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China had the right idea: one child per woman...and then they panicked and abandoned it when they saw it was working.
The U.S. has exactly the wrong idea: we give TAX BREAKS and food and housing support for extra kids. And we support religions whose goal is to "Go forth and multiply."
China did not "panic and abandon" their one-child policy. They stopped it after it achieved its goal (ie, achieved the widespread massive increase in standard of living/quality of life). They are having an issue with disproportionately many more young men than women now (because so many female newborns were "strangled by umbilical cord during delivery"... which somehow happened far less frequently to male newborns ), but otherwise the policy has worked so well that it is not needed any more.
Taxpayers in the US should not be stimulating welfare population to have kids they can't raise by paying that population for having kids. There should be a fixed welfare benefit for an adult earning less than a certain cutoff annual income, and it should be up to that adult how many people he/she wants to feed with that fixed handout. The handout should come with a photo of Serena Williams in action with a racket, and the information that she has one child, which she has had after she had built a successful career in sports, after she was married, and when she was well in her 30s.
China had the right idea: one child per woman...and then they panicked and abandoned it when they saw it was working.
The U.S. has exactly the wrong idea: we give TAX BREAKS and food and housing support for extra kids. And we support religions whose goal is to "Go forth and multiply."
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Originally Posted by iwantcookies
Give $30,000 a year to those who do not have kids.
Exactly. Those that chose to be childless get squat.
“Without expanding access to the types of shelters people want and need…”
There’s a well-known way to get the type of housing you want: get a job and attain it for yourself. Until then, you take what society offers because we’re paying for it.
The homeless themselves are the ones creating the danger to themselves and others. If they have a criminal history, throw them in jail. If they have a mental history throw them in a mental institution (and yes these need to be brought back big time). If you take care of those two subgroups, then the shelters will become safer literally overnight as those two groups are the ones contributing most of the problems.
That's all very well, but plenty of "camps" or camping out homeless in subway system. Person or persons have set up housekeeping at north end of 72nd and Second "Q" stop for past few months. Each time train pulls out looks like that spot is growing with more rubbish and homeless.
Yeah. I know. They're just moving homeless people around. It's whack a mole. Sigh.
It's so depressing. I really wonder if other countries have this type of problem. With this magnitude and scale.
And criminality. I really wonder... I'm going to google!
“Without expanding access to the types of shelters people want and need…”
There’s a well-known way to get the type of housing you want: get a job and attain it for yourself. Until then, you take what society offers because we’re paying for it.
(I missed this post, yesterday..........)
I agree, 100%. I didn't come from a wealthy family, in any way, shape, or form. But we got by, and made things work. How? Our "secret formula" was w-o-r-k, and lots of it. Over the years, I absorbed all of the OT that my employer had to offer, and because I was one of the more competent employees, I was usually one of the first to be tapped for OT, when it was needed, to make production schedules.
Some of the OT pay was spent, for "extras", to make life a little more enjoyable, but most of it was salted away, in my 401K plan, for future growth. It allowed me to retire at the age of 56..........
There was an article in my local newspaper, today, about housing for the "economically disadvantaged". One protestor was shown carrying a sign reading, "Housing is a right". They should tell that to their parents, as THEY were the ones who brought children into the impoverished situation, NOT the rest of society.
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), but otherwise the policy has worked so well that it is not needed any more.
