Pelosi Already Politicizing The 'Stimulus' Package with Birth Control

Let's set aside the moral and religious issues for a moment. Pelosi somehow thinks that we can be made better off by giving federal money to the states. This seems like taking money from one's right pocket and sticking it in one's left pocket. True, the left pocket now has more money, but the right is down by the same amount. The person has no net gain. [Federal revenue, of course, comes largely from taxpayers that live in U.S. states. ]

But it's even worse than the pocket example. The only overhead or waste in the pocket example is the time it takes to switch the money between pockets. The overhead of sending local money to Washington, DC and then getting a fraction of it back after it goes through the political meat-grinder is, well, greater. As an aside, I find it amusing that she is now interested in reducing costs.

Drudge Report: PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY: "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic 'stimulus' package, claiming 'contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.' Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, 'Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom,' seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury. The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. 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. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."