Proof No. XVIII On Why Conservatives Really Don’t Care About Small Government or Stopping Spending
Senate Finance Committee Approves Amendment Providing Millions for Abstinence Education
So here we go again. Senator Orin Hatch proposed this amendment which would provide $50 million per year through 2014 solely for abstinence education programs. These are the same experimental programs that have been shown to be a failure and that President Obama cut from the budget because they do not work. But you can count on Republicans in congress to tell people in town halls that the spending has to stop, that we have to stop spending money on ineffective programs or (the best of all) that you can only trust repubs with your money. But the minute one of their craziest constituencies creams, they are perfectly willing to waste whatever money it takes. And spending this money on abstinence-only is a waste.
All repubs and two “conservative” Democrats voted to waste your money this way. In the scheme of thing this is not alot of money, but when this committee should be working at figuring out how to pay for health insurance overhaul, insisting using this bill to waste money on more failure is criminal.
Tags: Republican Bamboozlement
Hopefully this amendment will get removed from the bill. I love how fiscal conservatives like to waste money on ineffective programs.
$50 million dollars to educate operatives in sexual abstinence, would actually be a smart investment if it were just limited to republican party operatives. Their sexcapades have cost their party far more than that…
U.I. and kavips,
You are so right, there is hypocrisy on top of hypocrisy here. It’s like the Republicans have a set of those Russian nesting dolls dedicated to hypocrisy. Open the big one and theres five more layers of stinking hypocrisy just waiting to pop out.
Hypocrisy (def): The false profession of desirable or publicly approved qualities, beliefs, or feelings, esp. a pretense of having virtues, moral principles, or religious beliefs.
It’s is too bad that we cannot come up with a good sex ed that will curb youths from having sex before marrage. My son is in middle school (6-8 grade) where the protection only method of sex ed is being taught. Well this has led to girls wearing wrist bands that represent what sex act they will do. And the boys have a game to see who can get lipstick on their penis during school. This is appaling, sex didn’t start till age 16 when I was in school 17 years ago. I think a combo approch of abstience and safe sex may be a better approach.