PAT CADDELL ATTACKS MINORITY VOTE | 2004-11-06
Actually, what Pat Caddell (former top Jimmy Carter adviser) complained about was that the Hispanics "voted for what the rich people wanted" on the embryonic stem cell referendum in California.
Caddell is no pro-lifer, but he is anti-science. I mentioned the 1969 Mule Train betow, when the entire civil rights leadership showed up at the beginning of the Moon Launch in 1969 to protest the fact that the money for going to the moon didn't go to welfare programs.
Liberals want every crisis to be an excuse for bureaucrats to take more power. Their answer to the gasoline shortage is for the government to decide who gets gasoline and to impose more regulations on cars, heat and everything else.
Technology ruins many great crises that could lead to a government crackdown. Science and the free market both deal with problems liberals want bureaucrats to deal with.
Opponents of the moon program were united with many conservatives. They all opposed "shooting money out into space." One reader objected to my praise of the moon launch here and said we might as well have spent the money on Tang research.
It just shows how conservatives can be REALLY stupid. Every person with a pacemaker owes his life to the moon launch, not to Tang research. Silicon Valley was a product of the moon launch. This computer, this computer, is a product of the moon launch.
The list is endless.
So the nut right and the nut left are in cahoots again. Caddell wants all that research money spent on bureaucrats and the little bit of welfare money that those bureaucrats let filter down to the barrios.
Those who consider the lives of two fertilized eggs to be more important than a child are with Caddell.
Actually, you could save DOZENS of fertilized eggs for the money a desperately ill child uses up in the emergency room. All those tens of thousands of dollars we waste saving a child could be used to get in there and prevent poor women from miscarrying.
The problem is that nobody thinks that logic is actually sane.