WASHINGTON - 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?”
Hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives?
The Ohio congressman’s office explains. One proposal included in the stimulus package would expand Medicaid family planning services to all 50 states.
The proposal would enable people who don’t qualify for Medicaid to receive the family planning services, including contraceptives.
“Whether or not you think that is good public policy, it has nothing to do with an economic stimulus,” a spokesman for Boehner said.
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it is simple arithmatic….AVAILABLE DRY LAND ON EARTH IN SQUARE MILES ? calculate the number of sq ft required per person to grow food, flush toilets, furnish potable water, provide transportation, structures for living, structures for employment, structures for health care, clean air to breath, and many more human requirements for quality life…..wake up people we have NO CHOICE, we must control population growth….birth control is the only way out….contraceptives is the best way to fight abortion ! !
- Posted by rich roe[...] major critic of the proposal was House Minority Leader John Boehner (heh-heh, Boehner) of Ohio, who asked, “How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives? How does that [...]
- Posted by Family planning not part of jobs/stimulus bill « FreethoughtAnyone, who ever had to run a household or a business, knows to quit spending money when you are in financial trouble. Please don’t sell this country away with more debt!
- Posted by K. Thyerpeople who pontificate about abortion to elevate their political agenda have no credibility with me,they try to give the impression of a hip modern sp life style.it is not a case of a girl/women realizing “i am pregnant”and walking into planned parenthood and sitting and flushing the baby down the toilet,”thank you have a nice day”and walking out,and every thing forgotten,it is not as clinical as that. i have experienced the real drama that normally transpires in situations like this and there is a lot of heart rendering decisions to be made. in my early teens me and girl had a brief relationship which resulted in a pregnancy,abortion was an option but she delivered the baby and my parents brought the baby up as my younger brother.what a blessing he was to them.so liberals if you making comments off the top of your heads which is normally the case, put your hands over your mouths.let me listen to women who have had abortions and see if they say it is ok..
- Posted by brian leeBrian, better get your money back from whoever taught you to profile people. Way off, except for the New England part, but I think I gave you that little tid-bit.
- Posted by Eric HSo, my degree is in history not philosophy (minor in theology), and like many people with a history degree I don’t work in that field. I’m actually a self employed timber frame carpenter. My ordination is from The Universal Life Church and I got ordained online which is why I stated that I am non-practicing. Surprisingly it does make me just as qualified as some of the “ministers” in my area who run born again churches.
One of them down the road from me is run by a guy who was a vacuum cleaner salesman until he got “the call”. I suspect that “the call” was from his boss telling him he was laid off. I got ordained so I could perform a marriage ceremony for some friends. There is very little difference between my being ordained and you being a deacon, unless you went to seminary school.
Your attempt to pigeonhole me and in fact all who disagree with you is lame. It just doesn’t work as you are basing your thoughts on stereotypes and misconceptions.
I could just as easily work up a profile of you and based on the limited info I have about you I would be wrong as well. TC and I have discussed the fact that we have some views in common but on the issue of abortion you don’t get many fence sitters. Nobody wants to see more abortions take place. What we (the left and the right) seem to differ on is how to prevent them and the consequences of making them illegal. There also seems to be this idea from the right that if you make abortion illegal that they won’t happen, well a lot of things that are illegal happen every day. Making abortion illegal will just drive it underground and make it dangerous, exactly like it was before Roe vs. Wade. Have you ever seen pro-choice activists wearing the coat hanger necklace or pin? Do you know what it represents? Find out and tell me if that’s what you want.
One more thing about religion, any church that asks for donations or a tithe is a scam, so that’s just about all of them. Organized religion has caused more war, death and destruction than I can list here, from The Crusades right up to the present conflict in Gaza. Luckily we live in a country where freedom of religion also means freedom from religion.
Mr Boehner,
- Posted by Marlo SteinkePlease encourage the republicans NOT to support ANY stimulus of Obamas. They merely want another party to take partial blame for this not helping the economy. Those of us that pay attention, know this is about government control. As tax payers we do NOT want to support grassroot democrat organizations that are slowly squeezing republicans out of the scene for good. AND the federal support for abortions as “economic efficency” is demonic. PLEASE rally together and stand strong against them.
Thank you,
Marlo Steinke
Boehner is a complete moron and nneds to master the obvious. Contracption clinics provide jobs to nurses and medical assistants, and save 100 fold on schools, SCHIP, childcare, welfare and the environment. Contraception spending should be in the trillions, exceeding “defense,” schools, SCHIP, and stimulus combined and from every level of government.
- Posted by AlanCrime dropped in the 90’s because it was Roe+18.
Where is Boehner from anyway? under a rock?
8 babies born to ca lady,how many stem cells is that?pity planned parenthood did not get to the mother first,missed opportunity.abortion fees and by products etc.
- Posted by brian leetc.a rev who is ok with abortion is a liberal with avengence,cassock,ruffle and all.the species normally habitate the episcopalian forest of the west coast,but some times hibernate to the rain forests of new england.favorite tv program monty python,hobbies walking along main streets with members of the same species baying like donkeys.known to get nasty when confronted by two old ladies in their eighties.you have been profiled eric.
- Posted by brian leethe term rev,is that a title that is given with a philosophy degree?obviously the term can no longer be associated totally with christianity because comments i hear from a lot of revs,are consistently so for away from the what the average believer would expect.incidentally i am a deacon a title bestowed on me after an election by church members,there is the difference eric.
- Posted by brian lee