There are a lot of questions couples ask before the decide to have a baby. Although I have no children of my own, I am the oldest of five kids and have babysat dozens of children and therefore understand what happens when two people decide to start a family. There are questions of whether the couple's relationship is secure, whether they are financially stable...Nancy Pelosi thinks there is one more thought to add to the list: "
Will having a child be too much of a burden on my state?"
Pelosi suggests adding
birth control funding to the current $825 billion stimulus package.
She attempted to explain to George Stephanopoulos yesterday how contraceptives related to the economy: "Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost."
Reduce cost for whom? The government. The big, all-controlling, Big Brother government. "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," Pelosi explained. "One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception,
will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
Where is the change we can believe in? Where is the innovative approach to old problems?
Pelosi is not attempting to address the issues of a broken system. Her solution to fixing the education system and healthcare is reducing the number of childen who can be recipients of it.
Children are not commodities, they are not part of a equation to fix the economy, and they are not something to be prevented because the government can't afford to continue the programs that they created. Pelosi should let people fund their own contraceptive needs and work on fixing the real problems at hand which are a lot more complex than handing out condoms.