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House Dems to Axe Birth Control Funds From Stimulus Bill
Fox News ^ | 1/27/09 | Major Garrett

Posted on 01/27/2009 5:29:57 AM PST by LittleBranch

"How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives? How does that stimulate the economy?"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; abortion; bhostimulus; contraception; economicgrowth; economicstimulus; pelosi; populationgrowth
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The government may save money over the next 5 years by eliminating babies. But when it comes time to figure out how to support social security there will be less hope than there is now.
1 posted on 01/27/2009 5:29:57 AM PST by LittleBranch
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To: LittleBranch

Pelosi is a mother of 5 ... poster child for rank hypocrisy.


2 posted on 01/27/2009 5:32:48 AM PST by mgc1122
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To: LittleBranch

Add Pelosi to the pile of people under the bus.


3 posted on 01/27/2009 5:33:12 AM PST by randita (If the government could "fix" the economy, we'd never have a recession.)
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To: LittleBranch; Admin Moderator

Please don’t change article titles - it leads to duplicated posts and general confusion in the forum.


4 posted on 01/27/2009 5:34:39 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: LittleBranch

a) As another thread suggests, this was all a canard to deflect attention away from other aspects of the bail-out.

b) However, they will add it on somewhere else at another time.

c) This is ala Malthus, who,as WSJ explains today, was WRONG.

Question: How many Americans do not have access to BC? It has got to be verrrry small. And frankly, having worked in an OB clinic, those who should not have children, do not care enough to prevent pregnancy.


5 posted on 01/27/2009 5:41:51 AM PST by madameguinot (Human Capital: Our Nation's Greatest Asset.)
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To: mgc1122

I guess we could have a retroactive China policy and eliminate 4 of them. The slippery slope is rapidly becoming a cliff and the dimocrat lemmings are trying to push us all off.


6 posted on 01/27/2009 5:46:22 AM PST by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: madameguinot

Like most government handout programs, this is just a gift to people who would otherwise pay for it -— namely college girls. (Dems buying votes, again)


7 posted on 01/27/2009 5:50:49 AM PST by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: LittleBranch
SS is structurally unsustainable. In 1950 there were 16 workers for every retiree, today there are 3.3, and by 2030, there will be two. The program is not worth saving, but if it is, taxes must be raised and benefits reduced. I suspect that more and more SS will become a means tested program. By 2017, SS goes into the red, i.e., it pays out more than it is taking in.

The US will increase its population by 135 million within the next 40 years. Two-thirds of the increase will come from immigration. Currently, our fertility rate is 2.1, right at replacement level.

8 posted on 01/27/2009 5:53:04 AM PST by kabar
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To: LittleBranch

I am worried they will take this out making the bill more attractive to republicans. We need this crazy stuff to make it unpopular. I heard BoB will try to get this removed, stay firm Nancy you nutcase!! We need you!


9 posted on 01/27/2009 5:57:17 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : " We need swift immediate action on my 10 year government spending plan")
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To: madameguinot
c) This is ala Malthus, who,as WSJ explains today, was WRONG.

The US will not be losing any population anytime soon. Immigration will see to that. We have the highest rate of population growth of any developed country in the world. In 1970 we were a nation of 200 million. Today we have 305 million and by 2050, we will have 439 million, most of it due to immigration, legal and illegal. And if there is an amnesty, another 66 million to 100 million more legal immigrants will come, sponsored by those who whose status was legalized.

10 posted on 01/27/2009 5:59:01 AM PST by kabar
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To: LittleBranch

Folks, step back a bit... well, more than a bit, and see the big picture.

The left is ANTI-FAMILY. When the family is the core sovereign entity in a society, people don’t need government.

Also, the family is THE way, historically, to pass on traditional values. Values which are antithetical to most leftist (and Satanic) ideology.


11 posted on 01/27/2009 6:01:38 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: madameguinot
having worked in an OB clinic, those who should not have children, do not care enough to prevent pregnancy.

Those pushing this agenda know this as well as you do. There's another agenda at work here.

12 posted on 01/27/2009 6:02:33 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: sickoflibs

Knowing how the Dems operate, they will take it out of this bill and sneak it in a future piece of legislation, either all at once or a little at a time. Either way, we will see it come up again and again until Pelosi gets what she wants.


13 posted on 01/27/2009 6:16:10 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: MrB
There is definitely an agenda .Everything so far in this new government has an agenda.They are pushing all of us to socialism .And we are letting it happen.The bail out of the banks is leading us to socialism .Before you know it we will be full blown communist.
14 posted on 01/27/2009 6:16:46 AM PST by minman (Americans stand up for your rights)
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To: Russ

You got to love Pelosi. If they didnt have this nutcase Nancy more republicans would vote with Dems. Obama knows he needs republican votes for cover. He misses GWB.


15 posted on 01/27/2009 6:18:49 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : " We need swift immediate action on my 10 year government spending plan")
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To: Russ
Knowing how the Dems operate, they will take it out of this bill and sneak it in a future piece of legislation...

Yep. Until it gets added and passed on "something" it will keep popping up regularly like a teenage boy's you know what, five minutes before the bell to change classes.

16 posted on 01/27/2009 6:22:15 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat. But they know what's best.)
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To: LittleBranch

What Repubs SHOULD be screaming about is the $ 1 billion + going to ACORN, a known criminal organization. ACORN is the real enemy of the country but no one is brave enough to say so. If ACORN keeps growing, the next presidentail election will also be stolen by voting fraud. Call me paranoid, but I am certain Obama would not have “won” without the several million votes stolen by ACORN.


17 posted on 01/27/2009 6:39:46 AM PST by pabianice
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To: LittleBranch

With all the layoffs, I predict a population explosion in about eight or nine months. After all, what better way to spend an afternoon?


18 posted on 01/27/2009 6:44:47 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty ("Let his days be few, and let another take his office." Psalm 109:8)
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To: LittleBranch
"How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives? How does that stimulate the economy?"

And if you can't justify it here, how can you justify it overseas?

19 posted on 01/27/2009 7:13:10 AM PST by Wil H (No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume No Records, No References, Nobama..)
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To: LittleBranch

I have nothing against contraceptives at all, but do not think this belongs in the bill.


20 posted on 01/27/2009 9:49:18 AM PST by Darwin Fish (God invented evolution. Man invented religion.)
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