The Obama-Reid-Pelosi debt bill has a lot of interesting spending items in it, and more are being discovered by the day. Take page 153 for example. That’s where you’ll find this gem. Out of $3 billion allocated for ‘prevention and wellness programs’ there’s an earmark specifically for combating STDs:
$335,000,000 shall be used as an additional amount to carry out domestic HIV/ AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually-transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis prevention programs
There are good reasons to oppose this, of course. It doesn’t belong in a ‘stimulus’ bill. It ought to make clear that abstinence is the only sure-fire way to prevent such transmission (at least in most cases). It’s not a proper role of the federal government.
But there’s another reason to oppose it. Look how the CDC has spent such money in the past:
- A transgender beauty pageant in San Francisco that advertised available HIV testing.
- Funded an event, also put on by the Stop AIDS Project, called “Got Love? – Flirt/Date/Score” that taught participants how “to flirt with greater finesse.”
- Funded events called “Booty Call” and “Great Sex” put on by an organization that received $698,000 in government funds.
It’s all in the name of public health. Come up with a program and you might get a grant.
Jeff Emanuel
Dan Spencer
Neil Stevens
Caleb Howe
Daniel Horowitz
Lori Ziganto
Moe Lane
If one considered
woodsman (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 2:39PM EDT (link)anything from the Obama-Reid-Pelosi triumvirate as a socially transmitted disease and government funding could be sought to fight it, then the debt incurred might be considered worthwhile to eradicate this plague on our country.
They should just pay people to have sex instead
Finrod (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 2:47PM EDT (link)Cut out the middle man! I’m sure lots of people would sign up for this job.
PETA and the ASPCA are pure evil. See here and here.
And my abstinence group
MelZ (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 2:48PM EDT (link)lost all federal/state funding, even though we worked with middle school students on:
decision making
peer pressure
bullies
drugs
alcohol
sex
etc…..
But money is available for transgender beauty pageants!
Fab-u-lusss
MelZ
Vote for dems = vote for sex party?
ColbyS Tuesday, January 27th at 3:11PM EDT (link)How can we possibly compete with this?
I just don't know...
Amy Miller (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 3:24PM EDT (link)…I mean, I could write this stuff.
What did they do? Get drunk and watch “Rent”? I’m pretty sure events involving ANY juxtaposition of the words “booty” “call” “score” and “flirt” will NOT encourage people to be careful about checking their partners for gonorrhea.
“Stimulus” bill, indeed.
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I guess we know what this bill is stimulating
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 4:35PM EDT (link)and it’s not the economy.
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I am a moby and this is my twitter http://twitter.com/Sethdholt Tuesday, January 27th at 4:44PM EDT (link)I’m against this sort of spending in a stimulus bill as well, but saying that abstinence is the “only way” and therefore we shouldn’t spend money on prevention programs is like saying the only way to keep people from saying something ignorant is to keep your mouth shut and therefore we shouldn’t spend money on education.
However, I guess Faughnan should have just kept his mouth shut before he made that point.