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kpete

(72,062 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 10:21 AM Jun 2015

Nevada GOP congressman: My kids ‘will not be a drain on society’ like disabled children

“I have three children,” Hardy explains. “One of them is summa cum laude and two were magnum cum laude. The other one, he didn’t need an education. He works for Raytheon, smarter than all the rest. He works hard, he builds things that are genius. Some people have that ability.”

“But they all work hard. They are raising their own families,” he continued. “They will not be a drain on society, the best they can. Hopefully they will never have some disability that causes them to have to utilize that.”



Nevada State Democratic Party released a statement this week calling on Hardy to apologize to people with disabilities.

“If Cresent Hardy wants to talk about ‘drains on society,’ he should point a finger at his buddy, deadbeat rancher Cliven Bundy, not disabled children,” Nevada State Democratic Party spokesperson Zach Hudson insisted. “Hardy has compared employment non-discrimination laws to ‘segregation,’ agreed with Mitt Romney that 47% of the American people are ‘freeloaders,’ and now called children with disabilities ‘drains on society.’”



http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/nevada-gop-congressman-my-kids-will-not-be-a-drain-on-society-like-disabled-children/

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Nevada GOP congressman: My kids ‘will not be a drain on society’ like disabled children (Original Post) kpete Jun 2015 OP
Piss on that guy. dawg Jun 2015 #1
Why doesn't he just call them "useless eaters" and be done with it...? First Speaker Jun 2015 #2
another repug samsingh Jun 2015 #3
the Holocaust was mainstream in Germany decades before anyone thought of it MisterP Jun 2015 #4
Interesting but not totally accurate. Down at the bottom of the page it lists related articles. jwirr Jun 2015 #5

jwirr

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5. Interesting but not totally accurate. Down at the bottom of the page it lists related articles.
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 03:16 PM
Jun 2015

Eugenics. The article says that the term was first used in 1920 in Germany. But the idea came straight from the eugenics movement in the USA and we got it from England. Read "War Against the Weak" by Edwin Black. This practice was very common in the USA. Sterilization, institutionalization were the tools. Hitler added concentration camps.

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