{"id":6964,"date":"2006-03-27T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2006-03-27T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T15:40:15","slug":"tying-immigration-to-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/tying-immigration-to-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tying immigration to abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The award for the most bizarre policy connection of the day goes to Georgia State Sen. Nancy Schaefer (R), who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/shared-blogs\/ajc\/politicalinsider\/2006\/03\/24\/abortion_and_the_job_market.html\">connected immigration and abortion<\/a> in a way I hadn&#8217;t thought possible. (thanks to Carpetbagger regular J.C. for the tip)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Guest-worker amnesty must be defeated in Washington, too. If it is not defeated, millions of illegal aliens who violated our laws will remain in American and bring their families here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Big employers may get the benefit of cheap labor, but the U.S. taxpayer will pay for their health care, food stamps, schooling for children, and income tax credits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am convinced it is a consequence [of] the almost 50 million children we have put to death in their mother&#8217;s womb through abortion. The large, unfilled job market in Georgia would not be a problem if the almost 50 million Americans were here, filling many of those jobs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to wrap my head around the logic, but it&#8217;s too early on a Monday for such absurdity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award for the most bizarre policy connection of the day goes to Georgia State Sen. Nancy Schaefer (R), who connected immigration and abortion in a way I hadn&#8217;t thought possible. (thanks to Carpetbagger regular J.C. for the tip) &#8220;Guest-worker amnesty must be defeated in Washington, too. If it is not defeated, millions of illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}