1/26/09

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December 2008 Unemployment Rate: 7.2%

From The Drudge Report

PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY
Sun Jan 25 2009 22:13:43 ET

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."

Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.

The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.

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.

But, wait! When Social Security was passed there were 13 workers for every retireee, the retirement age was 65 and the average life expectancy was 66 years. In about 20 years there will only be two workers for every retiree and life expectancy will be in the 80’s. Isn’t the Social Security System running out of workers to pay benefits for retirees?   Isn’t “birth control” economically counterproductive?

But wait! Last year the Federal Government gave $309 million dollars to Planned Parenthood. $309,000,000. Now Democrats want to include $300,000,000 in their “Stimulus”. Where is the “stimulus” from last years gift to Planned Parenthood? How many people in the United States make prophilactics, birth control pills and perform abortions? Will this $300,000,000 save their jobs? 

But wait! Do you realize that if something should happen to the President and the Vice-President also goes “toes up”, Nancy Pelosi will become President of the United States?

But wait! Don’t you agree with me that Democrats should add $300,000,000 to the Stimulus Bill for Viagra? That would assure that the stimulus would actually stimulate some result.  And it would help to assure that the $300,000,000 for birth control was put to good use.   Would that cause a tingle up Chris Mathews leg?