What Used To Be Vices Could One Day Be Entitlements
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Odd to see Democrats adopting a fundamentalist moralizing tone towards women’s occupational choices. Apparently, being a sex worker is no longer a perfectly acceptable lifestyle.
House Democrats say Global Warming turns women into prostitutes.
Increasing the supply of prostitutes should bring the price down. So is that a bug, or a feature?
Joe Doakes
It’ll be a feature when President Obama institudes the Affordable Sex Act, forcing everyone in the US – married or single, punctilious or libertine, patron or not – to pay for everyone else’s hookers.
January 16th, 2014 at 5:38 am
Hookers the Entitlement: Not just for the Secret Service!
January 16th, 2014 at 8:47 am
You joke, but build a time machine, go back 50 years, and tell people that in 2014:
-You can buy pot in stores, just like you buy oil
-If you own a business, you have to give free birth control pills to your employees.
-In certain industries, if you don’t particapate in homosexual marriages, the gov’t will take your business away from you.
-It is basically illegal to sing Christmas songs in public schools.
It does make you wonder what is coming next from the hard left.
January 16th, 2014 at 10:56 am
Mark Steyn recently quoted Bob Hope from 1975: “I just left California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they made it compulsory.”
Soon, mere tolerance of the “alternative lifestyle” will not be sufficient; everyone will be required to embrace it.
January 16th, 2014 at 11:29 am
Back in the seventies, when women’s lib was in full force, prostitution was considered by some to be another valid expression of a woman’s right to choose what she did with her body. Remember the popularity of “The Happy Hooker”? I believe she was a madam wrote for Playboy or Penthouse, or similar. She was a Dutch woman named Xaviera something and was celebrated as a free spirited liberated woman. Even as recently as the 90’s prostitution wasn’t too badly disparaged – remember “Pretty Woman”? Of course all prostitutes must look and act like Julia …
Now they’ve been rediscovered, are being victimized, and are called sex workers. It’s always been a nasty business done by nasty people. However, I wouldn’t hold sex workers, as a group, totally blameless. Of course that excludes minors who enter the business either willingly or forced.
A good prevention model would hold those engage in any aspect of it accountable for their part and punished or rehabilitated as appropriate.
January 16th, 2014 at 2:40 pm
Food shortages? “Global warming”, if were actually true…would likely increase growing seasons, therefore increase the food supply. But we can’t argue logic with idiots.
January 16th, 2014 at 2:46 pm
Socialist economic policies lead to more poverty than their more fiscal conservative counterparts. Yet, I don’t read reports of these vacuous bobble-heads decrying poverty subsidies as causing an increase in young women turning to prostitution…
January 16th, 2014 at 3:10 pm
It’s funny that the left wing cowards never speak out against Islam which considers homosexuality an offense punishable by death.
January 16th, 2014 at 3:56 pm
To cheer you up…..Non-partison budget office (can’t recall exact title) came out with news that the state of Wisconsin has a very large surplus coming up.
So check out the left wing Wisconsin State Journal story on it…..the comments. The Madison lefties are very angry. Governor Walker’s Wisconsin has a large budget surplus, and he is giving it back to the taxpayers of the state. Nothing pisses off a leftwinger than good news like that.