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Why did Sarah Palin used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program helping teen mothers in need?

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I see some folks can't read well. She cut the funds for a library. She slashed the funds helping teenagers in need.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    She looks out for own interests not her children's

    Worst than Mondale/Ferraro = McCain/Palin

  • 1 decade ago

    here are the facts for all who are interested

    the house was not shut down

    the line item in question was for the Covenant House Alaska which is the parent orginization for Passage House which is the center for the teen mothers

    There was no funding exclusively earmarked for pregnant teens.

    funding was not "slashed". the alaskan state budget had an allocation of 5 million dollars to go to Covenant House. Pailin cut this to 3.9million. In 2007 they only received 1.3million from the state and in 2006 only 1.2million.

    in reality Palin gave them more this year than in the previous 2 years combined! there was no attack on pregnant teens and the washington post got this one wrong

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Maybe Gov Palin wants the teen moms to take responsibility for their actions and not put it off on the government and society. Things like her pregnant daughter is doing. Admit she made a mistake. Stay in school and graduate so she can better care for her child. Don't get an abortion to just make it all go away. Marry the child's father so that the two of them together can raise the baby.

    I know responsibility is a dirty word to libs but get over it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Its been pointed out several times that Alaska is not a largly populated state..can you provide some statistics as to the number of teen pragnancies? 5 million dollars seems like a lot of money for this program that had funding cut.

    Source(s): I looked it up myself..teen preganacy rate in the state of Alaska..down 30 percent since 2000...gee I would not know why there might have been a consideration to cut the budget..
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  • 1 decade ago

    The line item shown vetoed was for an expansion of the library. Now, I'm all for libraries, but perhaps Palin needed to put that money to use elsewhere. No one has an unlimited budget.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    In her international it is in basic terms peachy keen to be an unwed pregnant teenager as long as you have money. Your screwed (pardon the pun) in case you reside interior the Bronx. Hmmm.. ask your self what the Alaskan version of the Bronx feels like?

  • Typo
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Did you LOOK at the form in the link? This form is where she cut the funding from a library expansion.

    Just think, she was trying to do what a lot of people can't do-live on a budget!

  • 1 decade ago

    Good God!

    This just keeps getting better and better in a worse and worse way.

    Excerpt:

    Earlier today the Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, opposed funding to prevent teen pregnancies, a position that Palin also took as governor. "The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates.

    Reporters asked McCain in November 2007 whether he supported grants for sex education in the United States, whether such programs should include directions for using contraceptives and whether he supports President Bush's policy of promoting abstinence.

    "Ahhh, I think I support the president's policy," McCain said.

    Thanks, Sarah. Thanks, John. Your "abstinence stance" is really paying off... for the Democrats, isn't it?

    Yeesh!

  • 1 decade ago

    Perhaps she thinks the fathers should have that responsibility. They do have laws to make dead beat dads be responsible as well as the moms.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The abstinence program isn't working in Alaska?

    Weird.

  • 1 decade ago

    let me think there for a second. Extrem right anti-liberty politician oh and shes a hypocrite.

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