{"id":1494,"date":"2007-05-09T21:11:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T02:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2007-05-09T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T02:14:06","slug":"whats-good-for-the-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s good for the goose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regionbroad.com\/index.php\/site\/enraged_thatd_be_one_way_to_put_it\/\">Broad<\/a> and I have been having a discussion about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=2&#038;aid=122597\">this story<\/a>. Lest you have to read through the whole deal, it&#8217;s about money being spent on vets with VD for continuing care or disability.<\/p>\n<p>Broad is incensed. She believes there should be a class action lawsuit about this. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I disagree. And I commented as such. I am for anything that helps a former serviceman or woman. Sure, there are some who game the system- but I&#8217;m confident that in pretty much all the cases, the GI&#8217;s in question are genuinely disabled. Broad&#8217;s feeling is, these guys stuck their stuff where it oughtn&#8217;t have been stuck (and brings up the old chestnut about rape) and shouldn&#8217;t be compensated. As for the rape: I&#8217;ve known a LOT of servicemen and women. Rape is NOT a government-sponsored activity. Rape is NOT A WEAPON OF WAR USED BY THE USA. It IS, by the way, a weapon of war used by all islamic groups.  A rapist in the US military would be a rapist anywhere. <\/p>\n<p>So MY feeling is that when there are no more tax dollars being spent on abortion, I&#8217;d begin to be concerned about the money being spent on GI&#8217;s who contracted VD in the service of our country. <\/p>\n<p>broad called that &#8220;A typically male thing to say&#8221; a statement which is purely sexist in and of itself. You don&#8217;t even have to be human to make this syllogism: <\/p>\n<p>Females get pregnant through casual sex. <\/p>\n<p>Males and females contract VD through casual sex. <\/p>\n<p>Females who get pregnant get tax money to end their pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Females and males who contract VD  should get tax money to treat that VD. <\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to google much to find a lot of taxpayer funding used for abortion, California is waist deep in it, with over 34 million being spent in 1998 alone. (Medi-Cal Report:  Medi-Cal Funded Induced Abortions 1998, Medical Care Statistics Sect., Dept. of Health Svcs. May  2000) <\/p>\n<p>No, not all states have it. <\/p>\n<p>Actually, if you read the linked reference, you&#8217;ll find that it isn&#8217;t in fact the VD that most of the GI&#8217;s are collecting for, but the amount of disability they have incurred due to the disease. <\/p>\n<p>Bottomline is, what is good for the gander is good for the goose- and gander. As I said in Broad&#8217;s comments, I have sympathy for the woman who wants an abortion. She did something stupid to get to that condition, but we ALL DO STUPID THINGS. <\/p>\n<p>If I have two people in my office, and each one needs $100, and I have $100, and I have a choice between giving it to someone who had incautious sex, or someone who had incautious sex in the service of our country, I&#8217;m giving the $100 to the GI every time. Specifically, because liberals will be around to take another $100 from me,and give it to the other person anyway. And additionally because the overweening hatred liberals have for the military would make them say things like &#8220;there ought to be a class action lawsuit&#8221;. By the way, in EVERY state, there are people getting free treatment for the venerial disease they contracted during casual sex, from medicaid. <\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Broad. No sexism. No male anything. Nothing but facts: if one person deserves medical treatment as a result of casual sex, ALL DO. <\/p>\n<p>Be nice, y&#8217;all, Broad is a good friend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broad and I have been having a discussion about this story. Lest you have to read through the whole deal, it&#8217;s about money being spent on vets with VD for continuing care or disability. Broad is incensed. She believes there should be a class action lawsuit about this. Well, I disagree. And I commented as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}