Comments on: It’s called the “Silly Season”, except it’s not funny.. http://www.the-morrison-family.org/blog/2008/09/16/its-called-the-silly-season-except-its-not-funny A page in the life of John and Jeanette Morrison.. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:16:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Robyn http://www.the-morrison-family.org/blog/2008/09/16/its-called-the-silly-season-except-its-not-funny/comment-page-1#comment-226 Robyn Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:13:29 +0000 http://www.the-morrison-family.org/blog/?p=104#comment-226 I had a poll like that. My phone rang and as the caller ID announced that we were recieving a personal phone call from the republican party itself, I gleefully answered. I think I heard Kris groan but I was busy. She asked me pretty much the same questions - raise taxes or cut spending... Really? Are you serious? Does anyone think it is that black and white? WHO would you raise taxes on and how and by how much and what about other segments of the population that they could actually LOWER taxes for? Cut spending on what? Raise it on what? A balanced budget doesn't mean cutting only or raising only, it means balancing. I have no idea what she marked down for my answer. then she asked about pro choice or pro life. See, I have an issue with that too. I think in general, the government should decide if it is going to make laws with the general concept that the fetus is a person with inalienable rights... or not. And stick with it. If they say it is - murder X 2 for killing a pregnant woman. No abortions. Birth certificates for babies that died before actually being born. (Not to mention having the military insurrance cover the funeral costs for a stillborn 39 week baby just as it would for a born and then died premature 21 week baby.) If they say that it is NOT a person with inalienable rights - you cannot charge murder X 2 on someone killing a pregnant woman. You cannot set OTHER laws AS IF that were a baby, a person. That's what I say. It isn't about abortions at all, it is about if the developing fetus is legally a person or not. (And for the record, dispite my life insurance rant which I am a bit sensitive to, I do not believe it is my nor government's place to tell anyone else when sentient life begins... unless somehow science is able to prove it... which I doubt.) Again, I have no idea what she put my answer down as. She did end it by asking if the republican party could count on my vote and I laughed so hard I choked and had to apologise for not being able to talk. I had a poll like that. My phone rang and as the caller ID announced that we were recieving a personal phone call from the republican party itself, I gleefully answered. I think I heard Kris groan but I was busy. She asked me pretty much the same questions – raise taxes or cut spending… Really? Are you serious? Does anyone think it is that black and white? WHO would you raise taxes on and how and by how much and what about other segments of the population that they could actually LOWER taxes for? Cut spending on what? Raise it on what? A balanced budget doesn’t mean cutting only or raising only, it means balancing. I have no idea what she marked down for my answer. then she asked about pro choice or pro life. See, I have an issue with that too. I think in general, the government should decide if it is going to make laws with the general concept that the fetus is a person with inalienable rights… or not. And stick with it. If they say it is – murder X 2 for killing a pregnant woman. No abortions. Birth certificates for babies that died before actually being born. (Not to mention having the military insurrance cover the funeral costs for a stillborn 39 week baby just as it would for a born and then died premature 21 week baby.) If they say that it is NOT a person with inalienable rights – you cannot charge murder X 2 on someone killing a pregnant woman. You cannot set OTHER laws AS IF that were a baby, a person. That’s what I say. It isn’t about abortions at all, it is about if the developing fetus is legally a person or not. (And for the record, dispite my life insurance rant which I am a bit sensitive to, I do not believe it is my nor government’s place to tell anyone else when sentient life begins… unless somehow science is able to prove it… which I doubt.)

Again, I have no idea what she put my answer down as.

She did end it by asking if the republican party could count on my vote and I laughed so hard I choked and had to apologise for not being able to talk.

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