Clinton's move to the middle
Viewed more favorably than when elected senator, Hillary etches a common-ground persona ahead of at least one future campaign
BY KEN FIREMAN
WASHINGTON BUREAU
March 27, 2005
WASHINGTON - It was budget week, and Democrats and Republicans were careening toward a series of bruising party-line votes. But Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted to talk about something in short supply: common ground.
The New York Democrat was proposing spending $100 million to curb unwanted pregnancies, especially among teenagers, through improved family planning programs.
When are these fools going to realize that they're treating the symptom, not the disease?! Forget about unwanted teenage pregnancies--let's get rid of unwanted teenagers!
When are these fools going to realize that they're treating the symptom, not the disease?! Forget about unwanted teenage pregnancies--let's get rid of unwanted teenagers!
But they're not treating the "symptom" they're simply masking it WITH MY MONEY.
Well, you'll pay for the cops, the prison and the guards and the food and the medicine and......
A lot of inmates are from unwanted - unraised kids. That's just the facts.
Pay a little for prevention or a lot more for the "Prison Cure."
Either way society pays out the $$$$. Its unavoidable and the ostrich strategy doesn't work - except for ostriches.
We already do--now we're to paying even more? You can't bribe people not to get knocked up or break the law. It has never worked and never will. Entitlement only worsens the matter because then people take less care of themselves. Why should they solve their personal problems personally--the government will do it for us!
Hillary has your morton on her mind...
