Bragi
July 18th, 2004, 11:44 PM
Forty Phenomenal Federal Flops
*amended
Implemented by the American woman who received the vote with the Nineteenth Amendment in 1921, became the majority voter in the 1960s, and now constitutes 11.6% more of the vote than men.
Pythagorean theorem: 24 words.
The Lord's prayer: 66 words.
Archimedes' Principle: 67 words.
The 10 Commandments: 179 words.
The Gettysburg Address: 286 words.
The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words.
The US Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words.
* The real terrorism: a government "solution".
* What has the federal government done for you lately?
* Which federal program would survive a simple cost/benefit analysis?
* Government spending per household now exceeds median men's income by 7%.
* Did the Nineteenth Amendment convert the US from a republic to a totalitarian state?
* Is the US education system so bad that citizens no longer understand the original spirit & intent of the US Constitution?
* Demand answers to those questions as well as a cost/benefit analyses of the following 29 phenomenal federal flops!
* Join the Society for the Critique of Feminism http://www.stanford.edu/~john1/SCF.html
1) "The War on Poverty", followed by an increase in the "poverty level" from 11.1% to 15.1%, a massive breakdown of families, a quintupling in the illegitimacy rate, the expenditure of more money to "fight poverty" than the stock value of every Fortune 500 Corporation and each acre of U.S. farm land, combined. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
2) "The War on Drugs", followed by a 48% increase in drug usage, the treatment of a health problem as a criminal problem, the incarceration of as many as 700,000 drug users, the unwarranted expenditure of $240 Billion per year to "fight drug abuse". Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
3) "The War on Crime" and the Omnibus Crime Act signed by Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s was followed by a quadrupling in the incarceration rate, concurrent with a tripling of the murder rate, a decrease in the percent of murders resolved from 92% to 63%, and the unwarranted expenditure of $350 Billion per year to "fight crime". Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
4) "The War Against Drinking Drivers", followed by an increase in Motor Vehicle Fatalities from 45,853 in 1975 to 46,900 in 1989, the treatment of a health problem as a criminal problem, 1,624,000 unnecessary and unconstitutional arrests per year, incarceration of 58,700 drinking drivers, many of whom had never even had a ticket nor an accident in the past, the unwarranted expenditure of $18 Billion per year to "fight drunk drivers". Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
5) "The War Against Illiteracy" and the creation of the US Department of Education, followed by a 98 point plunge in SAT scores, placement of the US in 27th place out of 31 nations in the IAEP test and dead last in more TIMSS subjects than any other country, the unwarranted federal expenditure of $72 Billion per year "fight illiteracy". The Catholic Church produces morally and academically superior students at a third the cost per student within the borders of the US, and will be given this responsibility 100%. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
6) "The War Against Child Abuse", The Mondale Act and CAPTA, were followed by an increase in child abuse, a 28 fold increase in "unsubstantiated" allegations of child sexual abuse, the destruction of tens of millions of families, the false imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of innocent parents, the unwarranted expenditure of $285 Billion per year to "fight child abuse". Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
7) "The War in Vietnam", killed 2 million Vietnamese & 47,629 American men, delivered Vietnam to Communism forever, the unwarranted expenditure of $200 Billion. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war".
8) Medicare and Medicaid, became law in 1965, followed by a reduction in the percent of US workers with fully paid health insurance from 91% to 35%, a 30% increase in cancer deaths from 160.8 deaths per 100,000 population to 206, the unwarranted increase in health care expenditures from $14.2 Billion to $355.4 Billion per year, costs twice as much as a percent of GDP than Japan or Australia whose men live 4 years longer. If not for privately funded cardiovascular research which greatly reduced heart disease deaths, the US mortality rate would have increased 6%. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so it will be terminated.
9) Abortions, legalized in 1973 to "reduce unwanted pregnancies", followed by a quintupling of the illegitimacy rate, a doubling of the divorce rate, one out of five childbirths in intact families conceived in adultery, and a quadrupling of the rate of fatherlessness from 9% to 37%. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so they will be terminated.
10) Social security, a "retirement" fund, predicted by every credible politician to be in bankruptcy before most of those who contributed to it will receive any benefits, which disburses already one third of all funds to those who did not retire and who did not contribute to it in the first place, would not survive the most basic cost/benefit analysis. Men and families and children received far fewer benefits from this federal law than its cost, so it will be terminated.
11) The birth control pill , legalized to reduce the demand for abortions, followed by an increase in the number of abortions per year to 1.6 million, a reduction in the marriage and birth rates, and the reduction of the role of men to sperm donors and play toys. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law.
12) Affirmative Action, intentionally and unconstitutionally discriminatory against men, failed to raise the status of women and minorities, reduced their incomes 66%, forced key US industry off-shore, increased racial and sex-discrimination conflicts, led to the unwarranted expenditure of$800 Billion per year in legal fees and damages to "fight inequality". Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so it will be terminated.
13) "The Pension Benefit Guaranty Association", created in 1974 by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, failed to "give more benefits and rights and success in the area of labor management", plunged the percent of the workforce with a pension plan from 39.4% to 24%. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so it will be terminated.
14) School Prayer, outlawed in 1963, displaced by destructive, anti-family, and anti-male feminist ideology. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so school prayer will be reinstated and constitutionally protected and public education will be banned.
15) "The 1964 Civil Rights Act", failed to benefit blacks, led to an increase in the rate of incarceration of blacks under 30 years of age from 31% to 71%, an increase in their rate of fatherlessness from 29% to 70%, a 65% decrease in their median incomes, put twice as many black men in prison as were slaves during the height of slavery. Men and families and children (particularly blacks) did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so it will be terminated.
*amended
Implemented by the American woman who received the vote with the Nineteenth Amendment in 1921, became the majority voter in the 1960s, and now constitutes 11.6% more of the vote than men.
Pythagorean theorem: 24 words.
The Lord's prayer: 66 words.
Archimedes' Principle: 67 words.
The 10 Commandments: 179 words.
The Gettysburg Address: 286 words.
The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words.
The US Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words.
* The real terrorism: a government "solution".
* What has the federal government done for you lately?
* Which federal program would survive a simple cost/benefit analysis?
* Government spending per household now exceeds median men's income by 7%.
* Did the Nineteenth Amendment convert the US from a republic to a totalitarian state?
* Is the US education system so bad that citizens no longer understand the original spirit & intent of the US Constitution?
* Demand answers to those questions as well as a cost/benefit analyses of the following 29 phenomenal federal flops!
* Join the Society for the Critique of Feminism http://www.stanford.edu/~john1/SCF.html
1) "The War on Poverty", followed by an increase in the "poverty level" from 11.1% to 15.1%, a massive breakdown of families, a quintupling in the illegitimacy rate, the expenditure of more money to "fight poverty" than the stock value of every Fortune 500 Corporation and each acre of U.S. farm land, combined. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
2) "The War on Drugs", followed by a 48% increase in drug usage, the treatment of a health problem as a criminal problem, the incarceration of as many as 700,000 drug users, the unwarranted expenditure of $240 Billion per year to "fight drug abuse". Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
3) "The War on Crime" and the Omnibus Crime Act signed by Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s was followed by a quadrupling in the incarceration rate, concurrent with a tripling of the murder rate, a decrease in the percent of murders resolved from 92% to 63%, and the unwarranted expenditure of $350 Billion per year to "fight crime". Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
4) "The War Against Drinking Drivers", followed by an increase in Motor Vehicle Fatalities from 45,853 in 1975 to 46,900 in 1989, the treatment of a health problem as a criminal problem, 1,624,000 unnecessary and unconstitutional arrests per year, incarceration of 58,700 drinking drivers, many of whom had never even had a ticket nor an accident in the past, the unwarranted expenditure of $18 Billion per year to "fight drunk drivers". Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
5) "The War Against Illiteracy" and the creation of the US Department of Education, followed by a 98 point plunge in SAT scores, placement of the US in 27th place out of 31 nations in the IAEP test and dead last in more TIMSS subjects than any other country, the unwarranted federal expenditure of $72 Billion per year "fight illiteracy". The Catholic Church produces morally and academically superior students at a third the cost per student within the borders of the US, and will be given this responsibility 100%. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
6) "The War Against Child Abuse", The Mondale Act and CAPTA, were followed by an increase in child abuse, a 28 fold increase in "unsubstantiated" allegations of child sexual abuse, the destruction of tens of millions of families, the false imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of innocent parents, the unwarranted expenditure of $285 Billion per year to "fight child abuse". Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war", so it will be terminated.
7) "The War in Vietnam", killed 2 million Vietnamese & 47,629 American men, delivered Vietnam to Communism forever, the unwarranted expenditure of $200 Billion. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this "war".
8) Medicare and Medicaid, became law in 1965, followed by a reduction in the percent of US workers with fully paid health insurance from 91% to 35%, a 30% increase in cancer deaths from 160.8 deaths per 100,000 population to 206, the unwarranted increase in health care expenditures from $14.2 Billion to $355.4 Billion per year, costs twice as much as a percent of GDP than Japan or Australia whose men live 4 years longer. If not for privately funded cardiovascular research which greatly reduced heart disease deaths, the US mortality rate would have increased 6%. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so it will be terminated.
9) Abortions, legalized in 1973 to "reduce unwanted pregnancies", followed by a quintupling of the illegitimacy rate, a doubling of the divorce rate, one out of five childbirths in intact families conceived in adultery, and a quadrupling of the rate of fatherlessness from 9% to 37%. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so they will be terminated.
10) Social security, a "retirement" fund, predicted by every credible politician to be in bankruptcy before most of those who contributed to it will receive any benefits, which disburses already one third of all funds to those who did not retire and who did not contribute to it in the first place, would not survive the most basic cost/benefit analysis. Men and families and children received far fewer benefits from this federal law than its cost, so it will be terminated.
11) The birth control pill , legalized to reduce the demand for abortions, followed by an increase in the number of abortions per year to 1.6 million, a reduction in the marriage and birth rates, and the reduction of the role of men to sperm donors and play toys. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law.
12) Affirmative Action, intentionally and unconstitutionally discriminatory against men, failed to raise the status of women and minorities, reduced their incomes 66%, forced key US industry off-shore, increased racial and sex-discrimination conflicts, led to the unwarranted expenditure of$800 Billion per year in legal fees and damages to "fight inequality". Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so it will be terminated.
13) "The Pension Benefit Guaranty Association", created in 1974 by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, failed to "give more benefits and rights and success in the area of labor management", plunged the percent of the workforce with a pension plan from 39.4% to 24%. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so it will be terminated.
14) School Prayer, outlawed in 1963, displaced by destructive, anti-family, and anti-male feminist ideology. Men and families and children did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so school prayer will be reinstated and constitutionally protected and public education will be banned.
15) "The 1964 Civil Rights Act", failed to benefit blacks, led to an increase in the rate of incarceration of blacks under 30 years of age from 31% to 71%, an increase in their rate of fatherlessness from 29% to 70%, a 65% decrease in their median incomes, put twice as many black men in prison as were slaves during the height of slavery. Men and families and children (particularly blacks) did not benefit in any way from this federal law, so it will be terminated.