Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage

The New York Times ^ | 01/14/04 | ROBERT PEAR and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Is there a time when maybe we will actually stop spending? It is getting ridiculous.

[George from New England]

Bush can just close his eyes and get re-elected. This is great stuff!

[breakem]

Our government inaction.

[ambrose]

Bush is a Fiscal Conservative Ping.

[ohioWfan]

Solving the problems in marriages and the families will go a long way to solving the overall problems in our society.

If there is ANYTHING worth spending money on, IMO, it is this.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

So, is this money coming out of the Bush family coffers?

[NutCrackerBoy]

Presidents these days are expected to toss off a few executive orders at a buck, buck-fifty. Clinton used 'em to federalize land. It is PR-smart to do something "positive" to counter-balance the "negative" of banning gay marriage. NYT says some liberals have also expressed interest in marriage-education programs.

This is a good idea.

[F16Fighter]

"Is there a time when maybe we will actually stop spending? It is getting ridiculous."

The next GOP Administration "election-year initiate" will be another $2 billion boondoggle to "promote safe sex while driving."

[bvw]

Dr Wade F. Horn, the assistant secretary of health and human services for children and families:

"This initiative will not force anyone to get or stay married. The last thing we'd want is to increase the rate of domestic violence against women."

In other words, in the most obvious reading of Dr. Horn's own words: "Marriage, in and of itself, increases domestic violence against women."

Not exactly the attitude to have going into a program designed to encourage marriages. Sorry, Mr. Bush, until that mindset is changed a FedGov program to encourage marriage may ruin more than it helps. It's like having the State Department pursue our national interest in foreign policy.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda ping - marriage defense spending - this article is kind of confusing.
A. Too much spending. Why the heck should the federal gov't get into the counseling business???
B. Beating around the bush - just get the marriage amendment rolling and be done with it.

(IMHO)

If anyone wants on or off this ping list, inform me!
(it's usually a rather busy one)

[Salvation]

God bless President Bush.

We all need to support this program even if it is with only $5.00 or our encouragement.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Will this guy EVER stop spending? My God..every week it's something else!

[Salvation]

**If there is ANYTHING worth spending money on, IMO, it is this.**

Amen!

[Mulder]

What a freakin' joke.

And this was supposed to be the year that William Jefferson Bush was going to slow down the wild spending.

[xrp]

Bush can just close his eyes and get re-elected. This is great stuff!

Sure! SPEND, SPEND, SPEND! Bush might waste taxpayer dollars to get more people to get/stay married, BUT they won't be able to afford children thanks to tax increases that will have to happen in Bush's 2nd term or when whomever gets the office after him in 2009 has to increases taxes THROUGH THE ROOF to pay for Bush's liberal spending sprees. Yes, Bush is a liberal Republican. The only thing that allows him to use 'Republican' in his name is that he bombs our enemies and the fact that the Republicans have COMPLETELY abandoned the conservative cause.

[Mulder]

We all need to support this program even if it is with only $5.00 or our encouragement.

No "we" don't.

If you want my hard-earned money, why don't you personally come and take it, insteading of asking your elected theives and whores in DC to do it?

[Mulder]

Solving the problems in marriages and the families will go a long way to solving the overall problems in our society.

Just like all the gov't spending on "families" since the 1960s made things better?

I find it hard to believe that people are really this stupid, just because an "R" is in the White House.

[Mulder]

So, is this money coming out of the Bush family coffers?

No, but he and his fellow thieves will get the credit for it, as you can already see here.

[Ed_in_NJ]

It is ridiculous.

Defending straight marriage is good - blowing $1.5 B is totally unnecessary.