Does the Obama Administration Have a Moral Compass?

John P. Holdren is Obama's science adviser and served as co-chairman when the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology met a little while ago. He's the co-author of "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," along with Paul and Anne Erlich. Erlich, some of you may remember, was the chicken little that predicted world wide famines in "The Population Bomb". He was wrong about everything...several times over, on several issues. Yet Statists, environmentalists, and continually wrong Malthusians keep sourcing him.

Some quotes from Holdren: "Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."

"A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men." "The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control."

"Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods." "To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements" "It must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets or livestock."

Then we have Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Obama's health care adviser: "When I began working in the health policy area about 20 years ago ... I thought we would definitely have to ration care, that there was a need to make a decision and deny people care." "I think that over the last five to seven years ... I've come to the conclusion that in our system we are spending way more money than we need to, a lot of it on unnecessary care. If we got rid of that care we would have absolutely no reason to even consider rationing except in a few cases." What few cases would that be and who would decide? Seems to me rationing health care is an all or nothing proposition.

"Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years."

... "services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed."

These two guys are a piece of work. Obama supports this or he wouldn't have them as advisers. Obama makes a joke about pulling the plug on grandma. This is no joke. This is immoral. This is sick and disgusting. The government making life and death decisions. I'll leave that to God thank you very much.