Contraceptives - bad for the economy! (Sarcasm)

 18 mainly negative comments so far - and plenty more elsewhere, I
hope. Shall we write to our newspapers and make it clear we mean
business?

Yes, I've heard the argument that we can't afford to have any
country's birth rate drop below a certain level - but obviously, no
family can afford to have more children than it can afford! Not to
mention that little issue of people maybe NOT WANTING children in the
first place? Don't we have enough children languishing in foster care
already? Shouldn't we be working on how to keep the country going
without a young "slave" population - maybe through greater personal
frugality?

http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/01/23/contraceptives-not-the-kind-of=
-stimulus-boehner-can-believe-in/

First paragraphs:

 Barack Obama’s $825 billion plan to boost the recession-bound U.S.
economy has some elements that, well, aren’t the sort of
stimulus that House Minority Leader John Boehner says he can believe
in.

“I’m concerned about the size of the package, and I’m concerned about
some of the spending that’s in there,” Boehner complained Friday after
a meeting at White House.

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

(click to read the rest)

Lenona.

  lenona321@yahoo.com wrote:


Nope, if we did, we wouldnt see so many buying kids from 3rd world countrys.


Doesnt work, you end up with no one paying taxes and all the geriatrics starving.


http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/01/23/contraceptives-not-the-kind-of-stimulus-boehner-can-believe-in/


Someone has to make them, stupid.


I clicked there and nothing happened. I wanna refund.

 Rod Speed wrote:


Yes, but those are NEW children and the adopting parents can feel good because
they're giving a NEW life to this NEW little child from far away.  The locals
are just partially-broken ghetto kids and probably have diseases, deformities
and lice.


Apparently they don't make very good slaves...


starving.

http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/01/23/contraceptives-not-the-kind-of-stimulus-boehner-can-believe-in/

It's mind-boggling that there's an official anti-contraceptive ideology not
related to the Catholic church.  Surely preventing the birth of unwanted
children is a GOOD thing, no matter whose children they are.  I regard it as an
investment, not an expense.

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 The Real Bev wrote:

And, NEW children are all the rage with celebrities.

Marsha/Ohio

 The Real Bev wrote

they're giving a NEW life to this NEW

and probably have diseases, deformities

It happens with the kids from 3rd world countrys too. That 7 up doco series had
one on russians and one of them ended up in the US with the same problems.


starving.


http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/01/23/contraceptives-not-the-kind-of-stimulus-boehner-can-believe-in/


related to the Catholic church.

Nothing that the god botherers get up to ever boggles my mind.

After all, it was them that burnt each other at the stake very enthusiastically.

In fact it got so bad at one time in germany that the buildings on the downwind
side of
the town square ended up with considerable deposits of human fat on them, quite
literally.


whose children they are.

Clearly the silly old farts in Rome feel otherwise.

Its not too surprising that some other god botherers agree with them.

In fact plenty of moslems feel the same way.


Sure, but you arent a brainless god botherer, just a gorgon with a horned
helmet.