THERE IS NO CASTRATION FEAR  11:08 am September 24, 2008

Louisiana State Rep Suggests Ending Poverty By Ending Poor People

by Sara K. Smith

No more chimbley sweeps!You know what Louisiana Republicans love? Constructing elaborate state-funded schemes for tinkering with the loins of undesirables. First comes Governor Bobby Jindal’s amazing proposal to castrate sex offenders, and now some kook in Metairie wants to pay poor women $1000 to have their tubes tied so that they will quit squirting out orphans to suckle at the government teat. Wait, what? A Republican in favor of state-funded birth control? Well, why the hell not?

Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.

[...] “What I’m really studying is any and all possibilities that we can reduce the number of people that are going from generational welfare to generational welfare, ” he said.

He said his program would be voluntary. It could involve tubal ligation, encouraging other forms of birth control or, to avoid charges of gender discrimination, vasectomies for men.

It also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.

Ha ha, sounds like a great plan, except for the part where you encourage all the wealthy elites to have more wealthy elite babies. The last thing the world needs is more Wonkette readers.

LaBruzzo considering plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have tubes tied [Times-Picayune]

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ellette September 24, 2008 at 11:11 am

I can haz communism?

ManchuCandidate September 24, 2008 at 11:11 am

Great plan, but who will the eelights delight in lording over when the poors are all gone?

spontaneousabortion September 24, 2008 at 11:11 am

Oh sure, why not? That kind of program has really worked well for the stray cat population here.

loquaciousmusic September 24, 2008 at 11:13 am

Why does this man want to ban The Tubes?

columnv September 24, 2008 at 11:13 am

That would also solve the mortgage crisis, as Cavuto proved the other day that it was the blacks’ fault, right?

BTW, in the interest of full disclosure, I’m neither black or poor. Oh, and I’m not Italian.

4tehlulz September 24, 2008 at 11:13 am

You know what this country needs? A robust eugenics program to eliminate the parasites on society, centered on Wall Street.

mattbolt September 24, 2008 at 11:14 am

Good God, what kind of person would voluntarily go along with this scheme? “Yeah, I’m pretty much worthless, and I know my kids will be worthless too and will have no chance at bettering themselves. That’s why I’m willing to castrate myself, and in exchange the government, who agrees that I and all of my possibly offspring are lower than dirt, will pay me a month’s rent.”

NoWireHangers September 24, 2008 at 11:14 am

At long last, Eugenics makes it’s long-awaited debut in twenty-first century political discourse! I mean, I knew it would get here eventually, but not this soon! We’re really on the fast track to the Apocalypse. Better start shopping!

Hunter Gathers September 24, 2008 at 11:15 am

Is everyone in Louisiana fucking insane? Is it me or did this fucktard just re-define eugenics? A plague on crazy white people from Louisiana (especially James Carville).

Sussemilch September 24, 2008 at 11:15 am

And therein lies the French-Fry Fallacy; that there will still be people willing to to the crappy jobs if everyone is born to wealth.

Gopherit v2.0 September 24, 2008 at 11:16 am

Hmmm. Not so much Modest Proposal than something I’d expect to see in the NYT comments.

[re=105641]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Indeed. Who will give me my foot rubs and bring me my beverages?

Voyou Charmant September 24, 2008 at 11:16 am

I’m torn on this, part of me actually dislikes this, part of me thinks this actually makes sense.

Would it seem less vile if they simply offered the program for free? Is it the fact that they are offering $1000? I’m not sure.

erymanthian bore September 24, 2008 at 11:16 am

What the poors in Lousiana need is more Abstinence education. Worked in Alaska.

Voyou Charmant September 24, 2008 at 11:16 am

[re=105641]ManchuCandidate[/re]: the less elite, less wealthy.

4everjung September 24, 2008 at 11:16 am

A little too late for that Palin girl.

Kev-O-Tron September 24, 2008 at 11:17 am

“The last thing the world needs is more Wonkette readers.”—>Badda BING!

But seriously folks, I’m not using this equipment for anything anyways… Well…anything other than my own enjoyment.

PrairiePossum September 24, 2008 at 11:18 am

Wall Street investment firms are begging for an opportunity to drain the government teat. When are we going to castrate them?

sanantonerose September 24, 2008 at 11:18 am

Hey, you offer this deal to any DUDE? He’ll take the money and run, sho nuff.

rambone September 24, 2008 at 11:18 am

So what happens as the economy tanks and the middle class suddenly finds itself impoverished? Will they get retroactive sterilizations (death squads) ?

user-of-owls September 24, 2008 at 11:18 am

It would only take $10 from 100 Wonkers to cut that $1000 check to Mrs. LaBruzzo.

SayItWithWookies September 24, 2008 at 11:19 am

LaBruzzo said other, mainstream strategies for attacking poverty, such as education reforms and programs informing people about family planning issues, have repeatedly failed to solve the problem.

Oh — um — yeah. Because whenever I think of Louisiana, the first thing that springs to mind is their pioneering efforts in education and family planning.

JohnnyMac September 24, 2008 at 11:19 am

“In a somewhat different configuration, it is the same district that sent white supremacist David Duke to the Legislature in 1989.”

nuff said.

columnv September 24, 2008 at 11:19 am

[re=105647]NoWireHangers[/re]: You see, the reason this will fail is that it’s too explicitly a program of eugenics. The State will succeed when it can more thoroughly embed a program of eugenics in something more discrete.

WadISay September 24, 2008 at 11:19 am

The Repubs are probably working on technology to turn the poor into ethanol, so they have something to chant about at their 2012 convention.

columnv September 24, 2008 at 11:20 am

[re=105652]Voyou Charmant[/re]: You’re torn on spaying and neutering black people? Really?

Strongy O September 24, 2008 at 11:21 am

Why when Republicans start discussing the miracle of birth does it always end up as some kind of Cronenberg movie scenario?

Monkey September 24, 2008 at 11:21 am

This plan is such as waste of tax payer dollars! The answer, duh, is just stop feeding the poors! They will die off for free! And with all the xtra cash, we can simply manufacture slaves from test tubes, ones that don’t need food, and it’ll be Utopia! Just like that Ishiguro novel!

dave666 September 24, 2008 at 11:22 am

Can I claim my $1000 bucks from simple abstinence? If so, I have a lot of dough coming.

Hunter Gathers September 24, 2008 at 11:22 am

[re=105668]WadISay[/re]: They can call it Soylent Gas. IT’S MADE OUT OF PEOPLE!!!!

user-of-owls September 24, 2008 at 11:22 am

[re=105668]WadISay[/re]: Kill here, kill now!

Gopherit v2.0 September 24, 2008 at 11:22 am

[re=105660]sanantonerose[/re]: Gotta throw in a bag of ice and some percocet, too.

Carrie_Okie September 24, 2008 at 11:22 am

Arbeit Macht Frei, y’all.

hockeymom September 24, 2008 at 11:24 am

Paging Dr. Mengele, paging Dr. Mengele.

NoWireHangers September 24, 2008 at 11:25 am

[re=105641]ManchuCandidate[/re]: The riches will slowly pick each other off; the butter will separate from the cream, etc. Clearly the nouveau riche will have stronger fightin’ skillz since they haven’t yet enjoyed the crippling effects of decades of in-blue-blood-breeding like your Rockerfellers and Carnegies. However, the old money families will be better skilled in dirty fighting, backstabbery, and poisoning. The McMansions of the suburbs will become slave homes, and Texas Oil Tycoons will be driven about the country in sleighs pulled by formerly upper-middle-class soccer children–their study quadriceps are best equipped for this American future.

magic titty September 24, 2008 at 11:25 am

What if some poor whiteys come strolling in looking for some tube-knot money?
Will he be all, “Oh, went meant really REALLY poor people, who can’t even afford to be caucasian. Now here’s a cool grand and some condoms with pinholes in ‘em. Let’s pretend this never even happened…”

ZombieRichardFeynman September 24, 2008 at 11:25 am

My wife and I are elitist, top-of-the-class nerds. When we got married 35 years ago my Mom advised us to get into a breeding war with the idjuts of the world, else they would overwhelm rational people by bunny rabbit tactics. We laughed then. In view of the last couple of elections, I think she had a point. I really don’t think this is such a bad idea. I guess this means I’ll have to turn in my Democratic registration card.

Cogito Ergo Bibo September 24, 2008 at 11:25 am

Wait. I already had my tubes tied. No fair! I’d have waited, if I’d known there was money in it for me!

Serolf Divad September 24, 2008 at 11:26 am

So as I see it, we’ve got two choices:

(1) Castrate all the poor people in Louisiana so they stop having babies.

(2) Improve the Louisiana educational system, invest in the citizenry, produce a more able, better educated workforce, grow the economy, and dig the state out of the enormous cesspool-shitpile-tarpit of illiterate redneck misery it’s stuck in.

Clearly the obvious choice is (1).

Strictly for the Tardcore September 24, 2008 at 11:26 am

[re=105649]Hunter Gathers[/re]: Actually, yes. Instead of “genetic control,” eugenics now means “economic evolution.”

And I’ll guarantee that LaBruzzo can’t spell or define any of those four words.

Hunter Gathers September 24, 2008 at 11:27 am

Fucktard of the day:

“This Administration deserves to be trusted because it has kept us safe from terrorist attack since 9/11, has fought and won two wars, has presided over eight years of economic growth, has appointed two stellar justices to the Supreme Court, and has even learned how to do Louisiana’s job of protecting that state from hurricanes. The day will come, and not before long, when Americans will wish that George Bush was still president,” – Steven Calabresi, professor of law at the Northwestern University Law School.

Bandito September 24, 2008 at 11:27 am

The first line on Wowee Zowee is the best opening lyric ever.

grendel September 24, 2008 at 11:28 am

[re=105652]Voyou Charmant[/re]: How about we just give everyone comprehensive health care instead? How about some job training so the poorz have something to do during the day besides fuck in their trailers. Nah…

springfield_meltdown September 24, 2008 at 11:28 am

So the Republicans are opposed to making condems and plan b available for the under 18 set who if they have children are more likely to end up impoverished. They refuse to make insurance companies pay for hormonal birth control, but sterilization is okay with them and Jesus as long as it happens to poor people. This is horribly bizarre.

Komando September 24, 2008 at 11:28 am

Is it wrong that I also want to sterilize Lousianans? Its always been a pet project.

user-of-owls September 24, 2008 at 11:28 am

[re=105678]hockeymom[/re]: “LaBruzzo said the idea was originally presented to him by his advisors, a group of German scientists with Paraguayan citizenship.”

magic titty September 24, 2008 at 11:29 am

[re=105652]Voyou Charmant[/re]: How is any of this reasonable? Should poor people be having a shitload of kids? No.
And what guarantees generational poverty? Nothing.

Why don’t this fucking shitheads improve health care and education and the ability for all people to go to college affordably. That might work. No one is pre-destined to be on welfare.

This is an thinly veiled effort at killing off certain breeds of human beings.

kudzu September 24, 2008 at 11:29 am

In Louisiana these are code words for preventing more blacks and for encouraging more whites to be born. The South never ceases to amaze me on how little it changes over time. We should definitely kick them all out and, while we’re at it, make them responsible for all that toxic paper littering Wall street these days.

StripesAndPlaids September 24, 2008 at 11:30 am

Just looking at all possible solutions, people. You know, brainstorming. Here are some other ideas:

1. A complete sociological work up at age 6. If you don’t pass muster, we kill you.
2. At 12, a test of basic skills. If you don’t pass, we kill you.
3. At 15, you must take a test of advanced right wing fundamentalist Christian dogma. If you don’t pass, you must go work for a rich person.
4. And any person born before these laws will be grandfathered (so to speak) in, but will have to sprinkle salt peter on their corn flakes.

NoWireHangers September 24, 2008 at 11:30 am

[re=105669]columnv[/re]: Like cheap Chinese-made food products readily available in low-income economic areas that are toxic or bad for your health. Or the simple fact that the leading cause of death for young African American men in America is homicide.

El Topo September 24, 2008 at 11:31 am

I’ll pay LaBruzzo $10,000 to untie the knot in his panties. Or $20,000 to let me whack him in the nuts with a snow shovel.

S.Luggo September 24, 2008 at 11:31 am

“It also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.”
If the kid becomes a communications or marketing major, then you must give the money back with interest (to be equal to the annual inflation rate of Zimbabwe).
If at any time the kid says he wants to be a video game designer or a professional blogger, you forfeit your life.

Hunter Gathers September 24, 2008 at 11:31 am

[re=105684]Strictly for the Tardcore[/re]: I highly doubt that he can spell his own fucking name, let alone 4 whole words. Reason 712 for why I hate white people.

superfecta September 24, 2008 at 11:32 am

[re=105685]Hunter Gathers[/re]: Do you think he meant the war on drugs? I don’t remember winning any others, but I can only assume that that one is going just fine. I’m afraid I can’t find anything to support the economic growth part.

We really are in Swiftian territory here.

Sussemilch September 24, 2008 at 11:33 am

[re=105680]magic titty[/re]: Yeah, you’re not poor, you just blew your savings on white skin.

mookworthjwilson September 24, 2008 at 11:34 am

That guy’s face is just asking for a nice swift shovel swinging…

Voyou Charmant September 24, 2008 at 11:35 am

[re=105669]columnv[/re]: Not black people. I mean, Alan Keys wouldn’t qualify!

My point was that offering a medical procedure to people who do not want kids, for free (plus $1K!) is not an inherently evil idea. After all, it is a voluntary program — not forced.

Anyway, you’re clearly a racist because you think all black people are poor and all poor people are black.

If I introduced a plan to offer free snip and tie to “bad drivers”, you would probably think I meant women or Asians or Asian women!

I also would have accepted old people.

Henry Paulson's Ring Worm September 24, 2008 at 11:35 am

“check the experation date man, it’s time to cut that poor skank’s tubes.”

Hunter Gathers September 24, 2008 at 11:36 am

[re=105700]superfecta[/re]: I think he means the wars on reason and intelligence. We are slipping ever closer to Idiocracy. Brought to you by Carl’s Jr. Carl’s Jr.-Fuck You, I’m Eating!

Voyou Charmant September 24, 2008 at 11:37 am

Sorry, guys.

I mean FUCK THIS RACIST JERK BAG AND HIS HITLER LOVING INDIAN CHRISTIAN FRIEND THAT ISN’T M NIGHT SHAMBLINGINEY (sp?)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111

AngryBlakGuy September 24, 2008 at 11:37 am

Dear Mr. LaBruzzo

You know what is easier and cheaper than paying for an invasive sterilization procedure and thousand dollar hand outs? SEX EDUCATION, YOU FUKK UP!!!

Sincerely
ABG!

P.S.
I hope you also get Gonorrhea and die XoXo

randomsausage September 24, 2008 at 11:39 am

It’s the thin edge of the wedge isn’t it? First it’ll be the poor and then anyone not registered Republican.

It’s the Wannsee Conference, red-neck styleeeeeeee

Outstando September 24, 2008 at 11:39 am

[re=105657]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: Yeah, seriously, if they would just let the Gay Agenda have its way with the American people, there would be far fewer breeding welfare bitters.

obfuscator September 24, 2008 at 11:40 am

[re=105703]mookworthjwilson[/re]: Hey, give the guy a break. He was just ‘studying’ the ‘possibility’ of government sponsored selective population control based on income. He just wanted to run that idea up the flagpole and see if anybody would seig heil, er, salute it.

user-of-owls September 24, 2008 at 11:40 am

“Following Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s recent moves, LaBruzzo arranged meetings with several world leaders this week, including Jean Marie Le Pen, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and China’s Minister of Family Planning, Huan Bei Bei.”

lilblackcorvette September 24, 2008 at 11:40 am

it’s a very modest proposal.

Outstando September 24, 2008 at 11:41 am

[re=105668]WadISay[/re]: I bought the converter and now my Tahoe is powered by pureed poor people. I still only get 8 mpg, but every mile makes America stronger.

magic titty September 24, 2008 at 11:42 am

[re=105691]magic titty[/re]: Apologies on my grammar. I was typing fast, as this was written in anger. Bah. Fuck this country.

MrAgro September 24, 2008 at 11:42 am

Man oh man, where would Wonkette be without state legislators and their batshit, stupid ideas?

JadedDIssonance September 24, 2008 at 11:42 am

Oh happy day. We’re finally taking care of genetic poverty! I knew we’d finally realize that hockey moms are worth much more to our country than former slaves. They tried this before in Georgia right? Aren’t they still paying legal fees?

columnv September 24, 2008 at 11:43 am

[re=105704]Voyou Charmant[/re]: Uz can miz mah snarck?

user-of-owls September 24, 2008 at 11:43 am

[re=105704]Voyou Charmant[/re]: After all, it is a voluntary program — not forced.

Just like Bum Fights.

Voyou Charmant September 24, 2008 at 11:43 am

Let me be clear: I’m all for education.

On the flip side common fucking sense has to be throw into the mix.

I do not ever remember taking a class that said “don’t knock up some girl that you don’t want to get married to and want to spend all of your money on” and yet, I still managed to not knock up some girl.

I dont think that there are very many people out — who are actively sexing other people — that don’t understand where babies come from.

I agree that this is a cynical questionable approach, but seriously, birth control and condoms are available for free if you want them, but clearly some people cant bring themselves to use them.

Is there a need for education? Yes! Are there people who wont listen/care? Absolutely!

evilbilly September 24, 2008 at 11:44 am

But where will the next generation of French Quarter strippers come from?

Gopherit v2.0 September 24, 2008 at 11:44 am

Oooooo. Bernake is paying for all of his malfeasance right now. He’s being lectured by Ron Paul.

Outstando September 24, 2008 at 11:46 am

[re=105722]Voyou Charmant[/re]: There are a lot of heavy drinkers here. If you stop now, they won’t remember any of this happened. You haven’t pierced the hangover fog yet, but you’re close.

obfuscator September 24, 2008 at 11:47 am

[re=105724]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: I fully expect to see Ron Paul on late night teevees in the near future. He’ll be asking me to send him all that gold jewelry I never wear anymore in exchange for hundreds of dollars.

StrangelyBrown September 24, 2008 at 11:47 am

[re=105641]ManchuCandidate[/re]: The Turbos, naturally, you crouton.

BigDupa September 24, 2008 at 11:48 am

Sweet! Now I can finally put my MBA to use– seed spreader! Think maybe I’ll head down to LA and stud myself out as the quality control guy for the tube tying. If my well educated DNA finds purchase, bad doctor but good for society as a whole. Is there enough time to write this guy in for President?

acilius September 24, 2008 at 11:48 am

[re=105665]JohnnyMac[/re]: Yes Metairie did send David Duke to the State Legislature. His main proposal in that election was to have the state pay blacks to have Norplant implants. So this guy is totally different, as you can see.

CivicHoliday September 24, 2008 at 11:48 am

Really? Tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children? Well, my income isn’t so high, but I’ve got a fuckload of education. Maybe I should move down there, get a decent job as a high-priced call girl, and start poppin’ out the kiddos. Those tax incentives should be just about right to pay off my student loans and STD medications.

Guppy06 September 24, 2008 at 11:49 am

Let’s face it: Louisiana had to. Stevens’ and Palin’s Alaska is getting all the attention this cycle, Baton Rouge had to do something to reclaim their title!

Besides, Republicans are only against birth control for humans. Everybody knows that poor people aren’t real people!

Sweetfoot September 24, 2008 at 11:51 am

This kind of thing happened early in the 1900s and even Hitler studied what was happening in the US.

http://www.democratbydesign.typepad.com

user-of-owls September 24, 2008 at 11:52 am

[re=105723]evilbilly[/re]: Mexico, of course.

Strictly for the Tardcore September 24, 2008 at 11:52 am

[re=105685]Hunter Gathers[/re]: Okay, first Cavuto gets on national television and starts talking, that fucking boner, and now some douchebag with the last name Calabresi decides we won the wars we were in, the economy’s doing just hunky-fucking-dory, and that the government handled Katrina with the efficiency and assurance of SHADES! on CSI: Miami.

I don’t know if any of my fellow Wonketteers can fully appreciate this, but it’s a bad time to be an Italian.

V572625694 September 24, 2008 at 11:54 am

[re=105682]Cogito Ergo Bibo[/re]: Hey, sweetie — I’ve had a vasectomy. I think we could make beautiful music together. And for $2K, we could do it in Paris.

Strictly for the Tardcore September 24, 2008 at 11:54 am

[re=105727]obfuscator[/re]: You should change your avatar to a picture of Ron Paul that says “PWNED BY OBFUSCATOR”.

obfuscator September 24, 2008 at 11:56 am

Wouldn’t an insanely devout Catholic like Bobby Hussein Jindal be morally obligated to object to this plan??

V572625694 September 24, 2008 at 11:56 am

[re=105693]kudzu[/re]: The South never ceases to amaze me on how little it changes over time. We should definitely kick them all out and, while we’re at it, make them responsible for all that toxic paper littering Wall street these days.

It’s no accident that Lehman Brothers started in Birmingham — probably selling naked shorts on the slave market.

magic titty September 24, 2008 at 11:57 am

[re=105734]Guppy06[/re]: I know – they wait until you’re actually alive to start destroying your mortal soul.

The slogan should be “Pro-life, but then…”

JadedDIssonance September 24, 2008 at 11:58 am

[re=105722]Voyou Charmant[/re]: There is a need to educate people who think that sterilizing poor people is a solution to ANY problem.

StrangelyBrown September 24, 2008 at 11:58 am

[re=105743]obfuscator[/re]: “Remember, whatever we do to ourselves, we do to God!”

randomsausage September 24, 2008 at 11:59 am

wait a minute. If everyone who didn’t have a college degree was snipped, we’d maybe have a politics that didn’t spit out wackos like Sarah Palin….in about 30 years. We’d have to have an approved list of colleges though. None of that community college shit — and no colleges from red-states, religious colleges, all-white, all-black, all-latino etc.

Also, think of the positive side-effects: I that didn’t make your kid want to do his/her homework, nothing would.

mookworthjwilson September 24, 2008 at 11:59 am

[re=105722]Voyou Charmant[/re]: Things that people without sex ed believe will prevent pregnancy:

Jumping up and down

Pulling out

Pouring soda up there

Taking a shower…

The list goes on and on…so yes…a little well taught, non-abstinence only sex ed would actually dispell some bad information that’s going around…

Lascauxcaveman September 24, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Aw ya bunch of lib whiners, I’ve thought this idea was a good one the first time I heard of it maybe thirty years ago (in a Kurt Vonnegut or Sci-Fi novel, maybe?)

It only smacks of eugenics when you add the $1000 reward and make it only for “poor” people, where poor=black.

Sure the guy proposing it is an idiot racist, but change the offer to a free ligation/vasectomy/BCprescription for anyone, any race, any economic level, no questions asked, then you’ve got a deal that’s a liberal wet dream.

I’m all for it.

btwbfdimho September 24, 2008 at 12:00 pm

It won’t work; remember Oscar Wilde: “Sex is the theatre of the poor”.

madtowngooner September 24, 2008 at 12:01 pm

If only educated people get to have babies, who’s gonna vote republican? We all know that educated people are elitists and they only do what the New York Times tells them to do.

BTW: Batshit insane barely begins to describe this fucktard.

WIDTAP September 24, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Folks, folks! Calm down. LaBruzzo is just acknowledging that now that America will complete the selling of its land, its economy and its soul to China that we need to get with the program and institute a Chinese style birth control policy. LaBruzzo is just trying to be more liberal than the official Chinese line by excluding the financial elites from this policy, much as it is done in in practice mainland China.

Besides, as all good Republicans know, poverty is caused by a personal, physical, spiritual inferiority to the ruling class (Republicans). Of course you want a eugenics program to weed out the inferior.

Besides, the crematoria for fat, poor inferiors can easily be converted into electrical power generation plants, solving the nation’s energy crisis. It’s win-win.

Strictly for the Tardcore September 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm

[re=105750]randomsausage[/re]: Uh… I’m going to have to think about that… that’s really a “do the ends justify the means” kinda question right there…

Miller September 24, 2008 at 12:05 pm

If we don’t have poor babies, what will we eat? I take Swift’s policies seriously. I’m for less poor, but only if we can eat them to reduce their numbers. Perhaps we bake them in a comically large pie, for example.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

mookworthjwilson September 24, 2008 at 12:09 pm

[re=105751]mookworthjwilson[/re]: Here’s a bunch more of these ridiculous beliefs. I guarantee Bristol Palin tried one of these: http://www.coolnurse.com/bcmyths.htm

oy vey September 24, 2008 at 12:10 pm

[re=105755]madtowngooner[/re]: this is the fatal flaw in the Palin plan to force rape victims to bear their rapist’s child…it essentially forces the breeding of Democrats. Republicans whose virgin 15 year olds are assaulted will just fly them out of the country to get the health care they need…unless Palin’s plan also includes inspecting wombs at the border…to make sure that women who leave the country pregnant return pregnant.

Numb in NOLA September 24, 2008 at 12:11 pm

Yeah, Metairie is where the white-flighters roosted, and whenever there’s a crime it’s got to be teh darkies from New Orleans what done it. They’d bomb the whole city if they could, but since that’s frowned on I guess they’ll have to settle for sterilization.

Carrie_Okie September 24, 2008 at 12:13 pm

This is all well and good but goddamn it when is the last time we had a good butsecks scandal in the GOP? Has we reached the end of the endless?

randomsausage September 24, 2008 at 12:13 pm

[re=105758]Strictly for the Tardcore[/re]: I’m also advocating my “Pol Pot Plan” for our banking woes, that my Economics 1 class tells me just might be batty enough to work. Just dismantle the whole financial infrastructure, dollar etc and go back to Year Zero. Fresh start. Everyone owns where they now live, with no mortgages. And we have to start from scratch again, with the New Dollar, new Fed, new banks. People would of course be free to sell their property again etc and the whole system could start up again…..

Tell me it’s not as crazy bat-shit as giving a trillion dollars to the financetards who got us into this mess, Stanley.

JadedDIssonance September 24, 2008 at 12:14 pm

[re=105770]oy vey[/re]: what a visual!

azw88 September 24, 2008 at 12:15 pm

interesting reversal of history… there was a time when the poor of the south were encouraged to breed. Of course, slavery came to an end. But now, with the pending global economic meltdown, they white. elitists will need those manual labor jobs for their college educated kids and they don’t want the poor competing with them for those $5.90 an hour jobs. Next will be a proposal that all fast food workers have a college degree…

Kev-O-Tron September 24, 2008 at 12:15 pm

[re=105711]Outstando[/re]: Fuckin A Right! I’m stoked on that new Gus Van Sant flick about Harvey Milk. In the trailer Sean Penn is talking to some fundie who says “Two men cannot reproduce.” Milk responds with “No, but sure do try!”

llyn September 24, 2008 at 12:17 pm

[re=105685]Hunter Gathers[/re]: “The day will come, and not before long,” Did he really write “and not before long”? Even if he did not write “and not before long,” Mr. Calabresi is a prize idiot. But if he wrote “and not before long,” may I suggest he be deported to Lousiana and reclassified as a likely generational welfare recipient and encouraged to apply for the state-administered payout after his vasectomy.

madtowngooner September 24, 2008 at 12:19 pm

[re=105770]oy vey[/re]: I thought that what happens in Wasilla, stays in Wasilla?

White evangelical mommies and their babies’ babies are blessed events.

sezme September 24, 2008 at 12:23 pm

What’s wrong with just feeding the poor people’s babies to the rich? Then everyone wins. Nothing like a roast suckling baby to enhance summer soirees!

Mumble Softly September 24, 2008 at 12:23 pm

Why do I sense so much anger and hostility in these comments these days? Is it because , as a result of the financial crisis, most of Wonkette’s commentors are in danger of being forcibly castrated for not being rich enough to own 7 homes and 13 cars ?

I say we all get along with our new overlords and do everything that they demand of us. Resistance really is futile and will interfere with our daily watching of the ultimate fighter/dancing with the stars tee-vee shows.

magic titty September 24, 2008 at 12:24 pm

[re=105752]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Except it’s not. And the guy proposing it is an idiot racist, as you say. AND, what happened to personal responsibility?

sezme September 24, 2008 at 12:24 pm

[re=105792]sezme[/re]: In other words, John LaBruzzo’s proposal is altogether too modest.

pattycake September 24, 2008 at 12:25 pm

I’d actually go for this. I don’t ever want to get pregnant, and I could use $1000.

mookworthjwilson September 24, 2008 at 12:25 pm

Next he’s going to suggest a program of providing free Chinese milk to the poor.

Baseproduct September 24, 2008 at 12:26 pm

[re=105684]Strictly for the Tardcore[/re]: Wrong. If nothing else, he’d know evolution as the religion of atheists and liberals.

Gopherit v2.0 September 24, 2008 at 12:27 pm

[re=105788]madtowngooner[/re]: I thought that what happens in Wasilla‘s uteri, stays in Wasilla‘s uteri?

/Fixed.

NotthatLC September 24, 2008 at 12:29 pm

[re=105646]mattbolt[/re]: It’s not just self-castration for a month’s rent. It’s for a month’s rent and groceries!

JadedDIssonance September 24, 2008 at 12:37 pm

I think putting those ovaries to good use (ie: donation) would be a better solution than simply cutting the cords. However, you have to pass a drug test first. uhoh.

Borat September 24, 2008 at 12:38 pm

[re=105713]obfuscator[/re]: “He was just ’studying’ the ‘possibility’ of…”

Hmm, reminds me of the Snowbilly approach to governing, e.g., banning books. I think we’ll be seeing more of this fine young man.

TeddyS September 24, 2008 at 12:38 pm

Dr. Mengele (R-LA), I presume?

llyn September 24, 2008 at 12:38 pm

[re=105729]StrangelyBrown[/re]: Bravo, the best laugh I’ve had for days and days. “Crouton” as a term of abuse! Much better than “moran,” but same comic mechanism. You are a genius, sir.

Cogito Ergo Bibo September 24, 2008 at 12:38 pm

[re=105744]V572625694[/re]: Meet you in Spain in Nov. 5, if this whole thing goes badly.

[re=105724]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: You’re listening too? I figured I was the only one! ‘Course it’s all over now but the crying…

Strictly for the Tardcore September 24, 2008 at 12:41 pm

[re=105799]Baseproduct[/re]: “That thing that lib’ruls and heathuns buhlee… belee… bilee… think is true,” as a definition would get you failed out of any school not, appropriately enough, in Louisiana.

lalala September 24, 2008 at 12:41 pm

LaBruzzo’s wife is an attorney. Her name is Brandi. http://www.bluewilliams.com/attorneys/att_a_brandi_Labruzzo.html

LaBruzzo himself can be found here: http://house.louisiana.gov/h_reps/members.asp?ID=81

Keep in mind that LaBruzzo represents one of the first white-flight suburbs of New Orleans. A large contingent of Italians who used to live in the city now live in his district.

Undeterredbyreality September 24, 2008 at 12:42 pm

It’s a great idea! Just substitute “Republicans” for “people that are going from generational welfare to generational welfare” and “Democrats” for “college-educated, higher-income people” and we have a deal!

Deepthroat September 24, 2008 at 12:43 pm

I fully support this plan, but it should be based on intelligence not race or income. Think of Idiocracy people! Of course, I think we need to wait a bit until we have enough robots capable of taking over all the blue-collar menial jobs that nobody really wants anyway.

lalala September 24, 2008 at 12:46 pm

By the way, the Exorcist himself, LA Governor Bobby Jindal, used to represent this district. Oh, and by the way, again, the whore-fancier himself, LA Senator David Vitter, used to represent this district too.

This district has been gerrymandered to allow creeps to be represented in the legislature. Everyone needs a voice, I suppose.

Way to go, Louisiana!!!

Baseproduct September 24, 2008 at 12:48 pm

Doesn’t this guy realize that tubal ligations lead to MORE UNDERAGE SEX? This is going to backfire on him.

lalala September 24, 2008 at 12:49 pm

Deepthroat,

Are we supposed to lift our hands in agreement with your insane ideas? You get your ideas about the future from Mike Judge? And, Futurama, it seems?

madtowngooner September 24, 2008 at 12:53 pm

[re=105824]lalala[/re]: We all know that God messed up with Katrina; he was aiming for this sad sack of shit of a place and hit NOLA instead.

irisheyes September 24, 2008 at 12:59 pm

Holy fuck, this isn’t serious?! I mean, I get the whole “fix the poor so they can get off the dole” but encourage the college educated to have more?!!! Shit, i’m hoping many, many of the people I went to college with never had kids. Shit.

S.Luggo September 24, 2008 at 1:03 pm

[re=105824]lalala[/re]: David Vitter also represented LeBozo’s district snd single-handedly brought the diaper industry there back to life.

lalala September 24, 2008 at 1:04 pm

That guy was (still is?) a medical equipment salesman. I bet he is one of those wannabe doctors who demonstrates and performs medical procedures in the offices of GPs to show them how the latest technology works. A dime-store Mengele.

lalala September 24, 2008 at 1:06 pm

S.Luggo,

I said that already. But thanks for sharing!

WIDTAP September 24, 2008 at 1:06 pm

[re=105798]mookworthjwilson[/re]: WIN!
So much more subtle than poor as:
– Energy fuel
– Food for the rich
– Salve labor

Well done.

Deepthroat September 24, 2008 at 1:09 pm

lalala: hmmm, Futurama you say? Why didn’t I think of that! Note to self: watch entire Futurama series with special emphasis on robots and brain slugs.

who are you?

nuckingfutz September 24, 2008 at 1:22 pm

[re=105660]sanantonerose[/re]: word

lalala September 24, 2008 at 1:26 pm

Come to think of it, Deepthroat, Futurama is an excellent blueprint. I look forward to the return of Nixon as President –especially the one with the body of that evil robot from Robocop!

shortsshortsshorts September 24, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Are there no prisons? No orphanages?

SisterTruth September 24, 2008 at 1:39 pm

Wow. Hitler is clapping in his grave. (Unfortunately this isn’t new. As many said, it’s just old-fashioned eugenics. We have a history of giving black women hysterectomies without telling them and sterilizing Puerto Rican women. Pretty soon he’ll just want ALL non-whites to be sterilized.)

tiger September 24, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Wait. Wait. Wait.
Somebody ELECTED this bog-drinking douchebag?

thursdaynext27 September 24, 2008 at 2:44 pm

What is it with Louisiana politicians? Remember this oldie but goodie?

Last week, the Louisiana Legislature approved a measure that would allow an abortion only to save the mother’s life, but not for victims of rape or incest. (“Inbreeding is how we get championship horses,” said state Rep. Carl Gunter, who opposed an incest exception.)

Newsweek, July 9, 1990
http://www.newsweek.com/id/127739

bridgecross September 24, 2008 at 2:59 pm

columnv; the State will succeed with a eugenics program that is broken into smaller, distinct parts?

Dailyfare September 24, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Yes, encourage higher income people to have more babies, so that when those babies grow up to ruin Bear-Lehman-Frannie Bros., poorer people can use their $1000 sterility payment to bail them out.

capt. tim September 24, 2008 at 3:07 pm

the moral outrage here is completely overlooking the fact that encouraging any sector of the population to stop making people is. a. good. thing.

stop making people. poor? dumb? stop making people. Smart? Rich? We have enough people. Stop making people.

anabellum September 24, 2008 at 4:08 pm

i spend my time going back and forth between Louisiana and Texas……

the Texas political scene is full of laughable, puffed-up, ignorant clowns…consider the recent ruling by a Texas court that Tom DeLay didnt actually break campaign laws…because the money was transfered by check, rather than being handed over in cash…

the same clownish behavior is true of Louisiana…..the only difference is that i know better than to laugh too hard…

windupbird September 24, 2008 at 6:56 pm

Stalin said “Take away the people, take away the problems.”

schvitzatura September 24, 2008 at 8:51 pm

[re=105722]Voyou Charmant[/re]: More like Voyou Tête de Merde?

Laissez les bon temps roulez!

tocute2btrue September 24, 2008 at 9:37 pm

They better leave my Louseyanna votes alone!

ihatepolls September 26, 2008 at 11:29 am

Would it be possible to sterilize certain Wall Street execs?

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