DRUDGE FLASH 2009®: PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY
Right, so let me get this straight, children are a burden on society, so we should limit children to help the country out.
Isn't that a Mao line of thought? What next? Mandatory abortions and euthanasia to any kid born or found in the womb to be mentally deficient/retarded or otherwise a "financial burden"?
Maybe we should limit couples to 1 child, think of the dough we'll save!
I agree it has limited use in an economic stimulus package. You can say its tied to the economy in some way, but there's no way this is going to STIMULATE the economy.
But this is more an over all symptom of how in general extreme liberals like Pelosi try to get their views in. They know they can't come right out and say it most time, so it builds over time. Want to get to a point where the government is controlling how many kids you're allowed to have? You don't start with that. You start by giving a ton of different ways that people with kids, especially lots of kids, get to get large amounts of government money. You then start up saying you need to use government money to fund ways for people to have less kids becasue it impacts the economy due to how much government money they get, putting it into the publics mind that "Kids = Economic Difficulty". And from there you continue.
This is the same way you build upon wanting "regulation" to then "government oversight" to then "government control....its the same way you can use global warming and the whole "better safe than sorry" argument to slowly move up to the point where everyone is told what cars they can have, what houses they can live in, how much things they can buy, etc.
And notice I am saying the extreme left wing. I do not think the END result of many of these things are actually what MOST liberals start out wanting or thinking they want. However, its for that reason that those on the extreme left have realized how to slowly but surely manipulate those on their ideological side gradually, slowly implementing things and increasing it step by step so its a gradual increase that begins to "make sense", so that when the final parts are put into place it doesn't seem like a large leap but a logical step.
I have two thoughts on this:
1) As long as people have the right to make a choice in birth control, I am not against helping them.
2) However, help should come from the states, not the Federal government.
Agreed, if it happens it should be from a state level.
Also gotta agree with hautey in general about the "lazy" factor. CAN condoms fail? Yes, but its generally a rarity and the majority of the times it does its due to 1) ignorance or stupidity 2) laziness. Are some people allergic? Yes, but its a miniscule amount of the population.
Additionally, if we're saying that we're giving birth control aid to people for the "public good" then the only acceptable form should be condoms as they're the only one that stops both the things that could potentially put a drain on the economy and the public....unwanted pregnancy and diseases.