wherefore art thou, alan guttmacher?
I work with this guy who drives a complete piece of shit car. It breaks down at least once a week, spews foul smelling black smoke into the air, and actually caught fire the other day. Of course, this guy just keeps throwing money into it, seemingly with the hope that this will be the $200 that finally makes this death trap on wheels a viable mode of transportation.
Now, I'm in no position to criticize him--it's his money to waste however he sees fit, right? Then I read shit like this:
While slashing funding for local schools, food stamps and health care for veterans, President Bush’s FY 2006 budget would increase spending on abstinence-only-unless-married education programs by $39 million, bringing the total request for these programs to $206 million in federal funds.
See now, that's my money being wasted on a program that could only be considered successful if its stated purpose was to increase the number of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infection rates among teenagers.
And the result isn't throwing money at someone's jalopy, and hoping against all hope that the fucking thing runs. This is spending money on a program that can only put kids lives in danger. When the only discussion of contraception in a sex ed class revolves around failure rates, you give kids the impression that they might as well forego any protection, since it's bound to fail anyway. Every credible study has shown consistently that abstinence only education does nothing to delay the onset of sexual activity--but students who receive comprehensive sex ed programs report greater usage of birth control and condoms. Is it any wonder why the states that preach abstinence until marriage have the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the country? Compare that to places like Belgium or the Netherlands, where free contraception and comprehensive sex ed are the norm--as are lower teen pregnancy and abortion rates.
My co-worker called in to work today--his car won't start again, and he needs to get it to a mechanic. I wonder if some people will ever learn.
posted by annamaria @ 1:39 PM
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Sorry for "anonymity": just don't want to register anymore. In fact, I am Constantine Ivanov from New York. Hence, it is not anonymous.
Do you understand why you have almost no comments on your blogs? Just in a case you had no chance to think about it being extremely busy emanating your hatred to anything besides your own believes, I can advise you why: just because of the said above - you liberasts think (think?) that your so-called "mainstream" is pro-killing unborn babies, pro-pederasts, pro-permissiveness, pro-total-sexualization of the entire country, pro-drug-legalization, pro-robin-hoodism peaceniks (responsible for Millions murdered in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia to Rwanda just because of your "hedonism") herd.
The actual life, though, is quite different from your hippie-punk dreams. And so be it!
webmaster@PoemsAndReflectionsConstantineIvanov.com
This is to fix a typo:
Sorry for "anonymity": just don't want to register anymore. In fact, I am Constantine Ivanov from New York. Hence, it is not anonymous.
Do you understand why you have almost no comments on your blogs? Just in a case you had no chance to think about it being extremely busy emanating your hatred to anything besides your own beliefs, I can advise you why: just because of the said above - you liberasts think (think?) that your so-called "mainstream" is pro-killing unborn babies, pro-pederasts, pro-permissiveness, pro-total-sexualization of the entire country, pro-drug-legalization, pro-robin-hoodism peaceniks (responsible for Millions murdered in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia to Rwanda just because of your "hedonism") herd.
The actual life, though, is quite different from your hippie-punk dreams. And so be it!
webmaster@PoemsAndReflectionsConstantineIvanov.com
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