No wonder so many Californians have migrated there.The piece, itself, "Feds to Texas: You defunded Planned Parenthood, now we’re defunding you", talks about Texas walking away from Federal Funding for Women's Health over the issue of funding Planned Parenthood.
There is something strange here, or would be strange if the Federal Gov't wasn't using Pixie Dust to fund programs.♠ I could be wrong, but it seems federal funding:
- Comes from taxes that could have been raised locally, but without the cost of the Federal Middleman,
- Are being taken from taxes raised from the taxpayers in some other State and raked off to help your State, or
- Are being taken from the taxpayers in your State for the benefit of folks in some other State.
Regards — Cliff
♠ Of course it is really deficit spending, which is, in the long run, like Pixe Dust. So how long can we go forward on Pixie Dust? It is fiat money, so as long as everyone says it is money it is. Let just one person break the circle and it begins to collapse.
It is indeed interesting....and sad.....that the energy for discussions about Federal funding and our growing addiction to illusory effects of pixie dust amongst the states, the media, and of course, Big Brother, is focused by whether a state is willing to fund Planned Parenthood.
ReplyDeleteThat the chief aim of PP is simply to eliminate inconvenient pregnancies (and soon those newborns who by some metric have not yet achieved "self awareness")should not be a question. Oh sure, they do other "things" for "women's health," but that is much like saying that in the Cold War days, the mission of the Strategic Air Command was to maintain peace, and the ability to bomb an opponent into the stone age was, well, an ancillary service.
Taxation today is indeed "without representation" other than by the most superficial sense of the philosophy. There is a massive Federal bureaucracy that simply consumes in many cases only because it can to sustain itself. Visualize the inner workings of the Department of Energy which has single handedly defied the law of physics that says energy cannot be created or destroyed. The DoE has certainly not created any energy, but it has destroyed a bunch of it simply by converting it into meaningless vapors.
Indeed, the entire Democratic platform is predicated on giving the electorate everything they want while skillfully avoiding that in order to achieve that goal, they will need to take everything you have.
The Republicans on the other hand are still preoccupied by campaign trail makeup and preening in the various spotlights. Beyond that, there is almost zero substance in the muttering that has passed thus far for "campaign rhetoric."
Taxes will continue to soar....and America will continue to sink under its own weight of corruption.
And "No, Jack" I don't have a citation to support my posits...well...other than history.