Prophylactic Economics

Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.

The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.

While others are looking for answers to the economic dilemma, Pelosi confronts the raging bull head on. She rejects the left horn - Keynesian economics - and the right horn - Austrian economics - and goes straight between the horns with the rubber hammer of Prophylactic economics - also known as Trojanist economics - the use of which requires a certain amount of stimulation stimulus. Japan, on the other hand is taking a somewhat different approach.