READER'S POST #11 - Sometimes Mercury and Carcinogens are Good for You, I Guess

By: 32slim32

Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the floor of the Senate last week and had this to say, “In exchange for extending this middle class tax break, Republicans are insisting, among other things, that we pass an unrelated ideological piece of legislation that will make our water less safe to drink. This would allow mercury and other carcinogens (the never brilliant dunce from Nevada pronounced it wrong by the way) to be put in our water supply. That’s a pretty stark, huh, compromise. We’ll give you a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans if you will let us continue to put things like mercury and arsenic in the water….”

Video here: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/02/disgusting-harry-reid-republicans-want-to-put-arsenic-and-mercury-in-the-water-video/

First and unrelated, where does he get 160 million Americans getting a payroll tax break from? According to the most recent “The Employment Situation” there are only 141.6 million Americans employed. Who are the other 18.4 million getting a payroll tax break?

Now, back to the genius from Nevada, if mercury is so bad Mr. Reid, why did you and the majority of Democrats pass the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007 in which incandescent light bulbs were to be banned and compact fluorescent light bulbs to take their place, which contain mercury? If mercury is so bad that you would make such comments like above, why would you vote to make it a common fixture in every room of our homes? I believe Congress has de-funded the incandescent bulb ban, but it still doesn’t change the fact that the majority of Democrats voted to force us to have light bulbs containing mercury in every room in our homes. How do we know when mercury is good for us and when it isn’t? Thank God we have Harry Reid and the Democrats to let us know when we should fear monger over it and when we should not be alarmed by a little mercury.

What is a carcinogen? A carcinogen is a substance that is capable of causing cancer in humans or animals.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization (WHO). Its major goal is to identify causes of cancer. The most widely used system for classifying carcinogens comes from the IARC. In the past 30 years, the IARC has evaluated the cancer-causing potential of more than 900 likely candidates, placing them into one of the following groups:

• Group 1: Carcinogenic to humans
• Group 2A: Probably carcinogenic to humans
• Group 2B: Possibly carcinogenic to humans
• Group 3: Unclassifiable as to carcinogenicity in humans
• Group 4: Probably not carcinogenic to humans

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/OtherCarcinogens/GeneralInformationaboutCarcinogens/known-and-probable-human-carcinogens

A small list of Group 1 carcinogens includes; arsenic, asbestos, Benzo[a]pyrene  (in cigarette smoke), and oral contraceptives.

(Full list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_1_carcinogens)

Wait. What? Oral contraceptives? I thought they promoted “women’s health”. I believe President Obama said, “"No woman's health should depend on who she is or where she works or how much money she makes." (For the record, I am a little Libertarian in some of my views, I could care less about how many birth control pills a woman takes, how many abortions she has as long as tax payers don’t have to pay for them, or whom you marry. I hate being BS’d though.)

Apparently this is the most pressing issue of our time as it seems to continue to dominate in the mainstream media. Thank goodness we aren’t running trillion dollar deficits or in the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression or paying $3.50 a gallon for gas. Oh wait, we still are.

So carcinogens in our water is bad but if a woman puts them directly in her body via oral contraceptives that somehow promotes “women’s health”. Does smoking cigarettes while on the pill also promote “women’s health”? Are there any other group one carcinogens that promote “women’s health? How about asbestos? Arsenic?

According to Planned Parenthood’s website, birth control pills cost between $15 and $50 per month. Why is it so important to make it free, if it is already fairly cheap? Surely something that promotes all of the great health benefits of birth control pills is worth $0.50 to $1.66 per day to the woman desiring “optimal health”. By the way what are all of the medical benefits of birth control pills? Well, they keep you from getting pregnant, regulate menstrual cycles, help with acne, and increase your risk of getting breast cancer. What a deal.

Where does it end? If birth control should be free, what are next, free boob jobs? Free nose jobs?

 

Before I get into my abortion rant let me reiterate, I am all for abortions. I just don't want any part of paying for them. My problem with abortions is the way the left changes the language. They say, “I am pro-choice”. No you’re not, you are pro-abortion. The Democrats don’t care about choices when it comes to paying union dues; they hate right-to-work laws. They don’t want you to be able to choose which toilet you put in your house, have to use the low flow toilets. They don’t want you to be able to choose your light bulbs either. The list could go on and on.

My favorite though is, “reproductive rights”. Isn’t that what women in China need? In America, that means the right to have an abortion. Shouldn’t you call it “destructive rights” if you are going to call it something other than abortion rights? It’s not about your right to reproduce; no one is trying to stop that.

Like I said, take all the birth control pills you want and have all the abortions you want, just don’t BS me with your stupid little language tricks. Say it proudly, “I am pro-abortion” or at least say it like it is, “I am single issue pro-choice”. Tell me you are for “abortion rights”; don’t give me this “reproductive rights” horse squeeze.

Why is it Democrats love to tax the bejeezus out of one carcinogen (cigarettes) and want to mandate someone else provide you with another carcinogen (oral contraceptives) for free? What on earth would the left and the White House run media say if Republicans wanted to make carcinogens readily available and free for all? Do these oral contraceptives come with a Surgeon General’s warning?

It almost seems as if we should be saying, “The Democrats want you to get cancer and die”. That’s what they would do.

I can’t wait for the next trivial insignificant election year issue to come up while we completely ignore the sad state of the economy (CBO projects only a 2% growth in GDP), rising unemployment (The CBO also projected the jobless rate would rise to 8.9 percent by the end of 2012, and to 9.2 percent in 2013.), continued trillion dollar plus deficits, and a ballooning national debt.

Link to CBO claims: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/cbo-forecast-trillion-dollar-deficits-slow-growth-and-high-employment/

By the way liberals, where is it in America that you can’t get birth control pills and/or an abortion? The way you guys and the White House run media go on about it you’d think it had been banned. Did a majority of the states recently pass legislation ending the practice of abortion or the distribution of birth control pills and/or devices?

I guess if I were Obama I wouldn’t want to discuss his record either or the Fast and Furious scandal.

One last question, if birth control promotes “women’s health” does that mean pregnancy has been declared a disease or illness?

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