Breaking news: Family planning stripped from stimulus bill

[olivetree]

The Medicaid Family Planning State Option is a provision that would provide health care coverage for 2.3 million low-income women while generating savings for states and the federal government. Now, after misinformation was spread by opponents, it's been cut from the economic stimulus bill. Call the White House comment line now at 202-456-2111 and

Comments

[fightguy]

Oddly, I find I'm not concerned at this being removed from the stimulus bill. I think it's important enough that it deserves its own legislation.

[olivetree]

if i thought that's where they'd be heading, i'd let it go, but...

well, fingers crossed.

[ronsonbeck]

We had a letter to the editor this week in which a woman ranted that she didn't want her tax money going toward a program she found morally objectionable. Why, she asked, should my taxes go toward something I don't agree with? They shouldn't!

I agree, and I'd like back all of my tax money that went to the war, legislators' exorbitant salaries and pensions, abstinence-only sex education programs, Dick Cheney's man-sized safe...oh, hell anything from the last eight years. Just give me my money back.

I'm still amazed how few people grasp the concept that as Americans we tacitly agree to live our lives under a social contract that says, basically, our taxes aren't always going to go EXACTLY where we want them or for anything we're ever going to need, but you know what? Someone else's taxes are supporting stuff that we need and use that they don't.

C'mon, Obama, whip this sucker into shape.

[olivetree]

O.o

Can I hit her? Just once?