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.