The Paul Tsongas Memorial Pander Bear Award 9/30/07

As I’m sure you know, finding a worthy recipient for this august award was a tough call—especially in the heat of a POTUS battle by both parties, but I do believe I have found a worthy person:

Hillary Clinton and her “give every newborn $5,000 from the government program.”

What’s not to like, after all, it’s for the freakin’ children? However, I do have my doubts that this freebie will “help Americans get back to the tradition of savings” as Hillary claims. That makes no sense—”Americans” won’t be saving, the government will be forcing “Americans” to save. Kinda like those personal Social Security accounts that don’t exist.

And let’s get real here, do we really need a new entitlement when we are facing a crises in funding Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid?

And isn’t paying people to have kids the same as the old welfare state, which Hillary’s wonderful husband said was over? I guess not, if it can buy her a few votes—-with other people’s money.

And what about the immigration crises? Illegals are already sucking social services dry, this will only encourage illegals to have even more kids to take advantage of the dumb gringos—-sounds like a plan—for illegals.

The money quote comes at the end of the article: “The New York Senator did not offer any estimate of the total cost of such a program or how she would pay for it. Approximately 4 million babies are born each year in the United States.” You do the math.

I guess the upside is that fewer women will be having abortions, since they would have a financial incentive to keep their babies.

Hillary Clinton: The Pander Bear salutes you!

UPDATE 10/1/07: Voters turn against Pander Bears, according to a recent Rasmussen survey. By a margin of 2 to 1 (60% against; 27% for) likely voters rejected Hillary’s $5000 baby bond entitlement scheme.