Definately taken out of context. Im disappointed in the Huff for this one.

I agree with Liam. The headline was taking a quote out of context, which is exactly the strategy Republicans love to use in their attack ads. Duplication of efforts is a real problem in any kind of government.

I would not want to make a judgment on Mr. Romney before I heard him address the problem of teenage pregnancy in detail. Maybe he was speaking code to his constituents, but I would not make a call based only on this quote.

I guess it is what the religious conservatives in Iowa wanted to hear. Oh well. The Lord will provide.

I'm sorry to keep posting to the same thread, but my wife read my reply and put her finger on exactly why this HuffPo post really gets under my skin: We as non-Republicans (Democrats and Independents) should not be sinking to the Republicans' tactics.

One thing the NeoCon Republican party are masters at is spin, taking small quotes out of context and spinning them to make the quoted person look as bad as can possibly be done. It is dishonest and although it may win some points, they are cheap points and not to your credit to win them.

Liam.

Having seen Mr. Romney speak in person, I think this is an unfair characterization of his comments. I do not plan to vote for him, I don't think he (or any of the Republicans, with the possible exception of Ron Paul) is anything like what this country needs right now.

But Romney's point about the thirteen different teen pregnancy prevention programs isn't that we should stop trying to prevent teen pregnancy to balance the budget, it's that when one program doesn't work in business, it is scrapped in favor of a new program. When a program doesn't work in government, it is supplemented by adding another program, without defunding the old one.

How true this is, I don't know, and I'm pretty certain his specifics would disagree with mine, but the fact is that statistically, abstinence only sex education programs and "abstinence pledges" have proven not only to not work, but to actually increase the problem.

Now, if we were to defund those programs and ineffective or counter productive, we could save some money. I think that's all he's trying to say, let's look at places where we have redundant programs due to failure of some of the older ones, and trim the ones that don't work. That's hardly "cutting teen pregnancy programs to balance the budget".

Liam.

Mitt is right about eliminating those teen pregnancy prevention programs. Since Bush began his abstinence only programs, the teen pregnancy rate has increased. Those abstinance programs need to go! Of course, that means a lot of Republicans and fundamentalists will be collecting unemployment benefits.

Are these guys kidding me? We have 9 trillions and debt. The TOTAL federal budget is about 2 trillions. ALL of it! Saying you can fix this mess by cutting these programs is like saying you're gonna pay your kids tuition by cutting down the number of soy sauce packets with your sushi. WTF?