview after the debates with Raw Story, Santorum expanded on his thesis. “On the legislative side, you have to make sure that families that are raising children are not unduly penalized for having children,” and cited the fact that the child deduction hasn’t kept pace with inflation since the fifties, meaning “the tax burden on middle income families has grown and grown and grown.”

http://cdnimg.visualizeus.com/thumbs/ee/85/animated,billboard,marriage-ee85493a74c5b146cbf32d15105ec67e_m.jpg

But, Santorum cited as another example the Chattanooga First Things First program, which was a collaborative effort to encourage more people to get and stay married. Santorum said, “what they did was get educators together, churches together, government together, community and business leaders together and they put together a plan to help families, to educate through the school system the importance of marriage, not just from the standpoint of interpersonal relationships but economically, the importance of it.” That, Santorum added, “is what a leader can do.”



The Chattanooga program does not advocate for more sex education or low-cost birth control, despite having had one of the highest rates of unwed mothers in the country, according to Santorum.



Santorum added, “How many of us have had a conversation at the kitchen table in the last two or three weeks about class warfare, about the rich versus the poor? Why? Because the President’s talking about it. Now what do you think if the President actually talks about the importance of marriage, not just from the standpoint of men and women coming together, but from the standpoint of how it’s going to help the economy? And we actually put together ideas and programs to try to foster this whole different way of looking at America?”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/11/santorum-fix-the-economy-by-incentivizing-marriage/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I could turn that argument around in terms of free market enterprise:

hey, don't have children if you can't afford them a decent middle class lifestyle including four years of college.

Rick S. should think about creating an economy where anyone, no matter their socioeconomic status, can afford to have children. And that means redistribution of wealth bacfk to the 99 percenters.

[City Lights]

2. He's a one-trick pony.

Blah blah blah marriage blah blah marriage blah blah between a man and a woman blah blah blah marriage blah blah blah.

He's got a marriage disorder and should seek help.

[OneGrassRoot]

4. Seriously.

I can't believe he -- even more so than Palin and Bachmann (and THAT'S sayin' something) -- has been able to rise to a state or national level of politics.

Scary stupid and shallow.

[Mac1949]

3. Love the shots from "They Live"...

Now if we could just get Obama to say "I've come here to chew bubblegum and to kick ass- and I'm all out of bubblegum". :evilgrin: Whatever happened to Roddy Piper anyway?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. He was wrestling with a BROKEN NECK...

Roddy Piper Recovering Following Neck Surgery

By David Levin (Featured Columnist) on September 15, 2011

This week, the wrestling icon had emergency surgery at UCLA Medial Center because he was suffering from a broken neck.

Piper announced earlier this week in a story on www.ring-rap.com that "At the time I was doing Fantasy Factory And WWE Access, I BROKE MY NECK! But I didn’t know it! I knew I was Hurt, I am hurt all the time. I just thought the neck injury will go away.

"But after couple months my neck is hurting worse. No sleep from pain. So I go to best Doctors in Country. When Doc saw the MRI’s he went into the 911 attitude fast. So now at 10 am. there cutting me open!"

On www.wrestling.impulse.com, it was reported that the surgery took six and half hours. Piper said on his Twitter account that he walked half the floor of the hospital and when he was feeling better, he wanted to go to the children's cancer ward because they were the "bravest people in the world."

[Mac1949]

6. Wow! I always liked Roddy, though I was never really a wrestling

fan. I love what he said about the children's cancer ward. It fits his personality. Thanks for the update. :toast: