ABC This Week: Nancy Pelosi defends money for Family Planning in Stimulus Bill

 Pelosi Defends Family Planning Spending in Stimulus Package

January 25, 2009

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/01/pelosi-defends.html

Pelosi was also asked about some of the more controversial spending in the stimulus package, including hundreds of millions to expand family planning services.

“The family planning services reduce cost,” Pelosi said. “One of the elements of this package is assistance to the states. 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.”

 

Having more babies increases the population and labor force and usually results in more not less economic growth–for example the baby boomers born in the US between 1946 and 1964 resulted in significant wealth creation in the United States.

When you increase the labor force and productivity you usually produce more.

While family planning with contraception or abortion may reduce government spending, it reduces the labor supply and results in less growth.

If you really want to cut state, county, city costs as well as taxes, stop paying for illegal immigrants that are crowding our schools, hospitals, jails, prisons, roads and send them all home to their country of origin.

Build a triple fence across the entire border with Mexico to slow if not stop further illegal immigration.

Start right now.

This would be a two-fer in that it would also cut unemployment rates when those employing illegal immigrants must replace them with unemployed American Citizens.

I dare the elites of both political parties to propose this.

The elites do not give a damn about unemployed Americans.

Every day I pass construction sites that have anywhere between 50% to 75% illegal immigrants employed as construction workers.

All of these jobs used to be done by American citizens including blacks, hispanics and whites.

Wakeup America!

You are being sold down the river by the likes of the above.

I vote evil for her.

The drug wars in Mexico are coming north.

Build the damn fence or face a second American Revolution.

The American people’s patience is running out.

Time to face realitly.

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More universal health care art from the kids Pelosi wants to “plan” out of existence

By Michelle Malkin

“…mentioned the universal health care propaganda kiddie art contest in my post earlier today on S-CHIP. They really deserve stand-alone attention — especially when juxtaposed with Nancy Pelosi’s view of these same kiddie human shields as burdens on the economy who need to be, um, preempted with tax-subsidized contraceptive and family planning services. …”

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/26/more-universal-health-care-art-from-the-kids-pelosi-wants-to-plan-out-of-existence/

Baby Boomer

“Baby boomer is a term used to describe a person who was born during the demographic Post-World War II baby boom. Many analysts now believe that two distinct cultural generations were born during this baby boom; the older generation is often called the Baby Boom Generation and the younger generation is often called Generation Jones.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} The term “baby boomer” is sometimes used in a cultural context, and sometimes used to describe someone who was born during the post-WWII baby boom. Therefore, it is impossible to achieve broad consensus of a precise definition, even within a given territory. Different groups, organizations, individuals, and scholars may have widely varying opinions on what constitutes a baby boomer, both technically and culturally. Ascribing universal attributes to a broad generation is difficult, and some observers believe that it is inherently impossible. Nonetheless, many people have attempted to determine the broad cultural similarities and historical impact of the generation, and thus the term has gained widespread popular usage.

In general, baby boomers are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values; however, many commentators have disputed the extent of that rejection, noting the widespread continuity of values with older and younger generations. In Europe and North America boomers are widely associated with privilege, as many grew up in a time of affluence.^[7] As a group, they were the healthiest, and wealthiest generation to that time, and amongst the first to grow up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time.^[8]

One of the unique features of Boomers was that they tended to think of themselves as a special generation, very different from those that had come before. In the 1960s, as the relatively large numbers of young people became teenagers and young adults, they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort, and the change they were bringing about.^[9] This rhetoric had an important impact in the self perceptions of the boomers, as well as their tendency to define the world in terms of generations, which was a relatively new phenomenon.

The baby boom has been described variously as a “shockwave”^[7] and as “the pig in the python.”^[8] By the sheer force of its numbers, the boomers were a demographic bulge which remodeled society as it passed through it. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer

 

“Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Before being elected Speaker in the 110th Congress, she was the House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007, holding the post during the 108th, and 109th Congresses.

Since 1987, she has represented the 8th Congressional District of California, which consists of four-fifths of the City and County of San Francisco. The district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosi’s first three terms in the House.

With her election as Speaker, she is the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. She is also the first Italian-American and first Californian to serve as Speaker. She is the second Speaker from a state west of the Rocky Mountains, with the first being Washington’s Tom Foley, who was the last Democrat to hold the post before Pelosi. As Speaker of the House, Pelosi ranks second in the line of presidential succession, following Vice President Joe Biden, which makes her the highest-ranking female politician in United States history. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

 

Family Planning

“Family planning is people planning when to have children,^[1] and the use of birth control^[2][3] and other techniques to implement such plans. Other techniques commonly used include sexuality education^[4][3], prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections^[3], preconceptional counseling^[3] and management, and infertility management^[2].

Family planning is sometimes used as a synonym for the use of birth control, though it often includes more.

It is most usually applied to a female-male couple who wish to limit the number of children they have and/or to control the timing of pregnancy (also known as spacing children).

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_planning

 

‘This Week’ Transcript: Nancy Pelosi

Sunday Exclusive: House Speaker on ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos’

Jan. 25, 2009

“…STEPHANOPOULOS: We also heard from Congressman Boehner coming out of the meeting today that again a lot of that spending doesn’t even meet the same test you just talked about right now.

Boehner : we have to find a package that is the right size

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.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy. Food stamps, unemployment insurance, some of the initiatives you just mentioned. what the economists have told us from right to left. There is more bang for the buck, a term they use, by investing in food stamps and in unemployment insurance than in any tax cut  …”

 

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=6725512&page=1

 

 

Joint Operating Environment (JOE 2008)

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Mexico, U.S. step up drug-war cooperation

A top operative of Mexico’s infamous Sinaloa cartel was arrested Monday.

“…The growing violence in Mexico is largely attributed to battles between the major drug groups operating in Mexico, including the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels, and the fracturing that has taken place as leaders are arrested and factions have vied to assert control over lucrative smuggling routes.

Violence has even spilled over to the US. This weekend, a US Border Patrol agent was killed by a suspected drug smuggler when he tried to stop their fleeing Hummer.

The US has hailed the Calderón administration’s efforts. In response to the arrest of the alleged Sinaloa cartel leader, Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, US Ambassador Tony Garza said in a statement: “When Mexico takes dangerous criminals like Beltrán Leyva and his crew off the streets, the people of the United States also benefit.”

US Attorney General Mukasey pledged to help stop the flow of US guns into Mexico, which has long been blamed for the spectacular gun wars that often break out across this country.

He said US authorities are giving their Mexican counterparts more access to electronic databases to help trace weapons and plan to introduce a Spanish edition of the database soon.

Not all observers welcome a heavy hand from the north. Mr. Tirado says that cooperation is crucial, but worries that Mexico is reacting to what the US wants. “If you do not have a bilateral perspective, and are only following the north, you are not taking an integral approach,” he says.

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0123/p07s03-woam.html

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