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Originally Posted by VaSteve
No welfare. Can't work cause you got 6 kids? Fine. Drop them off at the babysitting co-op. Some other "can't work" baby mamma can watch them while you work and then vice versa.
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Got no kids, but from what I hear, ain't that simple.
1) In my opinion, having 6 kids in this overpopulated world ought to be a crime (I believe that the population explosion (what an archaic expression!) is a very real problem).
2)Given that this situation exists, gotta, of course, look after the kids - but - if day care costs as much or more than the working mother brings home, which I hear is, more often than not, the case, where is the incentive for the mother to work rather than stay at home and take care of her brood at her own (yeah, I know, "our") expense. Math's a b!tch, can't argue with it.
Welfare is only legitimate if it is an
effective tool to help extricate deserving recipients from a dependent, poverty situation, enabling them to become productive members of society, which, given the huge and growing population of this country, presents a monumental task for the glacially slow and addlebrained beureaucrats administering the current system.
Of COURSE reform is needed! But recognizing that fact is the easy part; taking effective action to bring about effective change is the befuddlingly difficult part.