Mikey-Micky-D wrote:

How about promoting abstinence and
marriage until you have a financial job
to support a kid?

You can promote it until purple pigs fly. It simply has not worked in
the past and will not work now. The threat of getting AIDS and dying
hasn't worked either.

Sex is natural and you aren't going to stop teens from having it unless
you can stop puberty.

This was meant to happen to us at this age. That
is why our bodies go thru changes and we have instinctive desires. It's
a hormonal thing.

I would have a "Young Women and
Teens" mobile healthcare unit which
would come to public housing and
other designated areas twice a week to
offer free pregnancy testing,
counselling, birth control shots, IUD's,
condoms and STD testing and
treatment.

Costs plenty of money.

Not a drop in the bucket compared to what it cost to raise a teen mother
with a child who will never be a productive member of society and only
draining it.

I would have free condom dispensing
machines placed next to the newspaper
vending machine at every McDonalds,
KFC, Taco Bell, Burger King and 7-11
stores across the US.

You are forgetting the cost of a guard to
stand and protect thievery of the
condoms.

Why would you steal FREE CONDOMS Michael?

I would give a $10 gift certificate for
every teen who came on time for her
monthly birth control shot which would
be redeemable at various local retail
clothing stores.

That would be into the $billions of dollars
annually. Plus, the embarrassment
factor of exchanging the gift certificate
at the local retail clothing store, in which
you (Public taxes) would have to pay
them for their exchange service.

I doubt it. I would count on corporate support from within the
community.

A tax deduction for them and remember, the businesses will
prosper in the long run if a teenager grows up and enters the work force
rather than having a baby and living on welfare because that is more
money that will be spent within the community as opposed to draining
from the community.

This program would dramatically
reduce the taxpayers cost of feeding
and clothing the unwanted children born
each year in the US.

Nope:

Cutting off welfare would do that then,

But the cycle continues.....

There is a greater chance of becoming a teen mother if their own mother
gave birth as a teen.

plus you ( the pres.) would be vied with
cruel and unusual punishment laws.

huh? eh?

1. Many in our culture will bring as many
babies into as the welfare state that the
state will provide them financially for.

I don't believe that.

I think that if they are offered better choices

with incentives and you make birth control easy and at their doorsteps,
then they will opt for it.

Of course there will always be some who
won't.

These children
are destined to a life of poverty and
crime in an endless cycle and usually
end up in jail which is also paid for
with taxes.

Blain the politicians and Hollywood who
want China ( And other countries) to
make our clothes and shoes and other
stuff putting the American out of work.

Placing blame doesn't fix the problem.

In addition, Hollywood promotes the
'neighbor has to have more toy's than
the next neighbor to be a anybody.'

Keeping up with the Jones' ??

How about if we just find gainful employment for the Jones'

first and
keep them child free and in school.

You know? Keep them from "Jones'n" the rest of their lives.

So! Are you going to vote for me? :)

In article <7045-403235A6-576@storefull-3216.bay.webtv.net>,
tugbertswife@webtv.net (sUSAn B Anthony) wrote:

If I were president, I would:............

No, maybe not. There's always the silent majority isn't there. Only
fringe, bible thumping obsessives give malevolent vent to their
principles. The vast majority ignore those ranting 'soap-box' people.

So, given the huge silent majority, I predict your success as being
overwhealming. Congratulations Madam President.

Hyena

Hyena wrote:
Are you (and Woods) the only sane
Americans Sue? Are you the only ones
that can speak with practical common
sense and maturity?

Hyena

I started this last night and wasn't able to get back with it until now.

Dani wrote:
"Hey, sure, don't use a condom - I can
get an abortion for free."

You wouldn't get but *one* free. If you screw up again........we send
your slutty- ***** of to military school for sluts! (just kidding...sort
of)

No condom = more chance of sexually
transmitted diseases.

How much more of a chance can it be? We are already #1 - right?

This program will decrease STD's and pregnancy rates dramatically, I
believe.
Free tickets to LA Laker's games for the males who use a condom each and
every time they have sex. Huh? ;)

Kind of like rewarding the little tikes with a cookie for peeing in the
potty!

Gotta disagree with this one.

WWDD?

I would have a "Young Women and
Teens" mobile healthcare unit which
would come to public housing and
other designated areas twice a week to
offer free pregnancy testing,
counselling, birth control shots, IUD's,
condoms and STD testing and
treatment.

Good idea but you would have to find the
funding for such a thing (lotsa $$$
involved in that..)

Not a problem! NO NEW TAXES!!
Trust me on this! ;)

Can't disagree here.. the more condoms
the merrier.. it's also a great reminder.
Maybe you should also put them outside
bars, clubs and movie theaters.

As a prize in the bottom of crackerjacks!
;)

I would give a $10 gift certificate for
every teen who came on time for her
monthly birth control shot which would
be redeemable at various local retail
clothing stores.

Gotta raise that $10 a bit.. there's really
nothing we can buy that we like for
$10.00 at clothing stores these days. It's
not much of an incentive for the "trendy"
teens and young women.

$20 up north = $10 down south.

"The Body Shop" has a whole rack of shirts and pants under $10.

My husband went to "Old Navy" last week and bought a nice pair of cargo
pants and a jacket for $18 while I was over at Spencer's cleaning up on
sales.

I bought 3 "Bleeding Edge Goth Dolls" for $24.99. Normally, you pay that
much for 1!

http://www.blacktoybox.com/dollsgoth.html

Oh....I do tend to go off topic!

Anyway, we would adjust the value of the certificate according to the
cost of living.

This program would dramatically
reduce the taxpayers cost of feeding
and clothing the unwanted children
born each year in the US. These
children are destined to a life of
poverty and crime in an endless cycle
and usually end up in jail which is also
paid for with taxes.

...Or the kids born could strive that much
harder to break the cycle of poverty and
crime in which they were raised. Stating
it as a matter of fact that these kids will
usually end up in jail is too broad of a
generalization. A lot of kids see their
parents' mistakes growing up and want
to be the complete *opposite* of what
they were exposed to. And these kids
have the advantage of having "lived and
learned" the hard way.. which in turn
will make them work harder towards
their goals; and grow to help others in
situations that they themselves were
once in. Knowledge is power. And what
doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger.

If only that were the reality.

If that were true for the majority then
the cycles would be broken already. They need an awful lot of help and
some pushing because everybody isn't as strong or determined as say "You
and I" are.

Just my little shine of optimism on the
subject.
Did you hear about the little girl who was
raised by a heroin junkie mother then
went on to be a Harvard Graduate?

And that is a success story that is rare but not unheard of. I know
somebody who adopted 4 bi-racial children (now age 15 to 19) who's
mother was on crack all through out her pregnancies and their story is
not turning out so well. Even though they were placed with loving
parents who raised them, they have all been arrested at least once, one
has been placed in a juvenile psych-center and the oldest is serving
time and has had a baby which has been placed with adoptive parents.
They are all on medication and I guess you would say 2 of them are
mildly retarded.

This program will give young teens a
better shot at their own life if they can
finish growing up before they are
forced to raise a child.

Agreed. But be prepared for rebellion.
Teens love to test the waters and defy
authority.

Yes we do! They, I meant they! ;)

Well, that's all the bright ideas I can
think of for the moment. I might add
more later.

Not bad. Just throwin' back a few
rebuttals you might get if you were to run
for office .. ;)

I can *just* imagine what I would get. And so I withdraw from the
imaginary race.

Besides, I quite *love* my current position and I'm already living in a
white house! ;)

sUSAn