How Are Tax Funded Abortions And Condoms Going To Stimulate The Economy?

I mean, they might stimulate the love life of some rent-seeking layabouts who can’t be bothered to buy their own condoms, but as far as creating jobs?
Color me skeptical.

Washington, Jan 23 – Earlier this week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that the massive spending plan written by congressional Democrats isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – in particular, the vast majority of the spending in the plan won’t have an impact on our economy for years, at best. And just yesterday, the House Ways & Means Committee learned that no one seems to know how many jobs would actually be created by the trillion dollar spending plan, even though the legislation is slated to be on the House floor next week.
Now comes the latest revelation about the congressional Democrats’ “stimulus” plan: it includes taxpayer funding for contraceptives and the abortion industry. Specifically, a provision in the legislation clears the way for expanded federal funding of contraceptives through Medicaid for those who aren’t even poor. Here’s how:
A Clinton-era program allows states to seek a waiver to offer Medicaid “family planning” services – even for those who are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. If they seek the waiver, the federal government matches the state funding with $9 for every $1.
Yesterday, during consideration of the congressional Democrats’ spending bill by the House Energy & Commerce Committee, the panel eliminated the waiver requirement. The result? All 50 states will now offer Medicaid “family planning” services (including contraception) with the federal government offering the same $9 to $1 match (pages 231-240).

We can argue about whether or not it’s appropriate for the government to fund things like abortion and condoms and health care in general (I’m on the side of individual responsibility), but this $850 billion spending spree Obama and the Democrats want is being sold to the public under the guise of “economic stimulus.” If the goal of this spending is to stimulate the economy, shouldn’t someone have to explain how subsidized condoms and abortions are going to create jobs and prosperity?
Shouldn’t some reporter stand up and a press conference and ask Obama that question? “Mr. President, how is forcing tax-paying Americans to pay for expanded health entitlements – specifically condoms and abortions – going to help those same Americans be more prosperous?”
It’s a question without a good answer, so of course nobody is going to ask that of The One. But it does speak to the problem with the entire stimulus package: All government spending is a burden to the economy in that it takes money out of the economy to be spent. In order to spend $850 billion, over 5% of our GDP, on government make-work programs and tax subsidized condoms the government must first take $850 billion from the taxpayers. And that money is taken disproportionately from the individuals and businesses that create the most jobs and prosperity in this country.
Obama’s “stimulus” isn’t really a stimulus at all. It’s a spending spree of the sort that big government liberals love. The economic downturn is just the excuse.