In response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent comment that increased funding for government-supplied contraception services would ultimately “reduce costs of the states and to the federal government,” WorldNetDaily today posted an article I co-authored more than a decade ago with Christian financial teacher Larry Burkett.
The piece is titled, “The George Bailey Effect,” playing off a theme explored in Frank Capra’s 1946 film, It’s a Wonderful Life.
In that film, struggling businessman George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) is allowed to see how radically different his hometown would have been, and how even the outcome a World War II battle would have changed, had he not been born.
The WorldNetDaily posting is here. The original nine-page publication from 1998 is here (PDF).
Some of the specifics are dated, of course, but the overall argument is unaffected.
