Posted on 01/25/2009 1:54:03 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Speaker Pelosi: "No Apologies" for Including Taxpayer Funding for Contraceptives, Other Non-Economic Spending in Economic Bill Republicans Call for Bill Focused on Protecting and Creating Jobs
Washington, Jan 25 - Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), appearing this morning on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, said she has “no apologies” for including billions of dollars in spending unrelated to job creation – including taxpayer funding for contraceptives and the abortion industry – in congressional Democrats’ economic bill, which will reportedly be voted on by the House this week. The Speaker’s comments illustrate the degree to which congressional Democrats have taken President Obama's initial vision of a package focused on immediate job creation and fast-acting tax relief and turned it into just another bloated, unfocused, wasteful Washington spending bill. Here’s the exchange between Speaker Pelosi and Stephanopoulos:
STEPHANOPOULOS: We also heard from Congressman Boehner coming out of the meeting today that again a lot of that spending doesn’t even meet the same test you just talked about right now. … 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. Food stamps, unemployment insurance, some of the initiatives you just mentioned. What the economists have told us from right to left. There is more bang for the buck, a term they use, by investing in food stamps and in unemployment insurance than in any tax cut.
Regardless of where anyone stands on taxpayer funding for contraceptives and the abortion industry, there is no doubt that this once little-known provision in the congressional Democrats’ spending plan has NOTHING to do with fixing the economy and creating more American jobs. And the contraceptive funding is not an isolated case; the Democratic bill is actually loaded with spending that has no connection to supporting economic growth. On NBC’s Meet the Press today, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) asked how such funding will help the economy:
“But spending $200 million to fix up the National Mall, $21 million for sod, over $200 million for contraceptives, how is this going to fix an ailing economy?”
Republicans want to work with President Obama on a bill that focuses on preserving and creating jobs and will make an immediate impact on America's struggling economy. But in the halls of the Democratic Congress, the economic recovery package is quickly becoming just another unfocused, runaway bill loaded with slow and wasteful Washington spending on every conceivable goal. The American people are right to ask: just what else is in this legislation?
Besides being an idiot, Pelosi is “part of the problem”, a big part of t he problem.
Washington is totally out of control. TOTALLY. What a massive embarrassment to what WAS the greatest nation on earth.
I’m not interested in paying for handouts to Democrats.
The Democrats are the problem. No principles, just living off tax money.
Nazi Pelosi’s side won, and she’s going to strut her loony stuff. House Republicans should all switch to the Democratic Party, and join with blue dogs to dump Pelosi.
Jesus wept.
Botox makes your brain impervious to rational thought. It also makes your eyes look like ping pong balls.
Part of the “never let a good crisis go to waste” theory
This is now. Here is what it'll be in the future: well, the elderly euthanasia services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now...
I’m just sad that Pelosi’s parents didn’t have contraceptives readily available.
“sigh.”
If only!
..House Republicans should switch....etc....
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Not really a bad idea, course some of the R’s that shifted from D way back when would probably be treated like Dog $..t but they are getting that now-at least the newbies MAY get a say in policy etc....
When is the Speakership up for reelection? She had some opposition last time (Steney Hoyer MD).
Obama said vote for change and Pelosi says sorry its the same ole, same ole for us Democrats...
This woman is a ghoul.
If these beliefs are going to continue to be handed down in that family it probably would be best for all of them to be spayed or otherwise sterilized.
Great. Investing=higher taxes. So we're going to raise your taxes to pay for people who don't pay taxes and that is going to help the economy. Okay. I gotta Pelosi.
THE LIB/DEMS ARE JUST FINE WITH KILLING THOSE WHO 'COST' SOCIETY TOO MUCH.
“Botox makes your brain impervious to rational thought. It also makes your eyes look like ping pong balls.”
And her many face-lifts have given her a goatee!
I am the grand-daughter of Holocaust survivors.
Call Pellosi a Marxist, call her a pig but to call her a Nazi is ignorant and terribly offensive.
“THE LIB/DEMS ARE JUST FINE WITH KILLING THOSE WHO ‘COST’ SOCIETY TOO MUCH. “
unless they are gay and then the libs will spend unlimited funds to allow for survival of the same-sex diseases.
POS is better
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