CHENEY: "Let Them Eat Imaginary Yellowcake"
Some priorities, please.
LONDON, England (AP) -- About 3.6 million people face starvation in the West African nation of Niger unless the international community responds urgently to the food crisis there, the aid agency Oxfam said Thursday.(P.S. OK, Cheney didn't really say that. I confess.)
Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, was devastated by an invasion of locusts that ate everything green last year and was then hit by drought that lasted until earlier this month. The U.N.'s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, said earlier this week that 2.5 million people in landlocked Niger were in desperate need of food after the world community ignored U.N. appeals for urgent aid. Oxfam estimated that almost one million children were at risk.
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>>Oxfam estimated that almost one million children were at risk.<<
1.2 million abortions in the US last year... a deafening silence from the Left.
One of the underreported facts of recent years has been the increase in the number of abortions since President Bush took office. Unfortunately, the economic policies of this administration -- including a failure to address health care and the uninsured -- are at least partially to blame. People make different choices about having children when they are squeezed economically or unable to secure health care, for example. Those who seek a reduction in the number of abortions, which is a sizeable majority of Americans who believe it should be safe, legal and rare, should be fighting like crazy for sensible economic and health care policies.
Interesting theory, but mostly it's a moral problem rather than an economic one. If Hillary and her ilk were really serious about caring to make abortion " safe, legal and rare ", they'd been touring the country speaking to the problem to both Left and Right as a moral issue.
It's long past time for all of us to recognize that economic issues *are* moral issues. And that the two are intertwined in many areas that we often separate in our politics -- abortion is a prime example.
So global warming aside, it's only a matter of time before we resume disposing grandma and grandpa on the ice floes ?
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