Nancy Pelosi Speaks About STDs

January 29. 2009

This is a follow up to yesterday's article Stimulus Has $335 Million For STD Prevention. Today, House Speaker and liberal Nancy Pelosi took to the airwaves to talk about STDs and her desire to spend $335,000,000 in taxpayer money on its prevention. She tried to sell this point to the public today.

Yesterday, I suggested a cheaper alternative (PSAs and a website), to clear the way for the proposed stimulus funds to be used for what was originally touted – job creation. $335,000,000 is an astronomical figure to spend on STD prevention (if the CDC quarantined promiscuous Paris Hilton the public wouldn’t have to worry about such things).

Seriously, these things will only be as complicated as you make them. The government needs to be practical. If you do the math (here’s hoping I did it correctly):

You could employ roughly 27,500 people at $12,000 per year for that figure ($330,000,000).

You could employ roughly 22,100 people at $15,000 per year for that figure ($331,500,000).

You could employ roughly 16,500 people at $20,000 per year for that figure ($330,000,000).