Bill Bennett: Kill All Black Babies, End Crime
Noted Republican offers argument to abort all black fetuses and lower crime.
Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching, extensive extrapolations" by declaring that if "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
From the September 28 broadcast of Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America:
CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn't -- never touches this at all.
BENNETT: Assuming they're all productive citizens?
CALLER: Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it would be an enormous amount of revenue.
BENNETT: Maybe, maybe, but we don't know what the costs would be, too. I think as -- abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No.
CALLER: I don't know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah.
BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I mean, it cuts both -- you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well --
CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.
BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.
Boy, these Republicans have an answer for EVERYTHING.
William Bennett was a former Secretary of Education under Reagan and Director of Public Policy in the War on Drugs under the first Bush. He once stated that "beheading drug-dealers would be a plausible way" of combatting drugs. His best known literary works are The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories and The Children’s Book of Virtues.
Note of Irony: In 2003, it became widely known that Bennett was a high-stakes gambler who had lost millions of dollars in Las Vegas. As a Catholic, Bennett's gambling was not forbidden, but some felt it conflicted with his public image as a leading voice for conservative morals. After Bennett's gambling habit became public knowledge, he claimed he was never addicted to gambling and compared his gambling to responsible drinking.
Responsible, my ass, dude. You drink millions of dollars in beer, that's not responsible drinking. Neither's losing millions of bucks in Vegas, you nimrod.
Note of Irony 2: For a party claiming to be Pro-Life, the Republicans are positively OBSESSED with killing.:
Pat Robertson: Assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to liberate oil
Bill Bennett: Kill black babies to lower crime
George W Bush: Kill Iraqis to liberate them and their oil
Etc. et al: You get the point.
Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching, extensive extrapolations" by declaring that if "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
From the September 28 broadcast of Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America:
CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn't -- never touches this at all.
BENNETT: Assuming they're all productive citizens?
CALLER: Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it would be an enormous amount of revenue.
BENNETT: Maybe, maybe, but we don't know what the costs would be, too. I think as -- abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No.
CALLER: I don't know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah.
BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I mean, it cuts both -- you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well --
CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.
BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.
Boy, these Republicans have an answer for EVERYTHING.
William Bennett was a former Secretary of Education under Reagan and Director of Public Policy in the War on Drugs under the first Bush. He once stated that "beheading drug-dealers would be a plausible way" of combatting drugs. His best known literary works are The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories and The Children’s Book of Virtues.
Note of Irony: In 2003, it became widely known that Bennett was a high-stakes gambler who had lost millions of dollars in Las Vegas. As a Catholic, Bennett's gambling was not forbidden, but some felt it conflicted with his public image as a leading voice for conservative morals. After Bennett's gambling habit became public knowledge, he claimed he was never addicted to gambling and compared his gambling to responsible drinking.
Responsible, my ass, dude. You drink millions of dollars in beer, that's not responsible drinking. Neither's losing millions of bucks in Vegas, you nimrod.
Note of Irony 2: For a party claiming to be Pro-Life, the Republicans are positively OBSESSED with killing.:
Pat Robertson: Assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to liberate oil
Bill Bennett: Kill black babies to lower crime
George W Bush: Kill Iraqis to liberate them and their oil
Etc. et al: You get the point.
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