New Orleans Times Picayune: "LaBruzzo: Sterilization plan fights poverty"

[Swamp Rat]

LaBruzzo: Sterilization plan fights poverty
Tying poor women's tubes could help taxpayers, legislator says
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
By Mark Waller

Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.

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LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government. He said he is gathering statistics now.

"What I'm really studying is any and all possibilities that we can reduce the number of people that are going from generational welfare to generational welfare," he said.

He said his program would be voluntary. It could involve tubal ligation, encouraging other forms of birth control or, to avoid charges of gender discrimination, vasectomies for men.

It also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.

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*hint* - LaBruzzo comes from the same place, and has the same supporters as David Duke. ;)

[bluestateguy]

1. Why won't John McCain reject and denounce this racist proposal?

Does he implicitly condone it by his silence?

[Swamp Rat]

3. LaBruzzo is a state legislator.

I doubt McIdiot knows about this.

[jobycom]

2. That name sounds familiar. Has he been stupid before?

[Swamp Rat]

4. Well, he wants to give pay raises to himself and all his colleagues who screwed up after Katrina,

and wants to eliminate the Causeway Bridge Police (bridge over Lake Ponchartrain).

[jobycom]

13. Actually, after a quick bit of research, I think I knew who he was when we were kids.

According to Wikipedia, he's five years younger, but he went to St Stanislaus, in Bay St. Louis, and I knew a few people there, and all over Bay St. Louis. Plus I think there was a LaBruzzo my age, or near it, with a similar first name to mine. Joey, or Jody... Could be wrong on that. There was a rumor of another Joby in Bay St. Louis (I was in Gulfport by then), and some people told me his last name was LaBruzzo. There was also a Jody Compretta, similar to my name, that people confused with my name. He was recently killed, actually, in a Mardi Gras float accident. Once in high school I showed up late, and all my friends said they had heard I was in the hospital or dead, because the other Joby (whatever his name really was) was in a car accident. Back then towns like Bay St. Louis and Gulfport were small enough to report car accidents on slow days.

Anyway, vague memories, but that's why the name sounded familiar. Yeah, I'm rambling. It's late. :)

[Swamp Rat]

17. St. Stanislaus

Growing up I met lots of dudes from St. Stanislaus, Brother Martin, Holy Cross, Jesuit, et al, as I went to a Catholic high school too. ;)

[jobycom]

18. I wound up at Coast Episcopal for a couple of years, but my parents

went to Catholic schools in New Orleans. I can't remember which ones my parents went to, sadly. Dad's was by the lake, and was later combined with another one. Maybe St. Aloysius--at least I've heard them mention that one a lot. It's now Brother Martin.

Mom's was by Magazine Street and Napoleon. Maybe St Stephens? Was it around in the 50s?

[lurky]

5. This shit's like polio.

You think it's been eradicated, then it pops up somewhere else.

[ContraBass Black]

6. Do you shit me?

Even after the instant gentrification of Katrina, they're going to offer cash to desperate people for eugenic sterilization?

[Swamp Rat]

10. Metairie, LA. is a suburb of New Orleans whose residents almost put David Duke into office

Metairie was the first place to receive the 'white flight' from New Orleans, though many have moved to the North Shore of Lake Ponchartrain (Covington) where they can be more open about their racism (there's a lotta gold folks in Metairie too). Backed by 90% of the people, Covington Sheriff Jack Strain profiles black people and all people who wear dreadlocks. After Katrina, he told his deputies to arrest any black person they saw.

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/historyprofiles/ss/news080406_9.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5546068
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20060710q

I have no links, but someone I trust has told me Sheriff Jack Strain is a member of the KKK.

[Leopolds Ghost]

19. Metairie is in Jefferson Parish, the one who shot at people fleeing over the bridge on foot

And ratified the policy afterwards (Gov. Jindal, also from
Jefferson Parish -- Kenner -- next door to David Duke's digs --
also supports shooting at people trying to leave on foot.
What? You thought people of Indian descent aren't racist?
That's where the whole "Aryan" myth came from.

If that's scary, check out the families who run St. Bernard Parish

(who shot at people leaving the Lower 9th ward on foot)...

[LibertyorDeath]

7. Someone should Sterilize thisNazi permanetly

I saw this scumbag on Rachel Maddow's show MSNBC she had a clip of him spewing his hate.

Just unreal....

Great to see you back here Swamp Rat !

I've got The McStone Age as my Desktop.... Love it !!

[Swamp Rat]

16. Way'at LibertyorDeath!

:hi: Thanks! I enjoyed making that pic a lot. :D

:toast:

[EFerrari]

8. Some @sshole has been trotting this idea out since time immemorial.

I think they're losing. :evilgrin:

[Selatius]

9. Correct me if wrong, but wouldn't it be easier to simply teach comprehensive sex ed in Louisiana?

Where is reason? Or do people check reason at the door whenever the Southern Baptist Convention protesting the teaching of "immorality" is involved?

[Swamp Rat]

11. Actually, it would be easier on all of us if people like LaBruzzo held their breath for about 30 min

:)

[ContraBass Black]

12. Sex ed empowers people to act in their own interest.

Can't have that, now.

[Quantess]

14. Question: Do social conservatives like this idea? Or hate it?

They might be in favor, because it prevents abortions. Infertile women won't be getting abortions. And, they might even like the idea of fewer black babies.

They might be opposed, because then women will have extramarital sex without the consequences of pregnancy (those sluts!) This encourages immoral sluttiness, and makes their God jealous and angry.

Does anyone know?

[Retrograde]

15. He needs to think this through

if all the "lower orders" take advantage of these sterilizations, who's going to clean the houses, mow the lawns and otherwise wait on the "uppers"? :sarcasm: