Peter Schiff - Naugatuck, CT - Republican Town Committee - 11-18-09 - Part 7

Peter Schiff introduces himself to the Naugatuck,CT Republican Town Committee

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[sljs1010]

Imagine if Peter was president

[kobe88124]

Peter Schiff for Senate!

[selfrealizedexile]

Schiff should talk with Ron Paul more for tips on how to answer some of these socially conservative and military questions, but I think he still did all right. He should've also said succinctly he's for the US leaving the UN.

[christo930]

The total population of the earth is also increasing at an exponential rate. Western fertility has gone down because of wealth (but don't worry, the gov is working on that one), but the third world population is growing.

I can't see the consistency between a libertarian view and restricting access to abortion. Using the gov to force women to have children is hardly freedom, in any sense of the word.

[DrashmamTuke]

1) Population growth isn't the issue, it's the fertility replacement level. The only thing keeping the American fertility rate teetering near the replacement level is Mexican immigration (2.9 TFR). New England's fertility rate is identical to western European countries (1.5 tops).

2) I'm not saying abortion is the only reason for declining birth rates. There are many other reasons as well. With such a bad TFR America needs as much children as possible (TFR can be increased through tax cuts)

[christo930]

Taxes need to be reduced, there is no argument there. One problem I do have is where people want to seem to make the spending cuts. I believe all foreign aid should go and the military severely cut back before one single social safety net is cut. But many people want all the pork as long as we cut social programs.

I, for one, would rather have a much smaller military and not "help" foreign nations and not have to see starving people on the street.

[christo930]

How is it a strawman? There are 2 simple facts here:

1) US population grew by 50%

2) Abortion doesn't necessarily reduce the number of children a woman decides to have, just when. For example, I exist because my mother had a miscarriage the year before I was born. Had that baby gone to term, my mother wouldn't have had me but she would have had the same number of kids..

[deadman12078]

Our labor laws and taxes on profitable buisnesses are hurting us. I'm not saying all labor laws are bad but some hurt American workers.

If you were an invester would you invest your money in a country where the pay, taxes and construction costs were higher? You wouldn't since it hurts your return.

We will not see improvement in this country until a change in the way government taxes it's people and industry.

Start a buisness as I did and you will see the living hell our government is.

[DrashmamTuke]

@christo930

Call them whatever you want, the point is that they were potential tax payers that got snuffed.

As for your second statement, don't let the straw man collapse in on itself.

[christo930]

Foreign investment could help a great deal.

[christo930]

You also ignore the fact that the US population grew by 50% since Roe V Wade! In the early 70's US population was 200M, today it's well over 300M! You can't count an abortion as a lost child because in most cases a women will eventually have a child she wouldn't have had, had she not had the abortion.

[christo930]

Of course, the real problem with this statement is that it isn't true. Abortion hasn't killed any babies, it has killed fetuses.

Going by your logic, why don't we make it mandatory for all married couple to have at least 3 kids and all women who haven't had a kid by 34 gets artificially inseminated.