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 Obama cuts most federal funding of abstinence-only education 
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Post Obama cuts most federal funding of abstinence-only education
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... ex_ed.html

President Obama is putting his own ideological stamp on federal spending in his proposed 2010 budget by cutting cash for abstinence-only sex ed programs.

He's taken a scalpel to a pair of $100 million George W. Bush-era programs that exclusively preached abstinence. Obama is replacing them with $110 million for comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention.

"It's about time that evidence-based management - and sanity - return to family planning programs," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan).

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... F4tHdWS7&B


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Post Re: Obama cuts most federal funding of abstinence-only education
I liked this cut more before he added back in $110m in "comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention."


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Post Re: Obama cuts most federal funding of abstinence-only education
yeah he didnt actually cut spending at all.


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Post Re: Obama cuts most federal funding of abstinence-only education
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yeah he didnt actually cut spending at all.


seems like he actually raised it > -100+110 = + 10, yup he raised it.


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Post Re: Obama cuts most federal funding of abstinence-only education
Grill wrote:
Jim Halpert wrote:
yeah he didnt actually cut spending at all.


seems like he actually raised it > -100+110 = + 10, yup he raised it.


a pair of 100


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Post Re: Obama cuts most federal funding of abstinence-only education
snack wrote:
Grill wrote:
Jim Halpert wrote:
yeah he didnt actually cut spending at all.


seems like he actually raised it > -100+110 = + 10, yup he raised it.


a pair of 100


wow, lol as snack like others have nothing better to do so they read every word that I write.


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Post Re: Obama cuts most federal funding of abstinence-only education
Jim Halpert wrote:
yeah he didnt actually cut spending at all.


Overall, he cut spending by $17 billion, cutting or reducing 121 federal programs.

This particular spending is a drop in the bucket, but it wasn't about cutting spending per se. It was cutting the spending on a program that didn't work, that was built on the usual "today is opposite day" assertions of the religious nuts in the GOP.


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