Why did Sarah Palin used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program helping teen mothers in need?

Question

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_slashed_funding_to_help.html?hpid=artslot

Answer 1

let me think there for a second. Extrem right anti-liberty politician oh and shes a hypocrite.  

Answer 2

The abstinence program isn't working in Alaska?

Weird.

Answer 3

Good God!

This just keeps getting better and better in a worse and worse way.

Excerpt:

Earlier today the Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, opposed funding to prevent teen pregnancies, a position that Palin also took as governor. "The explicit s*x-ed programs will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates.

Reporters asked McCain in November 2007 whether he supported grants for s*x education in the United States, whether such programs should include directions for using contraceptives and whether he supports President Bush's policy of promoting abstinence.

"Ahhh, I think I support the president's policy," McCain said.

Thanks, Sarah. Thanks, John. Your "abstinence stance" is really paying off... for the Democrats, isn't it?

Yeesh!

Answer 4

Because she knows as well as I do that the money could be better spent giving the girls female circumcision that would assure them of not wanting s*x ever.

Answer 5

Its been pointed out several times that Alaska is not a largly populated state..can you provide some statistics as to the number of teen pragnancies? 5 million dollars seems like a lot of money for this program that had funding cut.

Answer 6

in denial....or she didn't know that she was going to be a grand-mother.

Answer 7

She looks out for own interests not her children's

Worst than Mondale/Ferraro = McCain/Palin

Answer 8

The line item shown vetoed was for an expansion of the library. Now, I'm all for libraries, but perhaps Palin needed to put that money to use elsewhere.  No one has an unlimited budget.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Because Republicans love babies... until they're born.

Answer 11

here are the facts for all who are interested

the house was not shut down

the line item in question was for the Covenant House Alaska which is the parent orginization for Passage House which is the center for the teen mothers

There was no funding exclusively earmarked for pregnant teens.

funding was not "slashed". the alaskan state budget had an allocation of 5 million dollars to go to Covenant House. Pailin cut this to 3.9million. In 2007 they only received 1.3million from the state and in 2006 only 1.2million.

in reality Palin gave them more this year than in the previous 2 years combined! there was no attack on pregnant teens and the washington post got this one wrong

Answer 12

Maybe Gov Palin wants the teen moms to take responsibility for their actions and not put it off on the government and society. Things like her pregnant daughter is doing. Admit she made a mistake. Stay in school and graduate so she can better care for her child. Don't get an abortion to just make it all go away. Marry the child's father so that the two of them together can  raise the baby.

I know responsibility is a dirty word to libs but get over it.

Answer 13

I'm sure she'd do it again. She probably thinks that because she has the means to help her daughter, every parent should.  

Answer 14

Perhaps she thinks the fathers should have that responsibility. They do have laws to make dead beat dads be responsible as well as the moms.

Answer 15

Did you LOOK at the form in the link? This form is where she cut the funding from a library expansion.

Just think, she was trying to do what a lot of people can't do-live on a budget!

Answer 16

Wow, i guess karma bit her in the butt huh?

and...i agree with Sophie