So you find it ok to vote for deregulation which allows increased emissions regarding CO2 or worse Mecury and other harmful chemicals in the air or water?
You are starting to sound like you are practicing relativism and almost imply that social issues are at the same level of importance as life issues. Clearly the Church speaks out loudly against this practice.
Let’s leave that for another thread. Environmentalism is off-topic. This is about Democrats for Life.
I agree just answering your comments about the environment.
you are correct to a point. That is what benifits do we have? Destroying the environment to drill for oil and then destroy the environment by burning that oil in our cars. The car emissions are more than CO2. Is it worth it?
I’m not sure how you found 18 (Senate?). I went through the National Right-to-Life voting records, and I find 8. To increase that to 16, you would need to include a vote in support of cloning and/or financial support for Planned Parenthood.
I’m not sure how you found 18 (Senate?). I went through the National Right-to-Life voting records, and I find 8. To increase that to 16, you would need to include a vote in support of cloning and/or financial support for Planned Parenthood.
capwiz.com/nrlc/scorecard.xc?chamber=H&state=US&session=110&x=13&y=12
Method: I looked at anyone Democrat was over 50% and then looked at the votes they were marked with 0 (Voted Against NRLC). I threw out one of the votes - the Medicare Price Negotiation, because I think that is not a clear pro-life issue. Eight Democrats voted with NRLC on the rest of the issues. Five voted in favor of cloning. Two voted in favor of sending federal “family planning” funds to Planned Parenthood. One voted for both the cloning and Planned Parenthood measures.
Now, if you would like to do the same with Republicans and compare numbers…
Can you name them? I would be interested to see
I would agree that many more republicans vote against abortion issues but that is where the Republican disapoint me like the Democrats do voting on issues that are clearly lacking social concious and not pro-life “out of the womb”Now, if you would like to do the same with Republicans and compare numbers…
Well the only “out of the womb” issues today that are clearly against Catholic teaching are Euthanasia, Cloning and Gay Marriage. Republicans are pretty consistent there.
Please don’t bring up the liberal mantra about tax cuts for the rich. It has nothing to do with abortion and is just plain wrong. Perhaps you favor taking from one citizen to give to another who is not as fortunate. Fine idea in theory, but not in practice. Everyone is not the same, some will work harder than others to achieve, others will not. And there is nothing in the Constitution that says every American has a right to health care. Now, before you jump, I am in favor of helping those who through no fault of their own cannot take care of themselves. But if you are suggesting universal, single payer health care, I am absolutely opposed to that. I almost died living in a country with that system and I know because of my medical background that it never would have happened in this country. General welfare to which you refer can just as easily be thought of as equal opportunity. The closer to the people you can get the service, the better the service will be. The federal government should butt out and let the states run services for the poor.
We live in a society and with in the Constitution of the U.S. it is legal to collect taxes.
If you were not so wrong I would not feel so offended by your response. But the TRUTH about drilling at ANWAR is that they only need to drill in a very small area, a land area smaller than a town of just a couple thousand people, in an area that is the size of a modest state. So yes, we’d sacrifice a FEW square miles out of THOUSANDS. But you also err by implying we would not burn oil in our cars anyway. Venezualan heavy crude is what we will burn instead and it is a very thick, dirty and hard to refine crude oil that wastes far more and costs far more to extract in terms of money and in terms of energy than it would to extract the sweet crude that exists under Alaska’s north slope. Add to that we are still burning oil either way, which means either way we are emitting CO2 and all sorts of other emissions. You simply don’t know your facts and I don’t have the space to explain all of them to you, but my group of snowcat owners (see logo below) has several members who are oil safety engineers, inspectors, etc working in the oil areas of Alaska, Canada and Norway and this is a regular topic of our group. I’d be happy to direct you to photos showing how little environmental impact a whole drilling site actually exerts in the arctic areas.
I have always lived in the states except for spending three years in Canada when my husband was transferred there. I enjoyed my time there, but their health care system leaves much to be desired despite what some Canadians will tell you.
Who sacifices the poor?
I see. you know I always here that argument in the U.S. when subject of what to do with the uninsured. And the right wingers always come up with “Canadians hate their health insurance or Germans hate theirs”. Funny thing is it is not true because I work in Canada and Germany on a daily basis and ask this question to many Canadians and Germans they say that is simply not true.
When you cut education programs, public transportion, food programs it affects the poor.
Who is denying anyone life saving healhcare?
, Yes in the direct path of migrating Elk which would interupt their breeding grounds which also those few thousand natives rely on food source.
That is pretty strong of you to say. care to elaborate how I am stating this falsely.
I do agree with you the Prius, E85 is not a solution. I suggest we invest more in conversation with better fuel standards, use diesel instead of gasoline buring engines. E85 was a knee jerk reaction to gasoline prices with out considering the side effect.