{"id":192108,"date":"2009-05-10T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/10\/elections-have-consequences-who-hoo\/"},"modified":"2009-05-10T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T04:06:00","slug":"elections-have-consequences-who-hoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/10\/elections-have-consequences-who-hoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections Have Consequences: Who Hoo!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s new budget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amplifyyourvoice.org\/u\/AFY_Joe\/2009\/5\/7\/Obamas-new-budget-ELIMINATES-abstinenceonly-funding\">eliminates abstinence-only funding and a kick back program to churches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/omb\/budget\/fy2010\/assets\/hhs.pdf\">Page 491<\/a> of the budget (PDF):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The 2010 Budget proposes a new Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative to support community-based and faith-based efforts to reduce teen pregnancy using evidence-based and promising models. In addition, a new Strengthening Communities Fund will help build the capacity of non-profit organizations and State, Local and Tribal entities to better serve low-income and disadvantaged populations. This Budget also proposes funding for (1) a new child welfare initiative, and (2) a human services case management system for Federally-declared disasters. This Budget eliminates funding for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" ><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Community-Based Abstinence Education, the mandatory Title V Abstinence Education program, the Compassion Capital Fund<\/span><\/span>, and Rural Community Facilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The items in bold are two abstinence only education programs, aka the Bristol Palin teen parent plan, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acf.hhs.gov\/programs\/ocs\/ccf\/\">Compassion Capital Fund<\/a> is a slush fund for churches set up by Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Wicked cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s new budget eliminates abstinence-only funding and a kick back program to churches. From Page 491 of the budget (PDF): The 2010 Budget proposes a new Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative to support community-based and faith-based efforts to reduce teen pregnancy using evidence-based and promising models. In addition, a new Strengthening Communities Fund will help &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1021,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-religion","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}