The typical stupidity of the left

A new program is being run out to discourage middle school age kids to stop smoking in the Fort Wayne IN area. The idea is that kids can be taught that there is a better way.

It's just 10 days into the new year and already an estimated 40,000 youths, ages 12 to 17, have tried their first cigarette. At year's end, more than 1,100 of the 1.5 million young people who will try smoking for the first time this year will become daily cigarette users, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.A new program, The Butt Stops Here, at McMillen Center for Health Education is aimed at preventing middle school students from taking that first puff. Research shows middle school age is now the most common period in which a boy or girl will try tobacco for the first time…..“It is never as good as being right in the same room with the students but having (the IVC classes) is better than not getting the information to students at all,” Ward said.He is especially concerned about tobacco use among younger and younger students and has a variety of props and information to show students novel marketing strategies that tobacco companies are using to woo younger consumers, from flavored products to youth-oriented packaging. The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel 4/12/2009

For decades, students involved in sports are encouraged – taught – to exceed average, in other words find that capability within yourself to excel. It may take giving up other hobbies, free time, useless activities, and so on.

When it comes to these activities it is possible to teach – and expect – young people to overcome natural mediocrity to achieve better. Yet when it comes to teaching youth about sex, the current President and his supporters believe that youth do not have the capacity to abstain from sexual activity until marriage. And because of that, all school abstinence programs will no longer receive federal funding.

There is absolutely no logic in their reasoning. They will have no hesitation supporting the other personal performance programs. Yet when it comes to sex, they think kids cannot exhibit self-control. Teach the kids “responsible” behavior. They can never actually control themselves or achieve higher personal performance.

It comes down to money and morals. One of the strongest opponents to abstinence programs – Planned Parenthood – receives multimillion dollar federal funding. They have already been caught in illegal advice giving in some of their clinics.

This is one more example of the sheer idiocy of this administration.