Now, imagine you had over one billion dollars available to invest, signed up with a firm, invested it all based on its recommendations and a few years later had nothing to show for it. You'd probably not bring the firm any more business, safe to say the only thing you would be bringing is charges. Well, investing elsewhere may seem like common sense to you, the nearly exact same decision has prompted criticism of Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia. Governor Kaine decided he would no longer invest state funds, or accept federal funds, for abstinence-until-marriage programs until someone, anyone, could produce a shred of evidence-based results of the effectiveness of the programs. The Washington Post reports,

"Delacey Skinner, Kaine's communications director, said the governor believes that effective sex education programs must include information about contraceptives as well as abstinence.

"The governor supports abstinence-based education, but the governor wants to see us funding programs that are evidenced-based," said Skinner, who added that Virginia will now offer 'more comprehensive' sex education."

Kaine joins the long list of Governors who are bringing responsibility back to state, and federal, spending. To date, Governors Jon Corzine (NJ), Deval Patrick (MA), Jim Doyle (WI), Eliot Spitzer (NY), Ed Rendell (PA), John Baldacci (ME), Ted Strickland as well as the Department of Education for the State of Rhode Island (RI) and states of California (which has not accepted abstinence-only money for ten years), Montana and Connecticut have all passed on the money knowing the abstinence-until-marriage programs would cost the states dearly in the end.