Another shining moment for The Wicked Witch of Washington. If you read Drudge you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t here we go:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?
PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.
Seriously Nancy? There is so much wrong with that statement that I don’t even really know where to start. Did someone not tell you that free birth control has been available for quite a while? Guess what: it doesn’t do any good when people don’t use it.
The solution to your problem is not to prevent people from having babies – it’s to minimize their dependence on the programs that are bankrupting the country. If you plan on bearing the financial burden for every person in the country, then naturally the solution to economic problems is less people to provide for. However, in real life, doesn’t it make a lot more sense to focus on what you can control – which is how much you’re spending on those programs? You’re not going to control how many babies people have unless you want to turn into China.
Where I lived in OH, there was a family in our apt complex they were 5th generation welfare.
This reminds me of an Anna Quindlen column I once read, back when I used to subscribe to Newsweek. The upshot of the column was that we need to make abortion more readily available in all these “backwards” southern states like Mississippi, Alabama etc., because then fewer women will be living below the poverty line. Ms. Quindlen lamented the deplorable conditions that see women in those states having to travel across state lines to have an abortion. Many can’t do it and of course that means they’re relegated to a lifetime as paupers. I remember talking to some women at the time about that column. Most were not able to grasp the problem with it. Most seemed to agree that these poor women in these states were so unfortunate because they didn’t have abortion on demand. Don’t you just love social engineering?
That’s horrendous – but it’s the logical next step from what Pelosi is talking about here. As long as we see the people as the problem, the way to remedy that problem will be to eliminate them.
It’s not that surprising from the party of Fifth Trimester Abortion.
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Hey Tab! Great minds and all!!
http://www.armchairenergist.com/?p=1622
I did a piece on the same thing on the show today. Took her apart like a Tinkertoy castle.
Awesome Michael. Good stuff.
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In addition to Politics, I also do a little bit of Sexual Health blogging too. I just had to list the link to this one that you just put up over on mine. It was very good!
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