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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-06-10 03:26 PM
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34. The "fighting for freedom from intrusion" line always makes me go "huh?"
Take one hundred teabaggers and ask them a series of questions:

q1: Do you believe life begins at conception?
My guess is 95 to 98 percent of the teabaggers would say yes. There's no way you'd ever get 100 percent on anything.

q2: Do you believe innocent pre-born life should be protected?
The same people who answered yes to the first question would answer yes to this one as well.

q3: Would you support the creation of a government agency to end abortion?
You MIGHT get a drop to 85 teabaggers, but you would still have an overwhelming majority.

q4: This government agency would cost the American taxpayer $52 billion per year and employ 225,000 workers. Would you still support the creation of this agency?
I didn't pull these numbers out of the air--that's the budget and personnel strength of the Department of Homeland Security. So basically, we'd be creating a second DHS just to keep women from having abortions. And once again, you'd get a drop but it wouldn't be that big--you're looking at maybe 75 teabaggers who would support doing this.

On this statement I can be positive: every teabagger claims to be for freedom and against the government being able to intrude into your personal life. But if you were to say you wanted to literally turn America into a communist country to stop abortion, they'd all be "yeah! Sign me right up!"
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