Colson called abortion "the root of the" illegal immigration "problem"
On his daily BreakPoint radio commentary, convicted Watergate felon and Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Charles W. Colson claimed that legalized abortion created a labor shortage, forcing the United States to solicit undocumented workers from other countries to fill jobs that might have otherwise been occupied by the "40 million sacrificed since 1973" to abortion.
During the April 11 broadcast of his daily BreakPoint radio commentary, convicted Watergate felon and Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Charles W. Colson claimed that legalized abortion created a labor shortage, forcing the United States to solicit undocumented workers from other countries to fill jobs that might have otherwise been occupied by the "40 million sacrificed since 1973," when the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion.
Colson asked: "But what's the root of the [illegal immigration] problem? Why do we have a shortage of workers? Aha, that's the unspeakable 'A' word that the elite dread the most: abortion." According to Colson, "The reason we must allow millions of illegal aliens in to fill these jobs is because we have murdered a generation that would otherwise be filling them: 40 million sacrificed since 1973 to the god of self-fulfillment. And Americans are barely maintaining a replacement-level birthrate of 2.1 children per woman."
BreakPoint is a syndicated daily commentary that Colson's ministry claims "airs each weekday on over one thousand outlets with an estimated listening audience of one million people."
From Colson's April 11 BreakPoint commentary:
But what's the root of the problem? Why do we have a shortage of workers? Aha, that's the unspeakable "A" word that the elite dread the most: abortion. The reason we must allow millions of illegal aliens in to fill these jobs is because we have murdered a generation that would otherwise be filling them: 40 million sacrificed since 1973 to the god of self-fulfillment. And Americans are barely maintaining a replacement-level birthrate of 2.1 children per woman.
Remember the compassionate stuff that the abortionists used to tell us: "We are just preventing these poor kids from growing up in deprived, impoverished circumstances"? Hah! False. What happens is that others come in from abroad to live in those deprived, difficult, and impoverished circumstances and at great public cost.
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Watergate Felon: "Why do we have a shortage of workers?"
If that's the case, why don't we have ZERO UNEMPLOYMENT????
Watergate Felon: "The reason we must allow millions of illegal aliens in to fill these jobs is because we have murdered a generation that would otherwise be filling them"
All the aborted twenty and thirty-somethings that he's talking about would have no more desire to do these jobs than those who were not aborted.
Watergate Felon: "Remember the compassionate stuff that the abortionists used to tell us: 'We are just preventing these poor kids from growing up in deprived, impoverished circumstances'? Hah! False. What happens is that others come in from abroad to live in those deprived, difficult, and impoverished circumstances and at great public cost."
This is the most brutal and blatant admission of the conservative grand vision of a two-class society I've ever seen.
Why doesn't he just come out say, "Don't abort the babies of the rape and incest victims or women who are assured death in childbirth, we need them to serve as our elitist, conservative society's servant class of deprived, impoverished farm workers, janitors and dish washers."?
That some conservatives really do envision our society similar to what Margaret Atwood portrays in her book, "The Handmaid's Tale".
I always said that if I felt like committing suicide I couldn't because Margaret Atwood is writing another book right now. Thanks for the reminder of that one blessing in this evil world.
...let's just combine issues now. We must form a unified, airtight seal around the criminal morass that is the Bush admin...
Right wingers should really be stand up comedians. They say the funniest things.
...where or when I heard it (I think it was on a Cheech and Chong record), but the line went something like:
"I used to all messed up on drugs but now I'm all messed up on the lord."
For Chuck, we can change "drugs" to "power and corruption"
Playing devil's advocate, let's say, instead of abortion, there was a virus that reduced our population by 20 million.
According to Colson, this would cause a labor shortage.
Jobs needing to be done, but no workers to do them.
First, our Corporations would have to "outsource" as much labor as they could, seeking cheap labor markets overseas, which provides our consumers with cheaper products, and improves the lifestyle of the workers in their "devoloping" home country (albeit, on a much more modest scale than that seen in America).
Second, we'd have to open our borders to workers willing to do jobs that can't be exported, such as picking produce or tending our lawns.
If we had that need, wouldn't it be GOOD that there were people willing to do that work we needed done?
Colson says this is a bad outcome, but I don't understand WHY. We get our work done, and foreigners get jobs and improved quality of life.
So, WHY is this an argument against abortion? We want all this back-breaking cheap labor done ONLY by NATURAL BORN Americans? And this is something to be ASPIRED to? WHY?
"The reason we must allow millions of illegal aliens in to fill these jobs is because we have murdered a generation that would otherwise be filling them: 40 million sacrificed since 1973 to the god of self-fulfillment."
Because, I am to gather from this statement, every parent wants their children to be a day laborer or a migrant farm worker. Before it starts, I am not saying these are not necessary jobs filled by decent people, but that the jobs are not decent and therefore they are filled by people out of their necessity. Sweat shops, crushing poverty, and by extension our border problems would not be an issue, if we as a people worldwide and not just the USA -- but we should be leading the charge -- would demand human rights, workers rights, and stand by those convictions. However, thugs, warlords, petty dictators, and corporists will make sure this never happens as their world would come to a screaming halt. The one thing Colson got right was naming the beast "the god of self-fulfillment" this is who we are sacrificing people worldwide to -- Mammon.
Yeah, I can sound like a revivalist tent preacher too.
There was abortion before Roe V. Wade.
his mother had access to legalized abortion.
That was harsh of me. It just makes me mad that folks like this spin everything to make their "pro-life" points.
You know that bumper sticker that goes like: "Choose Life. Your Mother did."
Well, I keep thinking I'd like one: "Choose Death. I wish your Mother did."
[duck]
But your point is a relevant one, that some people make these absolutely abhorrent statements, based on sheer speculation brought to the outer most galaxy of hypothetical absurdity.
And what is even worse, is that the people who constantly talk of "millions of murdered babies" do not ever hesitate to support the War in Iraq, the Death Penalty, the diminishment of Foreign Humanitarian Aid ("You can't give away mosquito nets to Africans! Make them pay for them!"), the cutting of Education, and support a myriad of Zero Tolerance laws, while resisting all forms of of Sex Education, Condom Availability and Drug Rehabilitation.
These people like Colson -- and Falwell and Robertson and Bennett-- are despicable.
Some nutball TN state congresscritter said basically the same thing a few weeks ago.
Not only is this whole thing hilarious. But a republican assemblyman from right here in NY told me word for word the very same "thought" during a round of golf up at Woodstock Golf Club. I have never forgotten it,we were waitng to tee off and he looked me right in my face and told me "abortion and it's availabilty has turned the american workforce into a polluted pool and it is impoosible for me to find qualified people"! I kept quiet however I think there might be a different reason nobody wants to work for him or anywhere near him. Besides his UFO takes up too many parking spots out in the lot.
Buchanan wrote a book about what he calls the "Death of the West". His arguments are as absurd.
What the Right fears is that their White Supremacy is waning. And they are scared. That drives them, I think, more than anything.
They live in a 1950, "Leave it to Beaver," dream world, or, rather, they want to hold on to a 1950, "Leave it to Beaver," dream world.
And people of color -- or of other nations/cultures -- threaten, in their minds, their notions of nation and "self." They look at an "increase of them" as "less of us".
Because abortion is available, the low wage labor pool has been drained. We also have fewer people available to fight our upcoming wars.
Charles Colson is like Oliver North and some of the other convicted criminals the right has been sending out to spread the good word. They are both thugs, and were both willing to subvert our constitution to protect other felons.
Who is this guy? I have never heard of him before. He looks like a senile old man. How can he say something so stupid without any facts to back it up with?
If Bill Bennet disagreed with the Freakonomics abortion/reduced crime connection, wonder how he feels about a fellow conservative's application of that same approach to explaining the illegal immigrant demand...?
Colson is one of Nixon's henchmen convicted in the Watergate scandal. Like many convicts he found religion while incarcerated. He found Jesus and has been spreading his interpretation of what he thinks are Jesus' top priorities - capitalism, protecting rich people's money, and war, .
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check out his smiling mug shot, these huys must be happy to go to jail.
There you have folks, The righties hate abortion because it deprives them of cheap labor. And as far as chastising women for not maintaining the 2.1 children per woman is a joke. Does he know how much it costs to a raise a kid these days. I had 1.0 children and let me tell you it's real expensive.
their Moms would have realized how much work and money it takes to raise children. They would have been more cautious about having more babies later on. So a lot of Americans alive today would have never been born.
Which leads me to a question: Why do Republicans hate all us Americans who are alive now?
Ya know, if we had aborted Republican babies earlier in the twentieth century, Watergate, like, never woulda happened.
Whitey better be scared, cause by 2030-+,the brown man will outnumber whitey! Then All you White Honkies will be in the fields,picking beans,scrubbing "OUR" toilets,wiping "OUR kids butts,hanging out on street corners, begging for a piece of the American Dream! The dream destroyed by the presidency of Bush,cause there isn't enough time to repair the damage done by your Faux, Born-Again Christian , President Bush!Whitey,we here to stay and the doors wide open,Thank-you
When he was a prison guard. He thought Colson was a rank hypocrite and opportunist cloaking himself in the mantle of Christ and my brother-in-law has a doctorate in divinity an with the unemployment rates among young Black males at nearly a quarter of their population I cannot believe we truly have a shortage of workers. Salon magazine recently ran an aricle about how my hometown, Owensboro, Kentucky, had become the "Arizona of the South" due to the number of immigrant workers for the tobacco fields in the summer. This is work that when I was in high school was mainly done by high school boys to earn money for college, a car, the prom, things like that. I wonder what the high school boys are doing for money now? Meth labs, probably.