Welcome to your Thursday open thread. It’s early spring, thanks groundhog! Anything going on in your neck of the woods?
Sixteen-year-old Justin Beiber did an interview with Rolling Stone and made the mistake of offering opinions on politics. (I have no idea why RS asked him this.)
RS asked Beiber if he would ever become an American citizen and he offered an answer other than “America f*ck yeah!”
“You guys are evil,” Bieber, a Canadian, says. Rolling Stone notes he’s joking. “Canada’s the best country in the world.” He then goes on to say, “We go to the doctor and we don’t need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you’re broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard’s baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby’s premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.”
Just in case you started to like the kid, here’s what he said regarding abortion:
“I really don’t believe in abortion,” Bieber says. “It’s like killing a baby?” How about in cases of rape? “Um. Well, I think that’s really sad, but everything happens for a reason. I don’t know how that would be a reason. I guess I haven’t been in that position, so I wouldn’t be able to judge that.”
Just remember, he’s only 16 years old. Most teenagers aren’t very politically aware.
I’ve said this before, and I will say it again. Unless your proposal includes a substantial increase in taxes and a substantial amount of cuts to the military budget as well as ending the farm subsidies and giveaways to big oil and big energy and big business, you can kindly just shut up about the deficit and the debt. Additionally, any cuts to entitlements need to include cuts to the CURRENT recipients, not grandfathering the boomers and then wondering why the cuts never materialize in the future.
I’m not holding my breath that we’ll get any kind of proposal like this.