Lousiana Lawmaker Faults Media For Focusing Attention On His Eugenics Proposal
Lousiana Lawmaker Faults Media For Focusing Attention On His Eugenics Proposal
Louisiana State Rep. John LaBruzzo (R) recently stirred controversy by advocating a form of eugenics to decrease the number of poor. “I realized that all these people were in Louisiana’s care and what a massive financial responsibility that is to the state,” he said. “I said, ‘I wonder if it might be a good idea to pay some of these people to get sterilized.’” His plan would also give tax incentives to the rich to encourage procreation.
Appearing on CNN today, LaBruzzo defended his proposal by arguing that “the taxpayers of America are kind of getting fed up” with supporting welfare programs. He cited the “totally reliant” residents who relied on government evacuations during Hurricane Katrina. When CNN’s Kyra Phillips asked why he couldn’t invest in education and poverty-reduction programs, LaBruzzo faulted the media for focusing too much attention on his eugenics program:
Every one of the ideas you brought up were talked about in the brainstorming session. Obviously the media thought this was the one they could get some ratings out of. We talked about getting involved in the community. … We talked about a lot of those issues. This is one that the media grabbed hold of because it gets ratings.
He also blamed the “tremendous influx of illegal aliens” for “bringing down the economy even more.” Watch it:
But this week, LaBruzzo explicitly ruled out more common sense solutions. “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,” the Times-Picayune reported.
LaBruzzo seems to be dead serious about implementing the plan. He “gathering statistics” now and is planning to introduce legislation “if he finds that the number of people on welfare has increased” over the past decades.
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September 25th, 2008 at 5:43 pmSure its the MEDIA’s fault he said something stupid, depraved and soulless. Right. What a maroon.
September 25th, 2008 at 5:43 pmYeah, because rich people don’t have enough incentive to get laid these days.
September 25th, 2008 at 5:44 pmAnybody know where this kook is on abortion and stem cells?
September 25th, 2008 at 5:45 pmralph, aren’ the rich usually f ucking the poor?
September 25th, 2008 at 5:45 pmWe talked about a lot of those issues. This is one that the media grabbed hold of because it gets ratings.
And it gets ratings because it is so stupid and offensive that normal people wouldn’t even think it, let alone present it as a policy proposal.
See how that works?
September 25th, 2008 at 5:46 pmwas this guy on the
mcsame short list
for vice-president?
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thank you.
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September 25th, 2008 at 5:49 pmMemo to Rep. LaBozo: Train wrecks, three headed dogs and stupid human tricks get big ratings. Look in a mirror. Decide which one you are.
September 25th, 2008 at 5:51 pmI just hope bitblt waits till I get home from work to tell us how it is Darwin’s fault…
September 25th, 2008 at 5:53 pmIf Mista Labruzzo only wanted to offer money to “poor” women to become sterilized, it would be an ugly but not wholly unreasonable suggestion toward reducing the costs of maintaining a part of the population. But when he combines this with the proposal to reward upper class folks who have more children, he has changed his ground totally. Given the racial composition of social classes in this country, Mista Labruzzo is simply and undeniably proposing reducing the lower class and largely black population while trying to increase the upper class and largely white population. This is indeed eugenics. In any of these schemes he is also insulting the hell out of women and treating them as nothing more than breeding cattle. Then again, he is a Republican.
September 25th, 2008 at 5:53 pmThe brutal stupidity of the Reichwhiners defies logic and becomes more surreal with each day. Sometimes each hour.
September 25th, 2008 at 5:53 pmThis man is radical…but having been a Child Advocate and watching a woman on drugs telling a Judge it was her right to have as many children as she wanted to have, while four already having been taken from her….perhaps a child’s right supercedes giving birth irresponsibly.
September 25th, 2008 at 5:55 pmBreed the red bloods to pass on greedy genes? Sounds way too God-Head Evolutionary for an R to grasp. O.K., selective Natural Selection could describe his idea. Dr. Mengele would agree. This is why the Republican Party is disintegrating.
http://www.light-to-dark.com/darwins_twofer.html
September 25th, 2008 at 6:00 pmWho would Jebus sterilize?
September 25th, 2008 at 6:02 pmA monetary incentive for the rich or anyone to procreate is a bad idea.
Offering a significant monetary incentive for voluntary sterilization is a good idea.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:02 pmtexaslady, I tend to agree with you.
The key difference is the situation you describe is based on actual parenting performance.
Rep. LaBruzzo is basing his proposal simply on economic class.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:02 pmWhen we get done paying 1 trillion PLUS to bail out the crooks that have run the criminal cabal that is currently in the White House, they will have to find some way to address poverty that will cost less.
You have not heard the last of this.
And obama is selling us out again – looks like he will support this sham just like he sold us out with retro immunity for the telecoms.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:02 pmAnd don’t forget this AssKlown is sitting in the KKK poster boy, David Duke’s old seat.
Need we know any more?????
September 25th, 2008 at 6:04 pmAnother Joe Says:
So, Another Joe, who are you voting for in November?
September 25th, 2008 at 6:05 pm“Rep. LaBruzzo is basing his proposal simply on economic class.”
What happened to that quaint little story we insist on cramming down our childrens throught about that whole Horatio Alger American rags to riches dream. Damn we have some stupid assed fairy tale ideas about what we envision the nation to be… Little struggling House on the frickin Priarie ala Walton’s bullshit…
September 25th, 2008 at 6:07 pmwhat the hell is a throught?
September 25th, 2008 at 6:08 pmLet him be the first one in line! Problem solved!
September 25th, 2008 at 6:09 pmAh, yes. This is nothing more than plain old ugly bigotry pig dressed up in party dress and smeared with lipstick.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:13 pmdbadass Says:
Anybody know where this kook is on abortion and stem cells?
He is rabidly anti-abortion/anti-choice.
And as for those “illegal immigrants”, does he mean all the folks that have been helping rebuild the Gulf Coast for the last 3 years? I’d like to know how many he “illegal immigrants” he employed to do any repairs on his home post-Katrina.
Oh, but that different, right? IOKIYARscumbucket.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:17 pm“This is one that the media grabbed hold of because it gets ratings.”
I’ve got 20 kids in my neighborhood, but I only hit one of them with my car… guess which one’s parent’s got pissed? …and do I get $1000?
September 25th, 2008 at 6:19 pmPrescott Bush, Bush’s grandfather, was also an advocate for eugenics. He was defeated after this fascist notion of his became widely known.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:20 pmLaBruzzo 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.
If only those poor folks would just die and decrease the surplus population, maybe that would solve the problem?
September 25th, 2008 at 6:21 pmThe problem I see is that if you breed out the poor, the least rich of the rich become the poor which then need to be bred out…
September 25th, 2008 at 6:22 pmhe wants the rich to reproduce. hhmmm.
but didn’t the rich just screw the country?
Iraq?
Katrina?
Wall Street problems?
we should have THESE people reproduce?
September 25th, 2008 at 6:22 pmI see Doctor Mengele’s progeny alive and spewing the shit the Nazi’s did in the 30s and 40s.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:24 pmThat was totally made up, btw… I only shoot kids from my helicopter like the wolves that they are. $1000 a piece.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:30 pmWhat LaBruzzo fails to understand is that there will always be poor people as long as there are rich people. Rich people get rich by making other people poor.
If he honestly believes he will solve the welfare problem by eliminating people who are genetically predisposed to be poor (a concept which is a laugh in itself), all he’s going to do is make the rich people get their money off the backs of somebody else. Creating new poor people.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:31 pmLike we’ve ever given any of those options a real chance to work. Even germany, your old home town does better than we do and they don’t any longer feel the need to build ovens for the bodies.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:31 pmLaBruzzo is a prime example of what too much Southern inbreeding can do to the gene pool. It seems he and many other members of his family shrub have married first cousins.
I bet he has 6 toes on at least one foot.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:37 pmMiles Tougeaux Says:
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A monetary incentive for the rich or anyone to procreate is a bad idea.
Offering a significant monetary incentive for voluntary sterilization is a good idea.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
How , exactly ?
Money makes people do rash , impetuous and unthinking things …..
September 25th, 2008 at 6:40 pmWait a minute. His idea may have merit.
If the criteria he cites is based on hurting the taxpayer then we might want to extend his program to various folks on Wall Street and in the White House.
I can think of no program more likely to help the taxpayer than the forced sterilization of Wall Street CEOs and current members of the Administration (do we really want Karl Rove to breed?).
:)
September 25th, 2008 at 6:49 pmYou could have an economy that creates jobs instead of an economy that eliminates all but low-paying service jobs. That would decrease the number of poor people and increase the number of people with money. No, that’s too crazy, forget it.
September 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pmThe devil (media) made him do it! He should go to Palin’s pastor for anti-witch praying!
September 25th, 2008 at 9:25 pmJesus Christ said something about the poor being with us always.
He also said something about clothing them, feeding them, being a Good Samaritan toward them, “loving thy neighbor as thyself” even when that neighbor is poor.
LaBruzzo sounds about as far as one can get from being a follower of Jesus Christ, because I don’t see anything in the Four Gospels in which Jesus Christ advocates doing to the poor what LaBruzzo wants to do to the poor…eradicate them…by sterilizing them.
September 25th, 2008 at 9:35 pm.
What John LaBruzzo (R) means is that he doesn’t mean what he says…
… That’s all.
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September 25th, 2008 at 10:49 pmLouisiana State Rep. John LaBruzzo is the sort of Gomer that normally becomes a pastor. Profilers and psych love LaBruzzo and his personality. Out.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:48 amHere’s a thousand bucks LaBruzzo. You first. I won’t even charge you for the vastectomy. A local anesthesia of course will be $1,000.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:18 am“form of eugenics to decrease the number of poor”
Because rich people never become poor… except for investment bankers last week, house flippers 2 years ago, dot-commers in 2001, gold miners in the 1890’s…
And in case there is any question, eugenics is not related in any way to how biology actually works, even for selecting for actual physical traits. Rich and poor are social constructs that are even further from being related to the contents of our DNA. Eugenics is a political idea that resonates with people who have never taken a high school biology class.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:23 pmJust like the cold war when everyone who didn’t agree with the U.S. was either a communist or a communist sympathizer. toki This poor crazy guy spent half a decade being tortured because a bunch
of stupid politicians araç sorgulama were sure the NVA
was in bed with the Russians (minimal help) and/or the Chinese (ancient enemy of the vietnamese). ssk sorgulama You would think he would have learned from others’
mistakes. Guess not. Republicans need an enemy. key ödemeleri This
century it apparently will be all Muslims, kredi all of whom must
be alQaeda operatives.
February 28th, 2009 at 7:49 pm