After centuries of critical thinking and testing, Western economists are still struggling to agree on the best way to minimize the effects of an economic contraction. Is it the supply-side approach? Or maybe it’s applying Keynesian principles? Fear not oh people of these great United States, for Nancy Pelosi has uncovered the secret that has been missed by the greatest minds known to man! The answer you ask? Birth control funding, of course.
Birth control funding? The answer to our recession? Yes, that is the very question going through the minds of rational thinkers everywhere. Dr. Roy Cordato, Vice President of Research at the John Locke Foundation writes in the JLF Locker Room that Nancy Pelosi wants to use federal revenues for birth control and “family planning” practices. She argues it would stimulate the economy by saving the states money they would otherwise spend on social services. I am seriously trying to wrap my head around this insane logic, but with little success. Is her message simply that babies are a potential burden to society and that we, as a society, would be better off if those babies were aborted?
The explanation to Pelosi’s thinking is best explained by Dr. Cordato himself. Here is his full post:
“Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that federal revenues spent on birth control and family planning will help save states money on social services and therefore should be considered economic stimulus. Of course what she is more than suggesting is that procreation among poor people is a burden to society and therefore needs to be stifled by the Feds. This is completely consistent with the views of those who were the pioneers of the progressive movement during the early part of the 20th Century. Most of Pelosi’s intellectual forefathers and mothers were ardent advocates of eugenics, a philosophy based on pseudo science, which suggested that population growth among the lower classes needed to be controlled because they were a social burden. For example, economist John Maynard Keynes, father of “stimulus package economics” was on the board of the British Eugenics Society and Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was an outspoken believer and advocate of Eugenics who saw her organization as a tool of accomplishing her goals in this area.” http://www.johnlocke.org/lockerroom/lockerroom.html?id=18703
Can you believe the nerve of these liberals? These extreme liberal democrats are using the nation’s economic troubles in order to push their extreme, vile agenda onto the public. The Speaker of the House of Representatives actually condones the use of federal tax dollars to fund “family planning” a.k.a abortion practices in the U.S. This is absolutely treacherous!
Ms. Pelosi does not concern herself with the fact that there are a huge percentage of Americans that are against abortion and believe it to be morally wrong? Forcing pro-life individuals to pay for abortions or other questionable birth control practices via their tax contributions would be a severe case of taxation without representation.