We Need Planned Parenthood Funding: Keep Abortions Cheap & Available

The government may shut down. But money issues will not be the reason. Republicans have added an unnecessary hurdle to budget negotiations. They want to partially defund Planned Parenthood programs. That's just stupid. The negotiations should be about budgets and not about religion. Further more, tax deductions for children should be balanced with tax deductions for children that are not born. I.E. childless couples tax bills should be reduced by the amount tax deductions reduce couples tax bills with children. Otherwise equal protection has failed. People cause problems. Less people less problems. It's tough to value human life when there are 7 billion of our kind fucking things up. The ideal global population should be app. 250,000,000. That was the population aroun 250 B.C. That was the golden Age of East and West. Ever since then, we have been rearing dumber and dumber slaves.

"Vanity Fair", Graydon Carter, Bono & Africa.

The urbane, effete meets the naive, gritty. The topic is the lost peoples of Africa.

Graydon Carter, the polished, cynical editor of "Vanity Fair" will yield his duties onetime to Bono. Bono is the crusading rock star who has recently discovered the woes of Africa. He will do a guest editing project highlighting those problems and his solutions in an upcoming edition of the magazine.

It appears that Mr. Carter would like to finesse this project to someone who eagerly embraces the challenge. Also, it's a cinch that Carter's staff would not get the circulation boost that Bono might give. I believe that both Carter and Bono mean well. But as the saying goes, " The road to perdition is paved with good intentions".

Simply, Bono's answer to Africa's problem is more of the same, I.E. an industrialization of Africa and massive amounts of aid that only serve to addict to dependancy people who need something else. Africa is different. It's peoples have in large part rejected the western civilization's economic model. The aid that has been indiscriminately despensed to African nations this past 40 years ( amounts to app. $600 billion in todays dollars) has been gobbled up or misused by corrupt governments. The diseases that ravage the African continent have only gotten worse. Of these scourges, malnutrition is the biggest killer. Overpopulation in dry-land ecosystems is the reason.

Africa's salvation lies in an African model not a western civilization model. Africa should be conserved and it's peoples should be the stewards. In this pursuit the west could help by promoting conservation, family planning and tourism