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Originally Posted by TriMT7
5) Stop whining about foodstamps and free lunches. Foodstamps are just one big corporate handout to big ag and the food industry anyway. And really, we're whining about feeding KIDS?
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Here's the problem with that... Those receiving public assistance have a birth rate
3 times higher than those who don't.
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"The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) gave states greater flexibility to formulate and implement initiatives to reduce welfare dependency and encourage employment for members of low-income families with children. For the nation, in 2006, 10 years after passage of the Act, the birth rate for women 15 to 50 years old receiving public assistance income in the last 12 months was 155 births per 1,000 women, about three times the rate for women not receiving public assistance (53 births per 1,000 women)."
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http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p20-558.pdf
And very similar stats in the 2010 release (The 2012 report hasn't been published. Only data tables are available, and it looks like they've stopped tracking this statistic because it's obviously incendiary.):
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"For the nation, the birth rate for women receiving public assistance was 160 births per 1,000 women, almost three times the rate for women not receiving public assistance (56 births per 1,000 women)."
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http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p20-563.pdf
Is that sustainable? Will the 49% who actually pay any federal income tax be able to afford to keep paying more and more to financially support an exponentially growing chronically poor class? And how "moral" or "kind" is a country that
incentivizes the highest rate of birth among its poor? What kind of future are all those children born into poverty going to have? Right off the bat there are
overwhelming odds AGAINST them. Why would any country
do that to its own children? Why is incentivizing an increasingly larger poverty class Democrat/liberal policy?
So, whining about feeding kids? Absolutely! Because it's
those programs that make it easy and profitable for irresponsible people to bear child after child with NO thought whatsoever to providing for that child, guiding that child to adulthood, and helping that child develop his/her potential so they can be contributing members of society. Those children are nothing but freebie factories to the poor, and they're creating an exponentially increasing chronically poor class to rake in the benefits.