Do you believe the welfare system rewards the wrong people to reproduce in large numbers? (how much, elect)

[gunlover]

I am not talking about the single mom who needs help after her husband died, but the poor women who has 6 kids, is pregnant with her 7th kid, her first two daughters are pregnant, her son has impregnated a girl at age 17. ect

Do you believe the welfare system rewards the wrong people for the wrong actions and has lead to America becoming a ineptocracy


Ineptocracy
a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

[shooting4life]

Yes, the system rewards the poor in the form of government subsidies to have kids. The more kids they have the more money they get.

Dependency is another form of slavery.

[hawkeye2009]

Originally Posted by gunlover

I am not talking about the single mom who needs help after her husband died, but the poor women who has 6 kids, is pregnant with her 7th kid, her first two daughters are pregnant, her son has impregnated a girl at age 17. ect

Do you believe the welfare system rewards the wrong people for the wrong actions and has lead to America becoming a ineptocracy


Ineptocracy
a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

Love the Costco line from "Idiocracy".

[EddieB.Good]

No. It just doesn't punish their bad behavior. Poor people have been having kids, regardless if there was a welfare system in place. If we erased it tonight, we'd still have the same problem in 10 years.

[ellemint]

You don't need to worry about the "wrong people" having too many kids.


Health & Human Services reports that:


The average number of persons in TANF families was 2.4, including an average of 1.8 recipient children.

One in two recipient families had only one child.

Less than eight percent of families had more than three children.

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/...hap10-ys-final

[ellemint]

Originally Posted by EddieB.Good

No. It just doesn't punish their bad behavior. Poor people have been having kids, regardless if there was a welfare system in place. If we erased it tonight, we'd still have the same problem in 10 years.

Poor people have "bad behavior?" I didn't know that. Way to demonize the poor, our favorite group for people to hate.

[EmeraldCityWanderer]

Only in America do we place a moral value on people based on how much money they have.

[gunlover]

Originally Posted by hawkeye2009

Love the Costco line from "Idiocracy".

I like money.

[HappyTexan]

The US spends over $1 trillion in means tested programs to battle material poverty.
And what we have created over the years is behavioral poverty to take its place.
And you can't fight that with money.

[gunlover]

Originally Posted by EmeraldCityWanderer

Only in America do we place a moral value on people based on how much money they have.

We dont,