Norm Leahy’s excellent addition to Bart Hinkle’s opinion piece on Kaine’s repeal of abstinence education:
If he (Kaine) is truly interested in restraining state spending in the face of a modest short fall, her should also take his budget knife to a host of other programs receiving state funds, in particular, the earmarks legislators steer toward private nonprofit groups.
It’s not a lot of money, to be sure. But then again, neither was the abstinence program. And ever dollar the state does not spend on, say, the Virginia Horse Center, or frontier museums, and many, many more, the easier it will be for the state to meet its balanced budget mandate.
Good point.