Truth and life had a very bad week.
It's amazing how we can blame life for so many of the problems created by taxation and intrusive state governments.
Let's start with "truth".
Speaker Pelosi took the budget debate to a new level:
""Well, the family planning services reduce cost.
They reduce cost.
The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs.
One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
Of course, this is nonsense.
First of all, some states are in trouble and others are not.
It has nothing to do with birth rates, birth control or anything like that.
Texas is doing fine. California isn't!
Believe it or not, we do not have a national recession.
The states in trouble have a couple of things in common: very high taxes and labor costs related to union influence!
Can you say Michigan?
The DC Examiner has a wonderful editorial about states and taxes.
It explains why no one in their right mind wants to live or open a business in Rhode Island, Ohio, California, New York, and New Jersey and now Maryland:
"The Tax Foundation points out that states with the best overall tax systems attract new businesses and generate jobs much faster than states with more confiscatory policies.
Decades of empirical research prove that economic growth in high-tax states consistently lags behind states with lower tax burdens.
The 10 states with the lowest taxes also attracted almost 10 percent more new residents during the last decade than their high-tax counterparts.
Just last year, 144,000 people fled from California’s punishing taxes, the highest state-to-state migration in the U.S.
The ramifications of losing revenue-producing businesses and highly-skilled workers to lower-tax states should by now be apparent even to big-spending governors like Maryland’s Martin O’Malley and California’s Arnold Schwarzenegger - long-term economic decline." (When state taxes rise, businesses and residents flee)
The answer is lower taxes not birth control.
Cut taxes and the job creators will come!
The other issue is the so called "Mexico City policy". (It's named after a conference that took place in Mexico City)
Why did Pres Obama rescind the ban? It was a payoff to the feminists who think that abortion is the Magna Carta of feminism!
Phyllis Schlafly has a good post on the relationship between leftist feminists and Pres. Obama. To say the least, leftist feminists have a lot invested in the Obama presidency, from abortion to same sex marriage.
Overall, it was a very bad week for truth and babies in the womb!
The US taxpayer will now pay for abortions overseas. I guess that's hope and change for everybody except unborn babies.
P.S. Here is a contrast. Reagan, Bush and Bush banned funding abortions with taxpayer dollars. Clinton and Obama immediately rescinded the ban!
Question: Who is the life party? Who is the abortion party?
