Comments on Racine Post: Now the NY Times rips Racine on infant mortality

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2009-12-28T23:26:12.808-06:00

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Maybe, when a strong federal government finally sh...

2009-12-21T10:37:52.158-06:00

Maybe, when a strong federal government finally shuts down the zoos and other animal-oriented follies,we'll take care of PEOPLE for a change. Then, perhaps, fewer babies will die.

Today a good friend called and shared some informa...

2009-12-09T12:23:24.389-06:00

Today a good friend called and shared some information which convinced me that Racine's elite needs to readjust its priorities. In a town which leads much of the world in high infant mortality rates, we're playing with "stork conservation" at the zoo. That's right, we're protecting and preserving birds with a legendary reputation for delivering babies. It's funny that our plutocrats (who darned well keep Racine's unnecessary menagerie in cash) can't do more to help poor infants. Alas, Racine's disadvantaged kiddies aren't young African marabou storks. If they were, the low-income minority babies would receive excellent care. (None of the above is an attack on Mr. Christie and his friends at the zoo. The responsibility for Racine's infatuation with follies while infants perish belongs to the hyper-privileged corporate class.)

Dear 12:10 P.M., If we sincerely believed that ALL...

2009-12-09T05:07:56.112-06:00

Dear 12:10 P.M., If we sincerely believed that ALL of America's children--the future of our nation--deserved a decent start in life, we'd find the financial and legal means to intervene and, if necessary, remove neglected babies from their mothers' custody. However, we don't do this because the rich and their epigones are reluctant to pay taxes to fund such programs. Also, there's a heck of a lot of racism out there. Most of our lily-white plutocrats aren't concerned about non-Caucasian kids' well-being and survival. In fact, some big-buck bigots welcome high minority infant mortality as a solution to social problems. Finally, there's the class factor. For many elitists, poor children of any race are perceived as expendable.

It is pretty unfair to compare our infant deaths t...

2009-12-08T12:20:07.407-06:00

It is pretty unfair to compare our infant deaths to anywhere else. How can anyone be sure the circumstances are the same but for lack of special programs?

Maybe they should just mandate that we have to provide everything they provide and then the county can pick up the tab. They already do that for the courts and patients in nursing homes. We are going broke having to pay for what they choose had to be provided. We live here why shouldn't we decide how to spend the county money?

These women should not have babies. If you want to...

2009-12-07T15:32:04.991-06:00

These women should not have babies. If you want to reduce infant mortality - these women (babies) need to stop having babies. They do not have the money, skills and nurturing to have health babies. Then add to that drugs, alchohol and absent fathers - this is a prescription for death.

We do not know why the babies are dying. It could...

2009-12-07T12:10:43.191-06:00

We do not know why the babies are dying. It could just be that the moms are doing drugs. I live in the inner city and there is a lot of pot smoking and drinking done. We cannot intervene so much so that we care more about the baby than the mother does. That would only end up in death as soon as we stop intervening. These pregnant woman need to care about the baby they are carrying, the help is there.

In the mean time, while rich twits play, poor babi...

2009-12-05T04:09:57.643-06:00

In the mean time, while rich twits play, poor babies pine away.

Dear 12:20 PM, The proposal to have all American k...

2009-12-05T04:04:19.674-06:00

Dear 12:20 PM, The proposal to have all American kids (plutocrats' progeny included) do two years of military or community service was not intended as a scheme to punish the socio-economic elite. Rather, it was put forward as a way to promote equality, empathy and national unity. As matters stand today, most hyper-privileged American youngsters don't possess a clue concerning the problems of our poor and working class citizens. Perhaps if the ultra-advantaged kids were to see and experience the grim existence endured by capitalism's victims, they'd develop a capacity for compassion. In time, some of the super-solvent youngsters just might feel obliged to help their less-fortunate fellow Americans. Maybe then we'd finally get serious about solving our infant mortality problem.

Please don't forget Mark 9:37. That verse contains...

2009-12-04T21:50:58.368-06:00

Please don't forget Mark 9:37. That verse contains an important message for all of us.

Dear 12:20 and 12:21 PM, Please read Matthew 25:31...

2009-12-04T13:03:51.943-06:00

Dear 12:20 and 12:21 PM, Please read Matthew 25:31-46.

Give them bus tickets to Madison. Problem solved.

2009-12-04T12:21:31.568-06:00

Give them bus tickets to Madison. Problem solved.

Why should the so called Elite be punished? We al...

2009-12-04T12:20:28.388-06:00

Why should the so called Elite be punished? We already have plenty of money for programs. There is fraud and abuse. There should be accountability. You want free money.You make a baby and need intervention. Then don't take drugs, don't hang out around anyone who is using drugs. Get a job, stay in school, get good grades, don't support a loafing man with the handout. Work on parenting because it is work. Is that too much to ask?

We will get in life what we reward. If we reward unmarried pregnant teens with questionable lifestyles then we will get more of the same.

If we help with strings attached then we should be able to at some point get it under control.

Yes, but when circumstances are favorable and the ...

2009-12-03T19:31:40.295-06:00

Yes, but when circumstances are favorable and the means are available, charity--which begins at home--doesn't have to end there. Ideally, we should be able to help poor people here and abroad.

Any way you look at the problem, charity should be...

2009-12-03T18:41:13.189-06:00

Any way you look at the problem, charity should begin at home.

Perhaps if the moolah we blew on foreign aid had b...

2009-12-03T18:38:50.439-06:00

Perhaps if the moolah we blew on foreign aid had been kept in the USA and used to provide our citizens with low-cost or free health care, we wouldn't have such high infant mortality rates here.

Dear 7:15 AM, The name of Greg Mortenson's fundrai...

2009-12-03T18:34:54.247-06:00

Dear 7:15 AM, The name of Greg Mortenson's fundraising program is "Pennies for Peace," NOT "Pennies for Pakistan." However, I must admit that a lot of the money the kids collect will wind up over there. When will we Americans learn to take care of our own needy people before we send cash overseas?

For those who want a copy of Greg Mortenson's "Sto...

2009-12-03T15:43:49.972-06:00

For those who want a copy of Greg Mortenson's "Stones into Schools," Walmart has it for $18.77 plus tax.

Yeah, but that's not so good for the dying babies ...

2009-12-03T12:05:50.351-06:00

Yeah, but that's not so good for the dying babies here in Racine. Until the elite learns to care about unglamorous suffering people right here on its doorstep, Racine's infant mortality rate will continue to soar.

There's no denying that the wealthy are into trave...

2009-12-03T12:03:01.082-06:00

There's no denying that the wealthy are into travel and admire adventurers like mountaineers. Since the rich usually don't have any real challenges in their lives, they groove on dangerous, totally-futile activities such as mountain climbing. Greg Mortenson was lucky that his (to us) insane hobby got him a cool million for his Central Asia Institute.

Somebody has to teach our elite respect and empath...

2009-12-03T11:56:35.250-06:00

Somebody has to teach our elite respect and empathy for their not-so-solvent fellow Americans. Perhaps if the government took all high school graduates, including trust fund brats, and made them do two years of military service, the elite would see how other people struggle to survive and would understand their problems. Then maybe the privileged class would listen to an ordinary guy who wanted them to fight infant mortality here instead of sending mega-bucks to a mountain climber who'd spend it in Pakistan.

Exactly. And that's one reason why the rich won't ...

2009-12-03T11:48:09.855-06:00

Exactly. And that's one reason why the rich won't be saving the lives of poor American babies anytime soon.

The guy who said that "the rich are different" was...

2009-12-03T11:39:20.569-06:00

The guy who said that "the rich are different" wasn't wrong. Often the wealthy (and those whom they support) go in for non-mainstream hobbies. For example, Greg Mortenson liked mountaineering and even made trips to the Himalayas to climb killer peaks for the sheer heck of it. Greg's mountaineering brought him into contact with the plutocrat who gave him a big chunk of change for his Central Asia Institute. Without sounding cynical, I don't think that the mountaineering entrepreneur would have been too eager to help a guy who rooted for the Packers and held a blue collar job.

This is just a theory and I'm not trying to be "Mi...

2009-12-03T11:24:26.362-06:00

This is just a theory and I'm not trying to be "Mister Know-It-All." From what my history teachers have told me, privileged people tend to be internationalists. By and large, they have more in common with their foreign peers than they have with the common folks in their homelands. In the olden days, this was certainly true of Europe's royalty and nobility, who regularly married foreigners and conversed with each other using either Latin or French, the universal tongues of privileged people back then. Today, the owners of multinational companies and their upper-echelon retainer classes have a similar mindset. On the whole, they're more interested in the latest fashions from Paris or Milan and Spanish micro-cuisine than anything which would be part of an ordinary American's daily existence. Because they've outsourced jobs galore to Third and Second World countries and have invested fortunes over there, elitists are more concerned about schools for little Pakistanis than they are about dying American babies.

What I'd like to know is the reason for all this c...

2009-12-03T11:09:35.435-06:00

What I'd like to know is the reason for all this cosmopolitan bosh. Somebody must want it in the schools or it wouldn't be there.