Is there a bigger waste of tax money than abstinence education?

[undeterred]

First of all it doesn't work.

Second of all, its imposing values that are from one faction of society on everyone.

Third, with all the things teenagers need to learn about sex, why on earth should they be taught "don't do it"?

:wtf:

After weeks of railing against the price tag of health-care reform, Senate Republicans managed to bond over pumping up the budget for one aspect of health-care reform yesterday: abstinence-only education. Proposed by Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the amendment reinstates $50 million in funding for abstinence-only education that President Obama had previously removed in his budget proposal earlier this year. Committee Republicans were joined by Democrats Blanche Lincoln and Kent Conrad in voting up the measure, which passed 12-11.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/09/30/abstinence-only-education-is-back.aspx

[Odin2005]

1. Anyone who thinks they can convince teens to not have sex is an idiot!

[ezgoingrl]

13. +1

n/t

[Lucy Goosey]

26. No, it's easy! Just don't tell them about sex, and they won't do it!

Right? I mean, how can they do it if they don't know about it?




...right?




(I don't really need to use the "sarcasm" tag here do I? You all knew this was sarcastic, right?)

[Fresh_Start]

2. I nominate wars in afghanistan

as a bigger waste of money and life

[WCGreen]

4. Yep. my thoughts exactly....

[The Straight Story]

3. sex ed and religious/political/ideology /etc should be left to parents

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic for school :)

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Sure, the war on drugs.

[L0oniX]

6. Yes ...pot laws. n/t

[Jkid]

7. The biggest waste of tax money

The war in iraq.

[Cassandra]

8. The Star Wars program.

It's been going on longer.

[hunter]

9. You mean like 95% of our defense budget?

Or something smaller, like just the war in Iraq...

But yeah, kids are more likely to get in trouble with sex if they don't know anything about it. "Abstinence only" is worse than useless, it's actually harmful.

[mitchum]

10. Yes, the war on drugs

[JBoy]

11. Sarah Palin's newspaper subscription?

[livetohike]

12. No. How much money does it take to say, "Don't do it?"

The whole thing is ridiculous. Maybe Carrie Prejean will be the new spokesperson and she can tell everyone to save themselves for marriage.

[anonymous171]

14. Also it can be implemented alongside comprehensive sex ed.

Abstinence as a form of birth control, I mean.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. The War in Iraq has to be a good condidate

At least at its height.

Funds allotted to pay the salaries of Bush and Cheney get up there, too.

[MountainLaurel]

16. Marriage promotion efforts n/t

[virgogal]

17. Sure there is. DARE----an absolute waste of money and resources.

[stray cat]

18. YES -just because we do really stupid things like losing millions to fraud in Iraq

[TheKentuckian]

19. Probably not. Dumb wars at least cause money to flow around some.

[fujiyama]

20. I can't think of many

Although Congress giving itself a raise is one of the few things I can think of. Oh and giving Pakistan a few billion in aid. And continuing the war in Iraq.

Let's face it. Our government is very good at wasting money. Though, I'll ultimately agree that abstinence education is the stupidest fucking thing our government spends money on.

[Fumesucker]

21. It could be done for a few thousand dollars..

Give each teenage girl an aspirin tablet and tell her to hold it firmly between her knees. :evilgrin:

I would put the various wars on relatively equal footing, the war on teenage sex, the war on drugs, the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq, all colossal wastes of money.

[zbdent]

22. I'm wondering what the biggest proponent of it

is going to do with the money ... no-build another bridge to nowhere or buy 500 sets of new outfits ...

[Libertas1776]

23. The war in Afghanistan

the War on Drugs, etc. But abstinence is pretty high up there.

[Sebastian Doyle]

24. Orrin Hatch sincerely believes that GOD is constantly having sex with His multiple wives

Who the FUCK is he to talk about abstinence??

[Zywiec]

25. In a poll earlier this week, a majority of DU thought the age of consent

should be 18 years old.

If most people think kids shouldn't be having sex until they are 18, isn't someone teaching abstinence?

:shrug:

[budkin]

27. Too bad that shit won't be in the final bill

Sorry Orrin.