The Heritage Foundation did a study that discovered children raised in a home with married parents are 82% less likely to face poverty. Only 7% of children living in homes that fall below the poverty line were living with married parents. – Salvo Magazine, Issue 23, Winter 2012, p. 20.
If we truly want to fight poverty, then let’s promote marriage!
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November 4, 2013 at 9:32 am
Jason:
You take one slim slither of a splinter and promote the Heritage Foundation? An abomination of 666 money greeders and Big Business!
The Heritage Foundation is a Republican, Tea Party based organization that opposes everything Democratic and everything Obama; it opposed Clinton’s initiative for Healthcare for Americans.
In December 2012, an announcement was made that Senator Jim DeMint would resign from the Senate to head the Heritage Foundation. Jim DeMint is a failed Tea Party Republican who believed he could control the Congress as a Lobbyist better than as a Senator. Jim DeMIn through the Heritage Foundation supported Ted Cruz’s Government Shut Down and near world economy collapse regarding the debt ceiling on the pretense of opposition to Obama’s Health Plan. The Republicans sat on their butts about it but hated the very thought that a black President giving Americans what they deserve instead of Tax Breaks and Bailouts to the Big Banks and Big Corporations of the Republicans.
NOTHING they say is believable; just like Fox News and Tea Party Folk; every Republican uses the same talking points: racist, foments secession, runs on supernaturalist fantasy, religious insanity fuel, hates people of colour, women, homosexuals and every advance in science that is not god myth and bible based from the stone age.
The Heritage Foundation supports the crackdown on women’s right to choose their own reproductive rights, think marriage is the only hope to eliminate poverty while fighting every inch of the way an increase in the minimum wage for the average American worker, citing institutions like Religion and Marriage as the saviours of society and that minimum wage increases will create more unemployment as jobs will shrink. What utter Nonsense.
According to the environmentalist group Greenpeace, organizations that the Koch brothers help fund such as Americans for Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato institute and the Manhattan Institute have been active in questioning global warming. Through Americans for Prosperity, the Koch brothers influenced more than 400 members of Congress to sign a pledge to vote against climate change legislation that does not include equivalent tax cuts. Everything the Heritage Foundation promotes is politically motivated and funded by wealthy Republicans like the Koch Brothers.
One 1997 study by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy identified twelve American foundations which have had a key influence on US public policy since the 1960s via their support for the Heritage Foundation, among others.
From 2005 to 2008, the Kochs vastly outspent ExxonMobil in giving money to organizations fighting legislation related to climate change, underwriting a huge network of foundations, think tanks, and political front groups. Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies – from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program – that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the “Kochtopus.”
Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity and Generation Opportunity ran more than $3 million worth of advertisements opposing the Affordable Care Act, including a series of ads in which Uncle Sam was depicted as a “creepy” doctor. The ads are directed at women and young adults, and are designed to “undermine confidence” and to dissuade younger people from enrolling in health care coverage through exchanges which opened October 1, 2013. In October 2013, the Americans for Prosperity group began a campaign to oppose “Obamacare” in the state of Virginia.
In recent years, Charles and David Koch have organized semiannual seminars to promote their political views. In June 2010, one such event was held in Aspen, Colorado, called “Understanding and Addressing Threats to American Free Enterprise and Prosperity”. The seminar program indicated that “past meetings have featured such notable leaders as Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas; Governors Bobby Jindal and Haley Barbour; commentators John Stossel, Charles Krauthammer, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh; Senators Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn; and Representatives Paul Ryan, Mike Pence, and Tom Price.”
An organization with ties to the Koch Brothers, Freedom Partners, gave grants worth a total of $236 million to conservative organizations, including Tea Party groups like the Tea Party Patriots and organizations which opposed The Affordable Care Act prior to the 2012 election.
Famous quote from the Republican/Tea Party/The Heritage Foundation Electoral Psychopedia, USA. “‘Tell a lie'”, they blare; “because even if it is a lie, 25% of the people will believe it and that’s all it takes to win an election. It’s better to apologize for four years inside the White House than to explain it for four years outside.
Who can believe a word they say?
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November 4, 2013 at 9:48 am
Save the rants. If you think the study is flawed in some way, find the study and demonstrate the error in their research.
Given your reasoning, we shouldn’t believe any statistics of the Guttmacher Institute regarding abortion since they are a pro-abortion organization with ties to Planned Parenthood. This is silly. Of course organizations with particular views will be interested in researching topics related to those views, and it would not be at all surprising that in many cases their statistical findings will support their position. To invalidate a study, you don’t look at who did it, but at their data.
Jason
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November 4, 2013 at 9:57 am
The old saying is Statistics don’t lie but liars statistic. It happens all the time. Who can believe anything Ted Cruz says except secessionist Texans.
Who can believe anything Rush Limbuagh says?
Who can believe anything Fox News says?
Even a rant is only a rant to someone who doesn’t agree with the rant but a keen observational insight for someone who does.
You support marriage; I do not.
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November 5, 2013 at 5:13 am
SonofMan – A classic example of ad-hominem if ever I saw one!
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November 5, 2013 at 8:51 am
scottspeig:
You need to look up the definition:
Listing factual accounts of nefarious operations is hardly ad hominem.
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November 6, 2013 at 5:19 am
Definition of AD HOMINEM
1: appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect
2: marked by or being an attack on an opponent’s character rather than by an answer to the contentions made
Since you rejected the premise based on the author rather than any particular argument, you did commit an “ad hominem”
Wikipedia mentions that it is “irrelevant facts” and so you could be justified in questioning the truthfulness of the source given your view of their “nefarious operations”, but not to the truthfulness of the premise itself.
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