HappySqurriel said:
You're making the assumption that I'm against birth control or sex education, I'm actually for both. Being that using multiple forms of birth control can cost less than $1 a day for most people I'm against the government paying for it, and I believe that sex education should encourage people who are in a position where they can't "afford" to have children to abstain. Where the government subsidizes poor decisions is by enforcing discriminatory child support laws and by paying welfare to single mothers. There was a recent news story of a ex-con who fathered 30 children with 11 different women who were all on welfare. The reason this kind of situation can exist is because the government has gotten involved with eliminating the risk of making poor decisions. If these women had to work, or were forced to live with relatives because they were unwilling or unable to work, it is likely that they would have never had children with this man; and even if they did it is likely that they would have had no more than 1. |
I never said you were...my claim is that you are against government subsidized birth control and you've made a couple of comments about abortion which I won't go into in the interest of keeping this fun (which it is by the way...got me through a really long afternoon of testing SQL scripts so thanks for that.)
My only claim here, or at least my core claim, is that government subsidized birth control is cheaper than welfare in all cases...which I'm pretty sure is true...I would obviously, like most people, prefer a system where everyone worked and everyone paid... but that being said, it can be minimized, but not eliminated. There will always be a percetage of people that will be dependent on some kind of support from the government...some of it is necessary...
On the dude with 30 children...WHHUUUUTTTTT!!!! However, ultimately in this situation, the outcome you're suggesting is ultimately unknowable by any reasonable standard. Once again I point to my past in the sticks...stupid people are a product of their environment, not their governmen...
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