Fat government, lean times
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Editor,
After recently reading a local news article, entitled “Family planning, tobacco education slated for cuts,” it occurred to me that, based on the figures given, this is costing $652,000,000 per year for Montana, to smoke and avoid pregnancy. How revealing.
To explore the mindset of the created government funded agencies, which grow by the thousands, and how they perpetuate each other’s existence, the article continued. “Tobacco services and family planning often overlap. For instance, a young expectant mother may be referred to MTUPP (from Lake County Family Planning) if she smokes, then… food bank…food stamps…mental health and other services.”
It brings to mind our education system, first with Head Start, public education (with school lunches), then continuation school for the student that isn’t going to graduate. Then a GED class, because they still didn’t graduate, followed by job training. All paid for by government funding; and for what? A government job? Folks. These institutions are staffed with a large percentage of personnel that have no experience in what it takes to produce a dollar bill and make over $6,000 more than the same job in the private sector. That’s right. And what’s the end product? Then there is the arrogance.
“These families are our families,” Public Health nurse Angie Vance said. Really? Public nurse, Sheri Clark agreed, asking “what other health care professional spends half an hour talking to a teen about birth control?” What? No health care professional ever talked that long with my wife, nor offered to adopt us after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
A possible solution to the lack of funding could be to legalize smoking, with a doctor’s prescription, and calling an unwanted pregnancy, an accident. Then, similar to the recently proposed accident response fee, the response to the unwanted pregnancy accident, under an hour without the use of tools, would be $500, $750 if a body had to be extracted from the accident vehicle (mother’s womb). Add $1,000 if over an hour.
A better solution may be to cut baby cut (government). Drill baby drill. Log baby log. Mill baby mill. Farm baby farm. Mine baby mine. Build baby build. Train baby “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6. In this way, our youth may be able to overcome the bad behavior and anti social tendencies. They will enjoy the blessings of responsibilities and prosperity, as our country has enjoyed up ‘til now.
Could they cease to rely on a very costly, seemingly benevolent government who would want to adopt them into their “family?” I believe so. In fact I believe it is a promise.
Easter Blessings.
Jim Sisler
Big Arm
