President Barack Obama (courtesy of Reuters)

According to Drudge Report, based on documents released regarding President Obama's stimulus plan, that passed in the House, an item pushed by House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, designates $335,000,000 for sex education and STD prevention. I think that is wasteful spending. At $335,000,000 it would be cheaper to cure the STDs.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

It would cost less money to create a website on preventing STDs and compel networks to air the spot for free as a PSA, than spend such a large sum on that endeavor, when the nation is gripped by financial crisis. Do you know how many jobs come to mind that could be created with $335,000,000.  

When you put items like that in bills, it will make Republicans in Congress recoil, as in the past, such budgetary bits went to "vulgar" and crassly titled seminars on sex.

$335,000,000 FOR STD PREVENTION IN ECONOMIC STIMULUS BILL

Democrats may have eliminated provisions on birth control and sod for the National Mall in the "job stimulus" -- but buried on page 147 of the bill is stimulation for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases!

The House Democrats' bill includes $335 million for sexually transmitted disease education and prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

In the past, the CDC has used STD education funding for programs that many Members of Congress find objectionable and arguably unrelated to a mission of economic stimulus [such as funding events called 'Booty Call' and 'Great Sex' put on by an organization that received $698,000 in government funds.]

"Whether this funding has merit is not the question; the point is it has no business in an economic plan supposedly focused on job creation," says a stimulated Hill source.

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