Needed:
A Pro-Life
Tea Party
By Dennis Howard (c) Copyright, 2011
After the November election, the Republicans came out of the box breathing fire about how things were going to change. Then they melted before the president's new spirit of "compromise."
Now, we're getting a fresh start with a new Congress and, of course, a �kinder, gentler� President Obama.. So far, repealing Obamacare is high on the GOP agenda, but because of the president�s veto power, no real headway can be made on that until after 2012. On the positive side, we won't have Nancy Pelosi around to saddle our grandchildren with any more debt. She retired as Speaker after adding $5.2 trillion in new debt to the nation�s balance sheet.
Few of us can even imagine how much that is. At a million dollars a day, that would take us back 14,246 years to when Neolithic man was toughing it out during the last great Ice Age. Noah and the Flood didn�t happen until 10,000 years later.
Meanwhile, the economy remains weak, joblessness stays high, and the president keeps pledging to do something about "jobs, jobs, jobs." Figuratively speaking, the Tea Party folks should be forewarned to hang onto their war paint. If they don't stay vigilant, they could lose their tailfeathers.
It should also be a warning to pro-life conservatives that they need to get much more involved if their viewpoint is going to be reflected, not just in the new Congress, but in the Tea Party movement itself.
The administration has already tried to revive the "death panels" that were effectively stripped from the original health care bill. Social conservatives need to take that as a warning. The scrimmage lines for 2012 are being drawn right now.If there ever was a time when unity and solidarity between economic and social conservatives was critically important, this is it. Here's why:
If Obama can hold onto his block voting majorities, any opponent will still need 60% of the rest of the vote to win. In short, if social and economic conservatives can't develop genuine solidarity, the president has a good chance of winning four more years.
Right now, such unity is scarce. True, 67% of Tea Party members identify as "pro-life." But the dominant conservative voices are still concerned mainly with taxes and spending. That leaves issues like abortion, marriage, and euthanasia sitting on the sidelines as if the social decline in American society had nothing to do with the sad state of the economy.
In fact, that decline is at the very heart of the fundamental crisis we face. It would be a huge mistake to think that all we need to do is cut taxes and spending, and all will be hunky dory. Fiscal problems are merely the tip of the iceberg.
I hate to break it to some of our better known experts, but our current problems didn't start with the housing bubble, the AIG and bank bailouts, the Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac mortgage crisis, the casino mood on Wall Street, or with bunco artist Bernie Madoff. The roots of our current malaise go back at least 50 years to the moral and spiritual breakdown that began in the late '50's and early '60's.
That's when Americans started believing you could throw all the rules away and not have to pay the piper. It's also when defying the law of God became more popular than defying the law of gravity -- despite the fact that no civilization has ever done so and survived.
As long as we felt "I'm OK" and "You're OK," we were told not to worry about the exploding social costs caused by doubling the divorce rate, aborting 54,000,000 pregnancies, and diminishing respect for life. No segment of society was exempt. Catholics divorced and aborted about the same as everyone else -- except for poor, inner city blacks. Seminaries emptied, thousands of priests got married, and the clergy sex abuse scandal festered while bishops did little or nothing about it until much too late. The church has yet to recover from the carnage.Meanwhile, Playboy clubs and the 2-martini lunch became de riguer for the Madmen of Madison Avenue. Hugh Hefner, Ralph Ginsburg, and Bob Guccione proved there was more money in pornography than in robbing banks.
The attitude was: "If you can make money doing it, it must be okay."
At the same time, little attention was paid to the mounting social costs attached to all this "liberation." Like increasing our prison population by 724% while total population rose only 79%. Bigger and better jails quickly became a necessity, not a luxury.America's famed �work ethic� also went down the tubes. Yes, there are still a great many talented, purposeful young people who are high achievers. But there is also a large subculture of demotivated youth who would rather collect unemployment than work an entry level job. For them, 99 weeks of unemployment is "the dream."
Some were even more disaffected -- like Tucson's Jared Loughner. Our jails and mental institutions are full of troubled young men for whom there was no effective intervention. It is no coincidence that this phenomenon grew apace with a decline in respect for life. �Operation Discard� didn�t stop with the unborn.
Meanwhile, the fastest growing areas of technology often lacked clear, useful purpose. The �ultimate� was the fully-automated factory. Unfortunately, robots never raised a family, bought a house, or educated the next generation of workers and consumers. With the need for fewer workers, the demand side of the equation had to tank.Today, the fastest way to riches is to develop an app that will waste the time of millions: 138 million Americans currently spend 7 hours a week on Facebook. That adds up to 50 billion man hours a year that might otherwise be spent on something more productive. The irony is that a good chunk of that time is spent while people are being paid to do something else -- like working or looking for a job that might take them off the dole.
"We have met the enemy and they is us," said Pogo, making him a prophet for our times.
For all these reasons, it is hardly fair to blame Obama for his lack of success in revitalizing the economy. This decline was building long before Obama came along. I saw it coming as early as 1994 when most Wall Street experts saw nothing but good times ahead. The problem is that most politicians gain and hold power by pandering to the weakest impulses of people. The legislative and judicial history of the last 50 years is littered with examples -- from abortion on demand to no fault divorce to providing 99-weeks of benefits for not working.The cycle continues because politicians know we will keep on electing leaders who tell us the kind of lies we like to hear. Hopefully. the Tea Party movement will bring that cycle to an end, but we can�t be sure. Even now, the loudest voices are the conservatives who promise economic recovery without having to change our ways.
"Just reduce everyone's taxes," they tell us simplistically, "and all your problems will go away." But these things do nothing to solve the problem of runaway social costs, or regenerate a future tax base that has been shattered by 54,000,000 abortions.
Nor does it begin to solve problems like runaway free trade, outsourcing, and the steady destruction of our industrial base. Never mind the challenge of a generation that derived its value system from �sex, drugs, and rock and roll.�
The hard truth is that if America is going to be saved, we have to change.
That's why we need a genuine, grass roots movement dedicated to social and cultural change as much as to reducing taxes, cutting spending, and adopting a more defensive posture toward protecting American jobs. None of this will be easy because social and cultural change are always a matter of changing hearts and minds. And that is a job for politics with a small "p" -- the kind that begins with every citizen facing up to his own personal responsibility for building a better future. Parents need to make this the core value they pass on to their children. We need to raise up another generation who can meet today's challenges the same way the greatest generation met the challenges of fighting a global war on the heels of a great depression, and then created the greatest economic boom the world has ever seen.
Looking for an easier, softer way is not the answer.
Lincoln once said, "While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years." That piece of wisdom is now being tested. We've survived corrupt administrations before. We cannot survive this one unless we the people restore our virtue and our vigilance.
To achieve that, social and economic conservatives must combine their energies and their resources to find new solutions based on a clear vision of the American future.
Such unity has been one of our top priorities ever since The Movement for a Better America began in 1995. But we need your help to achieve it. A better America can�t happen without the help of people like you. To join your voice with ours, contact us today.
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Next Two Years Critical
For Pro-Life Movement
By Dennis Howard
The next two years are critical ones for the pro-life movement if we are to successfully ride the current wave of economic and social conservatism.
Such waves do not come along very often. The last one happened 30 years ago. Nor do they always fulfill their promise. The so-called �Reagan revolution� achieved major changes in economic policy, but failed to hold the line on social issues like abortion.
We can�t afford to let that happen again. That�s why we have to sharpen our message and our strategies if we hope to achieve a pro-life America anytime soon. We need both more persuasive words and more effective action.
Our biggest test is whether we can succeed in winning the hearts and minds of the under-45 generation which has never known a time when abortion was illegal all over America.
Persuading that generation is critical because they are the generation that has been most affected by the moral and social decline of the last 50 years. Socially and economically, that decline has seriously eroded their hopes for a better future.
Yet surveys show that they are much less orthodox in their religious belief and practice than their parents and grandparents. They need to be persuaded that practices like abortion bring predictably disastrous results in this life, not just the next. That�s why we have been spreading the word about the economic impact of abortion through the internet, social networking and talk radio.
The fact is that 54 million abortions have cost us $38 trillion in lost GDP, and that number keeps growing. Social Security and Medicare aren�t in crisis because a lot of old people showed up all of a sudden. Sixty years ago, we knew almost exactly how many retiring Boomers there would be today.
These programs are in crisis because the Baby Bust cut our birth rate in half, and in the process eliminated over 100 million future workers, producers, and taxpayers. That changed the whole demographic equation on which these programs are based.
The politicians want to solve that by raising the retirement age. What they don't tell you is that 15% to 20% of all Americans already die before collecting Social Security. In fact, 32.5% of all black males die before age 65. Raising the retirement age will only increase the economic injustice already built into the system.
Raising the retirement age also won't solve the fundamental problem caused by the birth dearth, which has other implications as well. The economic cost of abortion is just the tip of the iceberg. Right now, families with children who grow up to be productive citizens bear an unjust share of the burden, while those who never had children get an unfair share of the benefits. Solving Social Security can't be accomplished without a thorough, in-depth review of the whole system.
The broader moral and social upheaval of the last 50 years has also wrecked havoc on the fundamentals of our economy. For example, our prison population has grown nearly 10 times faster than our total population since 1958 -- up 745% compared to a 79% growth in population. Throwing the rules away has multiplied our social costs far beyond our ability to pay for them.
That�s a message we have to get across to our friends, the economic conservatives in the Tea Party movement. On talk radio, through the internet, and at rallies. If we fail, these social issues will not receive the front burner attention in the public policy debate that they deserve.
Fortunately, the audience is receptive. Polls show that 67% of Tea Party members identify themselves as pro-life. That makes the Tea Party movement a great place to increase awareness of the economic impact of abortion and other social issues.
However, pro-lifers have to join in and make their voices heard. That's why we have started a Pro-Life Tea Party � not to compete, but to work with others in what is certainly a great new wave. If you want to help make the life issue a part of that larger discussion, join us at http://www.pro-lifeteaparty.com
It is also essential to our success that we build greater unity and solidarity in the pro-life movement. We need to ask: Are we a movement or just a bunch of individuals and organizations?
Unless we reach out to one another, we will fail. American Life League has led the way with its associates program. But in far too many places, churches fail to reach out to pro-life groups, and some pro-life organizations act as if they are the only game in town. Such isolation divides. It doesn�t conquer. Unless we work together, we�ll never achieve the majority we need.
Right now, a great many people seriously underestimate the strength of the block-voting minority that keeps abortion legal and the left in control. If that block vote holds, it will take more than 60% of the rest of the vote in order to defeat it. Without unity and solidarity, that can�t be done.
Don't confuse recent conservative successes in what were essentially 435+ local elections with the next presidential election in 2012 -- when block voting will play a much larger role in the outcome. If the left can pacify the majority with reassuring words and Reaganesque slogans, block voting will rule the day.
We also have to keep our facts straight or risk losing credibility. Just the other day, I ran across a press release from a pro-life group claiming that 43% of all American women have had abortions. Wild exaggerations like that only help the pro-abortion side.
Understatements don't help either. It's amazing how many pro-life leaders still use outdated counts of the abortion toll. Just recently, still another group proclaimed 48 million as the abortion toll.
In fact, based on our careful research, there have been 54 million abortions to date, and the average woman who aborts has had an average of two abortions. That means that an estimated 27 million women have had abortions out of the 116.8 million women who passed through their child-bearing years between 1970 and 2010.
In short, only 23% of all women in their child-bearing years have had abortions. That�s a far cry from 43%! On the positive side, it also means that 77% -- or more than 3 out of 4 American women � have never had an abortion and have no desire to have one.
In short, despite all the propaganda about �choice,� most American women are already pro-life. We just need to encourage them to speak up about it. We won't rest until they do.
Remember that the pro-abortion ideologues get to vote, too. To win this struggle for hearts and minds, we need to do three things: frame the question more positively and persuasively, target the audiences who will decide the future, and put our money where our mouth is.
We also urgently need your help. Without it, America could still become permanently pro-abortion within the foreseeable future. To stop that will take action now. That's why we need your help today.
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Black Abortions & Lynching
By Dennis Howard
One of the great stains on our history is the use of lynching as a form of "vigilante justice" usually driven by mob behavior in the South and West.
What is striking is that lynching came to a gradual end in 1968 at about the time abortion was decriminalized, starting in Colorado in 1967, California in 1968, and New York in 1970. Roe v. Wade followed in 1973.
Since 1967, the best estimates are that there have been 17,237,000 black abortions out of a total of 54,000,000 surgical abortions as of January, 2011.
According to a study by the Tuskegee Institute, a total of 4,743 lynchings occurred between 1882 and 1968 . Of these, 73% (3446) of the victims were blacks and 1,297 (27%) were whites. During and after Reconstruction, estimates are that another 1500 blacks were lynched as part of the effort to regain white political dominance in the South.
That would bring the total of black lynchings since the Civil War to 4,946, and the ratio between abortions and lynchings to a horrifying 3,485 to 1.
In short, as bad as lynching was, abortion is thousands of times more damaging to the black community than lynching. If lynching was genocidal, abortion certainly is.
According to a Wickipedia article on lynching, "the Democratic Party relied on paramilitary 'White Line' groups . . . to terrorize, intimidate and assassinate African American and white Republicans in an organized drive to regain power."
The report added, "Once Democrats regained power in Mississippi, Democrats in other states adopted the 'Mississippi Plan' to control the election of 1876, using informal armed militias to assassinate political leaders, hunt down community members, intimidate and turn away voters, effectively suppressing African American suffrage and civil rights. In state after state, Democrats swept back to power. From 1868 to 1876, most years had 50�100 lynchings." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States
As reprehensible as lynching was, abortion has replaced it as the primary means to suppress black political freedom. And it has done so far more insidiously by posing as a way of helping blacks socially and economically.
I estimate that the total economic loss to the black community at $11 trillion dollars in lost GDP from abortions since 1967. Every abortion eliminates a future worker, producer, taxpayer and consumer. In addition, it has a major "echo" effect by eliminating a great many of those who would raise the next generation.
In short, it represents damage to the black community that can never be undone. All we can hope to do is stop it by changing hearts and minds, and eventually bringing abortion to an end -- like its tragic, genocidal twin: lynching.
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Obamacare:Fast Track to Economic Suicide
By Dennis M. Howard
(c) Copyright, 2011
Economic conservatives are worried about the runaway tax and spend potential of President Obama�s health care initiative. They are worried that "before this thing is through, it could cost us $1.6 trillion and still not solve the health care problem."
But that's not even half the real story.
What the eco-conservatives are overlooking is the hidden cost of federal funding of abortion as part of an �essential benefits package� that will be imposed on everyone unless it is explicitly excluded from the legislation. Right now, the Democrats are opposed to such an exclusion.
If the health care bill passes without this exclusion, taxpayers will be forced to pay for other people's abortions whether they like it or not. And the $1.6 trillion the eco-conservatives are worried about will only be the tip of a very large iceberg.
That's because abortion has a huge hidden economic cost. It's the loss in future GDP represented by all those babies who never had a chance to grow up to become the future workers, consumers, taxpayers, and parents the nation needs to sustain future economic growth.
This is something the younger generation better start worrying about. People under 40 will still be paying taxes 40 to 80 years from now, so they will take the biggest hit from this phenomenon. And since their numbers have already been depleted by abortion, that means even fewer shoulders on which to rest a much bigger burden.
We've already had more than 54 million abortions since 1967. That's a whopping 31% of our under 40 population. If we had a war that took that kind of toll, we would have run up the white flag decades ago. The pro-aborts just don�t give up that easily.
What they don't want to admit is that people are our country�s most important renewable resource. Ever since Roe v. Wade, we�ve been depleting that resource with abandon.
The hidden cost of those 54 million abortions has already reached an estimated $38.5 trillion in lost GDP. Assuming a 33% tax rate, that's nearly enough to pay off our entire current national debt.
If all those kids had lived, we wouldn't be in the mess we�re in.
Looking forward, the picture is even grimmer especially if we keep subsidizing abortion. That�s exactly what the Democrats propose to do by sending you the bill for other people�s abortions.
GDP per capita is now about $46,900 a year, and � until the current slump � it was compounding at a rate of 4% a year. It is a measure that includes everyone from the cradle to the grave. But every baby we abort is one less contributor to GDP � not just for today, but for a lifetime and beyond.
Every child we abort today costs us $25 million in future GDP over a lifetime. And abortion takes a huge toll of other jobs. Babies don't compete for jobs with the rest of us for their first 20 years. They create jobs for everybody else � doctors, nurses, teachers, homebuilders, retailers, you name it.
If there ever was a major job killer, it is the baby-killing industry.
Yet all those nuts we send to Congress continue to subsidize Planned Parenthood to the tune of $350 million a year. That�s about $1,000 for every abortion Planned Parenthood performs. Now Congress wants to compound that by making you pay again . . . and again . . . and again.
So, unless abortion is explicitly excluded from Obama�s health care plan, get ready for even higher taxes. Whether its your abortion or someone else's, you�re going to get the bill.
Planned Parenthood estimates that the number of abortions will rise by 20% or more if the Obama health care bill passes. That will take abortions back to levels not seen since the mid-1980�s. And that means even bigger losses in future GDP.
Thanks to the magic of compounding, by 2040 to 2050, we're already looking at cumulative GDP losses of $400 to $500 trillion dollars just from abortion. Add another 20% to 35% to that, and we're talking about really serious money.
That's why I call Obamacare a "fast track to national suicide." It is far more significant than anything else that threatens us this side of eternal damnation.
In his book, Obamanomics, John Talbott lists "25 Greatest Threats to our Prosperity." (Oddly abortion is not one of them!) High on his list are World Poverty ($100 trillion), Global Warming ($60 trillion), Globalization�s Nasty Side Effects ($60 trillion) . . . all the way down to Terrorism ($5 trillion).
His terrorism tab is laughable. We�ve already exceeded it. And nearly all of the others are based on numbers conjured up in someone�s imagination.
My estimates, on the other hand, are based on hard-rock numbers. GDP per capita is a measure that is used universally throughout the world. Indeed, my estimates are in fact much more conservative than those employed by government agencies like EPA in the cost/benefit analyses they use to plan their spending.
But try telling that to some politician who firmly believes that abortion is some kind of free lunch. Sure, it looks "free" to a guy who wants to avoid the responsibility of paying 21 years of child support, but the baby�s only crime is wanting to call him "Daddy" for the rest of his life.
For the rest of us, it adds up to more of what we have been experiencing for the last 35 years � declining personal incomes, a shrinking economy, lost jobs, rising taxes, and less freedom as the Nanny State takes over more and more of our personal lives.
In short, abortion is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
But you have a choice. If you want bigger tax bills, a grimmer future for your children and grandchildren, and more government encroachment on your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, just go back to sleep and forget you ever read this.
But if you are ready to stand up for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, join our new non-partisan Pro-Life Tea Party to help restore common sense to American politics.
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