Let’s get rid of that wasteful Washington spending.
And I have a concrete suggestion that will save over $200 million in cold hard cash right away, plus billions of dollars in future healthcare and related economic costs!
Sound too good to be true?
Really, it’s not a gimmick. It’s very simple: We just need to zero out funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in the next budget cycle.
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President Obama is expected to release his first federal budget request, for FY 2010, at the end of February, and the pressure is on to eliminate ab-only funding in this next fiscal cycle.
And I have a concrete suggestion that will save over $200 million in cold hard cash right away, plus billions of dollars in future healthcare and related economic costs! We just need to zero out funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in the next budget cycle.
Comprehensive sex education represents a break with ineffective religeous commandments. Primitive society held that ‘boys will be boys’; women must be held to virtue; big families ensure cultural survival.
Blind obedience and ignorance kept things simple.
Before Healthcare, THIS should've been the primary start of healthcare reform.