That is what the liberal leadership in Washington seems to think. This past Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, expressed this sentiment on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos…

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those – one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.

As I watched this, I was reminded of the fictional Baron Bomburst, dictatorial ruler of the small country Vulgaria in the classic children’s movie  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. As you may remember, the childish Baron Bomburst and his selfish wife despise children. They actually employ the Child Catcher to collect and exterminate children. You may remember one of his memorable quotes, “There are children here somewhere. I can smell them.”

Now, I am not calling Speaker Pelosi a modern child catcher. But her statements seem to be opposed to her life (mother of 5 and grandmother of 6) and her faith (she is a professing Roman Catholic). I wonder how it is she can confess her commitment to her own children, recite the Apostles’ Creed, and make such troubling proclamations.

So, children are the culprit. They are responsible for the state of the financial institutions, not greed. Children are the responsible for the crash of GM, not mismanagement. And they are responsible for the bear market, not the declining population. Someone should tell that to Japan (where couples are now actively encouraged to have and raise children because of the devistation the falling birth rate has had on their economy).

Thus, the stimulus package is really a sterilization package.

Well, at least lawmakers have the forsight to include $600 million earmarked to convert homes to digital television. I suppose that will also help reduce births, especially for the crowd who does not know the answer to the question, “Don’t you know what causes that?” They will have something more interesting to do than be fruitful and multiply.

I wonder who Pelosi thinks will pay the growing tax bill. I think I know.

HT – JP