Biden Says He's Not 'Second-Guessing' China's One-Child Rule

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"Vice President Biden is facing criticism after telling a crowd in China that he doesn’t have a problem with the country’s one-child policy.

The vice president addressed the policy while answering a question about the U.S. budget deficit at a university in Chengdu on Sunday. He was trying to explain how China has a looming entitlement crisis on its hands because its strict enforcement of the one-child-per-family rule has essentially eroded the “safety net” for seniors. Fewer children means fewer people earning money and supporting retirees.

But in explaining that concept, Biden appeared to condone China’s policy.

“You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand – I’m not second-guessing – of one child per family,” Biden said, according to the official transcript of the event. “The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable.”

Conservative groups, and at least one GOP presidential candidate, slammed the vice president for the remark.

“Really, Mr. Vice President? You’re not second-guessing a policy that has resulted in untold numbers of forced abortions, forced sterilizations, outrageous fines or even jail time for families that dare to defy the law, and a gender imbalance crisis?” the Susan B. Anthony List said on its blog. … ."

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So very very sad. Yet, so very very Biden.
 
Note to Joe: this is what happens when “political correctness” over rules your Faith. Remember your Catechism Joe?
 
He is a pathetic human being. Good thing he wasn’t born in China and was a female. It is difficult but he is in my prayers.😦
 
Another fine Catholic politician bringing scandal onto the Church. Thanks, Biden.

Allow me to take this opportunity to yet again thank the majority of Catholic voters who gave us the most radical abortion proponents to ever run this country. Also, to the American bishops whose silence amounted to a tacit endorsement. The record numbers of unemployed and on food stamps thank you as well.

I would suggest those voters committed grave sin, though I am confident the vast majority are excused through invincible ignorance,
 
“Pro-choice” People don’t have a problem with forced abortions. This is the norm.
 
Another fine Catholic politician bringing scandal onto the Church. Thanks, Biden.

Allow me to take this opportunity to yet again thank the majority of Catholic voters who gave us the most radical abortion proponents to ever run this country. Also, to the American bishops whose silence amounted to a tacit endorsement. The record numbers of unemployed and on food stamps thank you as well.

I would suggest those voters committed grave sin, though I am confident the vast majority are excused through invincible ignorance,
 
Even if he said exactly what the article quotes him as saying (not always the case), I don’t interpret his comments as indicating that he agrees with China’s one-child policy. I think he chose his words poorly, no more.
 
Alan55 said:
Even if he said exactly what the article quotes him as saying (not always the case), I don’t interpret his comments as indicating that he agrees with China’s one-child policy. I think he chose his words poorly, no more.
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Really?

Joe Biden?
Really?
 
Alan55 said:
C’mon. Joe Biden does not agree that a national government, Chinese, U.S., or Lichtenstein, should force families to have only one child. So yes, really.
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Sure would be nice if the man could talk a straight sentence -
without his typical equivocations. Oops - he can’t. I forgot.
 
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