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  • Posted By: Aaliyah Caldwell 1994 @ 12/11/2008 1:30:21 PM

    i think that teen pregnancy needs to slow down in the united states there is a time for every thing and for some teens it is not there time to have kids so they need to try to slow it down. teen pregnancy is the big thing here and it is geeting bad. so some teen girls need to stop having sex and geeting pregnant....................

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 11:00:35 PM

    The Wall Street crisis was planned the night of Obama's meeting at Bill Ayres home to put Obama in The White House. Together they put a beautiful plan into place.

    This Strategy was first elucidated in the 1966 issue of 'The Nation' Magazine by a pair of radical Socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

    David Horowitz summarizes it as:

    "The strategy of forcing political change through an orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of Capitalism by overloading the Government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
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    Obama begin with ACORN by funneling millions into their organization. He then trained ACORN to stage protests in banks to force them to issue risky loans or they would be threatened to face racial charges. ACORN was trained to intimidate financial institutions into giving ???Ninja??? loans to people with NO assets, NO job and NO income, who couldn???t afford these loans.

    That caused the housing bubble two years ago it was by ACORN's actions they were able to destroy our credit system.

    As this played out, D-Barney Frank and D-Chris Dodd were able to cover up the millions of improvident loans to these bad risky house buyers. And Barney Frank and his chums successfully were able to block all of President Bush's attempts to put a rein on this problem.

    So Fannie & Freddie was forced to purchase all these failed subprime mortgages.

    Then both Frank and Dodd denied that there were any problems, and refused the Bush Admin. requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and they were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the 'minute they failed'.

    Democrats then blamed Bush saying it happened on his watch knowing it would hurt the Republican Party in the election setting it up that Barack Obama could use this to his advantage.

    Karl Marx once compared a Revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.

    Barack Obama is that Marxist mole !

  • Posted By: kjspanos @ 10/02/2008 11:14:42 AM

    Movies and television share the commonality of including at least a section of 'teen pregnancy' in their scripts, but are they addressing the issue in the right way? I think not. When good ole??? ???June-Bug??? told her father and step mother about her pregnancy, the only thing they could say was "I thought you were the kind of girl who knew when to say when.??? If there is something missing in the staging of these reactions, it???s definitely reactions. Parents aren???t going to be as calm and cool with their baby, having a baby! They never wanted to see anything like this happen to their own child, and yet, in these movies and T.V. shows, these parents can???t seem to lay any sort of derogatory mark on the table. Maybe the reason why so many teen girls find themselves pregnant every year is because they aren???t actually showing the consequences that are the parents??? reaction or when the mothers choose to keep and raise that baby. Hollywood has turned not only pregnancy into a glamorous fashion statement, but teen pregnancy into alluring state of being. Teen pregnancy will continue to be glamorized as long as the media makes it so.

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