Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Teenagers and their sex drive

The Political Law of Unintended Consequences continues...except that this consequence was so very obvious, you'd have to be stupid...or a liberal...to not see it coming.
From the UK:
A multi-million pound initiative to reduce teenage pregnancies more than doubled the number of girls conceiving.

The Government-backed scheme tried to persuade teenage girls not to get pregnant by handing out condoms and teaching them about sex.

Original article here, commentary here. A PW commenter puts it very succinctly:
Don’t ya love it? Am I the only one to notice that if a leftist/liberal/democrat says that doing “A” will stop “B” from happening then YOU KNOW that what’s going to REALLY happen is more “B”?

Rents high?
Introduce rent control = Higher rents.

Teens getting pregnant?
Teach them birth control = More teen pregnancies.

High cost of Health care?
Government backed health insurance = Higher health care costs.

Economy in recession?
Government bailouts and buyouts and stimulus = Depression.

High murder rate in cities?
Eliminate citizens owning guns = highest murder rate in U.S.
Couldn't have said it better myself.

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