Actually... this will be a defense of the Susan G. Komen Foundation and its supporters. Instead of rehashing the events, I decided I would go over a couple of points that we have all learned from this situation.
1. Once an organization donates money to Planned Parenthood, they will have to continue to donate money to Planned Parenthood every year forever and ever. If they do not, liberals will vilify them as promoting a war against women. Because Planned Parenthood is the darling of the left, they do not want to see any funding cut from it. Susan G. Komen, as a private charity, has the right to donate their money to whoever they want. The Komen Foundation exists to eradicate breast cancer and to support those who have it. They give to other organizations that support this mission. However, Planned Parenthood provides so little breast cancer services that it doesn't even do mammograms. They do little more than just referring patients to doctors. Why Susan G. Komen ever gave Planned Parenthood money is beyond me as the two organizations' goals are so different.
2. When it comes down to it, we should expect liberals to take the side of an organization that supports the destruction of life over an organization whose main mission is to save lives. It is not enough for liberals that the Komen Foundation has invested billions of dollars in breast cancer research over the past three decades, but they must now also use their own donations to help fund an organization that does pretty much nothing in the form of breast cancer services. Because of what Planned Parenthood provides, liberals will do just about anything to ensure their future success even if it means demonizing an organization like the Komen Foundation which has done so much good work for women in the past. Somehow, the Susan G. Komen Foundation whose main goal it to stop breast cancer is the villain while the organization that destroys life every day of the week by providing abortions is the innocent victim.
With that being said, abortion is a perfectly legal operation and the likelihood of Roe v Wade being overturned is slim. This does not mean, however, that we should be required to support organizations that provide these services and that if one doesn't support places like Planned Parenthood, it makes us anti-women. Although it is much easier to resort to name-calling when discussing politics, it usually just means that a specific side cannot argue on the merits of their side and must use it as a last resort as liberals did in this situation.
-Jeremy
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
The NFL's Fair Share
In honor of the Super Bowl, I thought I would share some of my thoughts on the NFL.
Nobody will debate whether or not the NFL is successful financially, but is it too successful? The NFL makes billions of dollars a year in ticket sales, TV licensing, memorabilia, etc. However, the other professional sports leagues like the MLB and the NBA can't come anywhere close to that type of revenue. Because of this, I think it is time for the NFL to start paying their fair share. Because everyone knows that people who become successful do it at the expense of the less fortunate, the NFL clearly has gained success unfairly. The average NFL team is worth close to $1 billion dollars while the average MLB team is worth $475 million and the average NBA team is worth $375 million. This means that the average football team is worth more than a baseball team and a basketball team combined. The inequality is stunning.
So what to do to fix this terrible injustice? First, we should add a tax on all of NFL's earning that will be redistributed to the less successful professional sport leagues to ensure a more equal playing field (no pun intended) between the different leagues. Second, we should make sure to vilify the NFL for their success because I'm sure they gained such financial strength at the expense of the poorer leagues, and of course the other leagues should not be blamed for their lack of success. They're just doing the best with what they were given. Finally, we should organize a large movement attacking the NFL for their success. We could stage protests around the country at different NFL stadiums and call it something like Occupy NFL. During these protests, we could create riots, break laws, attack police officers, etc. Although our message wouldn't be entirely clear, we could get a lot of attention because that's all that really matters.
Does this sound stupid? Good, it should. Vilifying the people who have become successful and forcing them to bare the brunt of massive entitlement programs for the unsuccessful is ridiculous. We should applaud people and groups like the NFL who live out the American Dream by creating wealth not just for themselves but for the thousands of people that they or their company employs. Class warfare will not solve America's deficit or debt problems, it will only tear apart the nation.
-Jeremy
Nobody will debate whether or not the NFL is successful financially, but is it too successful? The NFL makes billions of dollars a year in ticket sales, TV licensing, memorabilia, etc. However, the other professional sports leagues like the MLB and the NBA can't come anywhere close to that type of revenue. Because of this, I think it is time for the NFL to start paying their fair share. Because everyone knows that people who become successful do it at the expense of the less fortunate, the NFL clearly has gained success unfairly. The average NFL team is worth close to $1 billion dollars while the average MLB team is worth $475 million and the average NBA team is worth $375 million. This means that the average football team is worth more than a baseball team and a basketball team combined. The inequality is stunning.
So what to do to fix this terrible injustice? First, we should add a tax on all of NFL's earning that will be redistributed to the less successful professional sport leagues to ensure a more equal playing field (no pun intended) between the different leagues. Second, we should make sure to vilify the NFL for their success because I'm sure they gained such financial strength at the expense of the poorer leagues, and of course the other leagues should not be blamed for their lack of success. They're just doing the best with what they were given. Finally, we should organize a large movement attacking the NFL for their success. We could stage protests around the country at different NFL stadiums and call it something like Occupy NFL. During these protests, we could create riots, break laws, attack police officers, etc. Although our message wouldn't be entirely clear, we could get a lot of attention because that's all that really matters.
Does this sound stupid? Good, it should. Vilifying the people who have become successful and forcing them to bare the brunt of massive entitlement programs for the unsuccessful is ridiculous. We should applaud people and groups like the NFL who live out the American Dream by creating wealth not just for themselves but for the thousands of people that they or their company employs. Class warfare will not solve America's deficit or debt problems, it will only tear apart the nation.
-Jeremy
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