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Biden to China: ‘I fully understand’ your one-child policy

Aug. 22, 2011 4:59pm Meredith Jessup

We all know that Vice President Joe Biden makes verbal gaffes from time to time, but where do you draw the line between mundane word vomit and blatantly asinine statements?

During his ongoing visit in China, the vice president had this to say (in prepared remarks) regarding China’s controversial “one-child” policy:

“But as I was talking to some of your leaders, you share a similar concern here in China. You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family. The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable. So hopefully we can act in a way on a problem that’s much less severe than yours, and maybe we can learn together from how we can do that.”

Now let’s examine why this “gaffe” is much more serious than asking a paraplegic to stand for a round of applause. Life News explains:

The one-child policy, instituted by the Communist government in the late 1970s to stem rising population, compels couples in urban areas to have just one child and limits couples in rural areas to two children if the first child is a girl, as girls are seen as having lesser value than boys in some parts of the Asian nation.

The policy has stirred global controversy since it was implemented, as it has resulted in massive campaigns of forced abortions and sterilizations, fines for families violating the rule, sentences to prison and forced labor camps for violators and their families who shelter them from government officials, home detention, loss of jobs or government benefits, beatings and other human rights abuses.

Surely the vice president is aware of this controversy…? If so, how can he “fully understand” it? And in not “second-guessing” it, is he not condoning it?

This episode only further demonstrates the need to get our spending under control. We should not allow our addiction to spending excuse such a garish policy and we cannot let our financial recklessness force us to look the other way when it comes to moral issues.

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Comments (8)

paintbrushbright
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 5:58am
Joe loves China and would like to see the Democrats running America like their leaders do. Obama is almost doing it now.

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- paintbrushbright
  Posted on August 24, 2011 at 6:02am
  Except for the Jobs thing!
  
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pd39
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 2:44pm
One of the more serious unintended consequences of this policy is the disparity in male/female population.

1. Males, being expected to earn more, are responsible for supporting their parents and the parents of their wife, should they be fortunate enough to have one. This will include grandparents and great grandparent should the live that long.

2. The scarcity of women may eventually lead to designated “baby machines” ala hitler and his pure race.

3. In a country with a population of 3 billion, one would hardly think finding a suitable mate would be a problem, but when males outnumber females by such a great number, the population is bound to shrink as males turn more and more to unnatural acts for gratification, and women who are’t forced in to prostitution (comfort ladies) voluntarily make that choice to care for themselves and their families.

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seaaire
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 1:19pm
Biden is merely the sideshow. He takes the attention off of “the plan” to fundamentally change America, which by the way is coming together nicely. Obama wanted to crash the system[s] and it appears that he [and his Tzars] are doing guite nicely is completing the task. Someone needs to tell the American people that reversal of all that this administration is possible. Has anyone hear any of the persons wishing to replace Obama say what is possible?

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comradekoolaid
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 11:30am
Joe Biden is a COWARD!! I guess he also “fully understands” Hanoi Jane’s treasonous acts during the Vietnam war.

We have elected the freaking enemy!!!!!!!!!!!

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G0ddessM0ther
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 11:29am
Biden’s statement made no sense. Out of one side of his mother he was saying he understood the 1 child policy, and out of the other he stated how he knew it was proving a bad idea because they have 1 productive member of society now shouldering the burden to care for 4 older retired members…. What a complete and total moron. I doubt he ever thinks before he has words fly out of his mouth. Biden is definitely the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz….

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numbers
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:35pm
Biden should leave office and take a job on Jon Stewart as the token political clown. He’s far more stupid than any Republican who ever said a faux pas anywhere. In a just world the MSM would have long ago torn him apart and chased him out of office.

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karenjerry
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:11pm
Obama and Biden
What an embarrasment
Frick and Frat

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