Orrin Hatch’s $50 Million Sex Boondoggle

2:35 am EST December 27th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments

Talk about pork

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) won inclusion of an amendment in the Senate Finance Committee bill that would provide $50 million to states to use for abstinence programs, and the funding survived the version of the legislation that emerged from Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.)

Abstinence only programs don’t work. They don’t help stopping teen pregnancy, nor do they help to lower the amount of abortions. All they do is fund nonsense and hurt kids.

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9 Responses to “Orrin Hatch’s $50 Million Sex Boondoggle”

  1. jr says:
    December 27, 2009 at 6:11 am

    Orrin’s a 75 year old panty sniffer

  2. Rheinhard says:
    December 27, 2009 at 11:07 am

    What Atrios said.

    In 2009 we have a movement of people who think it’s important that people don’t have sex until they’re married, believe it is possible to achieve this by teaching it in public schools, and think federal dollars should be allocated towards achieving this goal despite the fact that it obviously doesn’t fucking work.

    This has been another edition of “What Atrios said.”

  3. Burn says:
    December 27, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    Abstinence programs work, just ask Bristol Palin. I am so sure her mother sat her down at the age of 14 and explained human sexuality to her in a clear, concise manner.

  4. SaveFarris says:
    December 27, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    Neither does “health care reform”, as evidenced Massachusetts, Maine, Spain, Great Britain, and everywhere else.

    But it only costs $1.5 trillion. So it’s Hatch that’s the problem.

  5. locus says:
    December 27, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    Whatever the final costs and benefits of health care reform will be, they will definitely be +$50M due to Hatch’s hand. On his insistence alone, we’ve added unnecessary funding to support programs that don’t work.

    If that’s not Hatch being part of the fucking problem, I don’t know what is.

    BTW, Farris, both Spain and Great Britain have health care systems that provide better outcomes for less money. For some reason, you have a recurring problem with that.

  6. SpiderJ says:
    December 27, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    Which is why citizens of Spain, Britain, and Canada, et al, have been protesting in the streets to please adopt a health-care-for-profit model like the United States currently uses.

    Oh, sorry, I had my glasses set on Bizarro World.

  7. jrfunkenstein says:
    December 28, 2009 at 11:47 am

    ‘Neither does “health care reform”, as evidenced Massachusetts, Maine, Spain, Great Britain, and everywhere else.’

    That’s right; it’s not working in Afghanistan*, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq*, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the United Kingdom

    *Universal health coverage provided by United States war funding

    Who do these countries think they’re fooling?

  8. Constructive Feedback says:
    December 29, 2009 at 7:22 am

    Mr Willis:

    Can you tell me what sex education programs are in place in Baltimore and Washington DC which now have the highest HIV infection rates in the nation?
    A disproportionate number of Africa-American people are being harmed by what ever EDUCATION program that is taking place.

    I assure you that in these Progressive dominated cities it is NOT “Abstinence Only” education.

    “Wrap It Up” has far more traction.

    I will await your article inspecting the failure of these education programs.

  9. Mike says:
    December 30, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    Anal, oral, or any sex not resulting in pregnancy is considered
    abstinence.

    The average kid can figure that out, maybe Orrin Hatch can too.

    Biology beats psychology every time.