Common sense seems to be in short supply when it comes to politics....... - Page 1

Common sense seems to be in short supply in Congress. Why would they want to destroy a government program that is one of the most successful programs in the past 45 years (evidenced based and researched by both parties)? Regardless of whether you are for choice or against choice, this program works, especially in preventing abortion. It has prevented 1 million unintended pregnancies last year of which 345,000 would likely have ended in abortion. It saves the lives of women who usually die of cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancer because of the early detection.

Title X is the federal family planning grant that funds birth control and preventative health services such as pre-/post-natal care; infant care; sex education that is evidenced based and extremely successful in preventing pregnancies and STDs; parenting classes that are evidenced based; budgeting and nutrition classes; screenings for cancer such as breast, cervical, uterine ovarian, to name a few; health screen gins for cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension; STD/STI screening, treatment, and education; HIV/AIDs screening, treatment, education; and the list goes on.

Title X funding is approximately $300 million yet saves U.S.. tax payers $4 BILLION in return. Think of this, for every $1 spent on Title X, the U.S. tax payer saves $3.75 in Medicaid birth related costs. House Republican Denny Rehlberg (R-Mont) calls this program a "wasteful and unnecessary program". Majority of Republican Congress agrees with him. That is ridiculous when the program is one of the most successful and money saving government programs out there........

 

Common sense? You mean any sense don't you?

It blows my mind that the anti-choicers are also against birth control and programs that help with family planning such as Title X.  They also seem to be against any programs that help the infant after birth and the (usually) single mother.  They are against equal pay, protection from lay off if taking family leave, education programs, heck Michigan Gov Snyder just stopped funding programs that give low income children meals before school.  How anti-child is that?

Well why should they care. They are rich their kids and grand kids aren't going to suffer. I never could understand those against birth control. They would rather you have no sex. The only reason to have sex in their eyes is procreation.

Mind hunt...your statements about those who are pro-life are stereotypes and grossly exaggerated.

Mind Hunt, please cite your source.

I am a news junkie and am up on most things but have never heard of this and furthermore, what happened to personal responsibility?

I am tired of having to support people who pump out kid after kid for more Uncle Sugar money. If they can't support their own family don't have more kids. There is a simple solution keep your legs closed. An aspirin will do it; hold it between your knees tightly enough that you don't drop it. Somewhat tongue in cheek but hey!

We have no need for all these different money sucking programs anymore since we have the wildly successful (snort) Obamacare where everyone has health care. Except the ones who don't!

I would applaud that Michigan governor who is responsibly taking care of his taxpayers and ending programs like that. Baby mama and maybe the baby daddy can use the Snap card for real good choices like drugs and booze since they know we will feed their kids. We even have programs that feed the kids a noon meal and send meals home for the weekend as well. This has to end. Not my responsibility to take care of other kids.

I guess I would allow it for a small amount of time if someone loses their job and needs a little bit of help to get training and back on their feet but not for more than a set amount of time. Years is not acceptable and certainly multi-generational is definitely not acceptable either.

Sure do agree  If you can't take care of them don't have them    Also agree that there are times when help is needed for a short period but again not for the way it is set up now.

Also, need to add all these programs who serve pretty much the same function. This Title X as well as Planned Parenthood and they presumably get boatloads of taxpayer's money. Not only these two but doesn't O-care cover reproductive care also? How many reproductive programs do we need?

All these superfluous programs get their own funding and they receive massive amounts of taxpayer money. And they all ask for additional employees plus need more funding every year.

How many of us have heard of government employees sitting and watching porn all day? That is because there are so many of them they have no work to do. And when they get caught we can't get rid of them since they are a government employee.

Could all of you watch porn all day at the office and not get fired?

How do all you hardworking taxpayers like sending more and more money every year to a government that just keeps getting money out of your pocket and does nothing but fritter it away on worthless programs?

"How do all you hardworking taxpayers like sending more and more money every year to a government that just keeps getting money out of your pocket and does nothing but fritter it away on worthless programs?"

 

Kinda like the war on drugs? Kinda like the trickle down economy? Kinda like home land security? Kinda like the NSA? Kinda like farm subsidies? Kinda like corporate welfare? Kinda like building more prisions to hold all these people from the war on drugs? Funny how when a person supports something they have no problem with bigger government. How does tax exempt religion strike you?

 

SMH.

War on drugs. How is that working for you?

Trickle down economy. Seems like the reverse is true. All the money is trickling up from we the taxpayers to the rat hole of the gov't.

Homeland security. Surely you jest; we are more insecure than we have ever been. TSA has been tested and they failed to find something like 97% of weapons people were carrying.

NSA. Hey, I bet they have all of Hil-Liar- y's emails so we can tell how much of our classified material is gone to all our adversaries.

Farm subsidies. I am in farm country here and most of the farmers around here buy a new truck every year so they don't need subsidies. I have no problem shutting down the farm program.

Corporate welfare. I believe Congress approved letting taxpayers fund low interest loans to multi billion $$$ corporations before they went on their August break. ( That needs to stop as well, they barely put in a 3 day week as it is). The August break was put in effect when they had no air conditioners and it was so insufferably hot in the Capital buildings that they closed during August.

Building more prisons to hold war on drugs people. I have mixed feelings on this First, they did break a law. However, most have been low level offenders so might be best to get community service and do something like build low income housing, thus learning a trade. Save the prison cells for hardened criminals.

Support for bigger government. I support very few programs that this government has started. Just like Hank Johnson's Guam comment. Have you seen that one? Go to youtube and check it out. That is an example of just how brilliant our people vote when this doofus keeps getting re elected. This entire country is in danger of toppling over due to the bloated, incompetent government.

Tax exempt religion. Usually the most expensive and ostentatious building in a city is a house of worship. They should be declared non tax exempt and have to pay just as we do.

This country is broke, we have no money. Well over 18 trillion in debt and half of that is attributed to the current Spender in Chief.
Think about that, folks. Cash for Clunkers, Solyndra, Stimulus program. Did you know part of the Stimulus program was supposed to, among other things, fix the infrastructure. Did that get fixed? No, a few projects did but they spent millions of dollars on the signs saying the Stimulus program is fixing this part of your road!

I am old so it doesn't matter so much for me but my son and his children to be and their grandchildren will be forced to pay all these debts that are accumulating.