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View Poll Results: Do you believe the welfare system rewards the wrong people to reproduce in large numbers?
Yes 160 74.07%
No 42 19.44%
Yes/No 14 6.48%
Voters: 216. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-29-2013, 03:41 PM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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Poor people have "bad behavior?" I didn't know that. Way to demonize the poor, our favorite group for people to hate.
It's absolutely bad behavior to have kids when you're not prepared for it. Let's not condone irresponsible behavior just b/c we believe they still deserve help.
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Old 07-29-2013, 03:43 PM
 
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Poor people have "bad behavior?" I didn't know that. Way to demonize the poor, our favorite group for people to hate.
The right's favorite to hate?
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Old 07-29-2013, 03:44 PM
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Location: Pine Grove,AL
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It's absolutely bad behavior to have kids when you're not prepared for it. Let's not condone irresponsible behavior just b/c we believe they still deserve help.
yea, but even middle class people who still ant afford a child have them. Its not specific to poor people.
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Old 07-29-2013, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas,Nevada
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Poor people have "bad behavior?" I didn't know that. Way to demonize the poor, our favorite group for people to hate.
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.â€


― Benjamin Franklin

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their poverty–– Benjamin Franklin
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Old 07-29-2013, 03:45 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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"poor people" is just code for "black people" to the right wingers.
No it is not, "poor people" is code for "poor people"
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Old 07-29-2013, 03:46 PM
 
Location: No Mask For Me This Time, Either
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"poor people" is just code for "black people" to the right wingers.
I wondered how long it would be before someone played either the 'victim' or the 'racism' card. Or both.
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Old 07-29-2013, 03:48 PM
 
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yea, but even middle class people who still ant afford a child have them. Its not specific to poor people.
But are they expecting others to foot the bill for that child, right down to feeding them in school?
And when did our schools become restaurants?
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Old 07-29-2013, 03:48 PM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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yea, but even middle class people who still ant afford a child have them. Its not specific to poor people.
Yeah, but OP wanted to limit this to talking about poor people, so I'm just playing along.
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Old 07-29-2013, 03:50 PM
 
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yes
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Old 07-29-2013, 03:50 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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I wondered how long it would be before someone played either the 'victim' or the 'racism' card. Or both.
Well that poster hasn't gotten caught up on current statistics.
There are twice as many poor White people now than there are poor Black people.

That is going to totally shatter talking points isn't it ?
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