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    i never said i have a nice mercedes.
    WTF...

    You said you had a 2006 S65 AMG. That car in 2006 had an MSRP of $169,000. You say that's not nice?

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    I just think you've given no thought to how this system is supposed to work at all. To compound the problem, you don't know what the current system provides and under which cir stances. Programs like WIC only apply on a temporary basis and start when the women gets pregnant. Are you seriously advocating the mother undergo a tied tube surgery with the kid in the womb?
    Tell me.

    Should I waste my time with you if you are going to jump to such asinine assumptions? I didn't read past your first paragraph of your long response, because the first was so asinine.

    I'll come back and look over you post when I have time. Please stop wasting what time i have. How about some reasonable questions, without the stupid assumptions.

    Let me know when your ready to stop being a Glob fly.
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    Please show me where I advocate forced sterilization.
    Well, forced sterilization for government aid... (assuming that said couple was "irresponsible".)

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    I get hangovers easy, so when I find something that doesn't give me one... I will endorse it.
    Same here WC.

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    Well, forced sterilization for government aid... (assuming that said couple was "irresponsible".)
    It's an exchange. If they want the services, they must agree to actions that prevents it from happening again. Why is that wrong?

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    That people will voluntarily swap their fertility for a little bit of money is in itself a satanic bargain, but the most shocking thing to me is the power such a scheme would give the state over human reproduction.

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    That people will voluntarily swap their fertility for a little bit of money is in itself a satanic bargain, but the most shocking thing to me is the power such a scheme would give the state over human reproduction.
    Why not just order that women in this situation must have abortions if they want governmental aid? [/extremism]
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    forced sterilization
    If only in your case...

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    Tell me.

    Should I waste my time with you if you are going to jump to such asinine assumptions? I didn't read past your first paragraph of your long response, because the first was so asinine.

    I'll come back and look over you post when I have time. Please stop wasting what time i have. How about some reasonable questions, without the stupid assumptions.

    Let me know when your ready to stop being a Glob fly.
    I'm still waiting for the statistics you cite and never provide. Are we at least going to see those?

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    If only in your case...
    lol mouse with the troll bads

    Tbh, you don't have to worry, one more kid and I'll be doing it voluntarily

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    Well, forced sterilization for government aid... (assuming that said couple was "irresponsible".)
    Why do you have a problem with that? If people engage in protected sex, and the protection fails, why shouldn't they be responsible for their actions? Why should society subsidize their needs over their gambling? It is irresponsible and often abusive to bring a child into the world that you cannot take care of. Why shouldn't society take the measures necessary to help the innocent, and keep such an immoral act from occurring again?

    What is for a rush, I play Russian Roulette with a revolver that somehow had 100 chambers. Only one had a bullet. Now in the 1 in 100 chance, I kill someone. Should I be coddled for my irresponsibility of thinking a 1:100 chance would never occur, or should I be tried for murder?

    The consequences is the deterrent to help bring about responsibility that is sorely lacing in our society today.

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    Why do you have a problem with that? If people engage in protected sex, and the protection fails, why shouldn't they be responsible for their actions? Why should society subsidize their needs over their gambling? It is irresponsible and often abusive to bring a child into the world that you cannot take care of. Why shouldn't society take the measures necessary to help the innocent, and keep such an immoral act from occurring again?

    What is for a rush, I play Russian Roulette with a revolver that somehow had 100 chambers. Only one had a bullet. Now in the 1 in 100 chance, I kill someone. Should I be coddled for my irresponsibility of thinking a 1:100 chance would never occur, or should I be tried for murder?

    The consequences is the deterrent to help bring about responsibility that is sorely lacing in our society today.
    Well if you are going to recommend eugenics then I say we start with you. Then again, we do need epsilons, partschanger.

    Quite frankly, you are not fit for espousing that type of elitist trash. You get swept under with the tide.


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    Warning...

    Because this got so long, I didn't proof read it. I don't very often anyway, but there are bound to be errors...
    I just think you've given no thought to how this system is supposed to work at all.
    Is the system suppose to bet bigger and bigger, and not do anything to reduce poverty?

    The war on poverty will soon be 50 years old. When will we do something that matters?
    To compound the problem, you don't know what the current system provides and under which cir stances. Programs like WIC only apply on a temporary basis and start when the women gets pregnant.
    No Sherlock. Is it right for us to provide subsidies as a right, or should it be more like an insurance??
    Are you seriously advocating the mother undergo a tied tube surgery with the kid in the womb?
    Absolutely not. this is why you piss me off. You go out of your way, to twist what I say. It is your MO as a regular thing. i find it very unethical.
    BTW, assistance isn't requested only by "couples". Plenty of single mothers out there.
    Do women have spontaneous pregnancies without the help of a male sperm donor?

    If the between the two that it took to make a baby, if they cannot support that baby on their own, then they are irresponsible.

    It takes two to tango.
    And plenty of people that do have jobs but still don't make enough not to require assistance.
    Then they shouldn't plant to have another mouth to feed, or risk having another mouth to feed.

    Why do you coddle those who are irresponsible? Are you one of them?
    Are you advocating that people should stop having sex while unemployed?
    You say that like every kid conceived is planned for. Until there's a 100% foolproof method to prevent conception, your claim is simply not true.
    Abstinence works.
    But I didn't claim that. I said only those that fit *your* criteria (still far from clear) for having the surgery, which according to you are being "irresponsible". Why do you want to reward them with aid instead of teaching them to be "responsible"?
    I don't understand why this needs explaining.

    The child is innocent, and should be helped. At the same time, the parents shouldn't get a free ride. The surgery gives pretty good assurance that this will not be a repeated action with this couple.
    But you don't know it's a one time event. The surgery is reversible, right?
    I'll take it one step further. What if the person gets out of welfare, decides to have another kid (seemingly "responsibly" this time), but the reversal doesn't work? Tough luck? You don't think the government would have any sort of liability to requiring her to have such surgery in the first place (something the person wouldn't have done unless required to do so)?
    Already discussed.
    Tangentially, how is this different from requiring people to have health insurance (or pay a penalty)? Didn't you think that was a draconian, authoritarian government requirement?
    You want to require people pay money because they are alive?

    How dictatorial of you.

    It's a great deal different. A choice is maintained. It is not mandatory. It is the cost to receive benefits.
    Well, tell me what a "responsible" person like you do when you can't make ends meet. Do you continue with your same lifestyle?
    Being the Glob Fly again i see.

    Of course I change my lifestyle. Our government is at a point it cannot maintain all this social spending. Something has to be done.
    Well, I certainly don't agree that people choose to do that all the time. It's obviously quite difficult to prove otherwise. Perhaps we should require them to bring the broken, used condom or the used intro-uterine device to the interview?
    Anytime a person has sex, unless they are unable to produce a child, the risk is there. If a couple is not capable of supporting a newe life in their midst, then they are irresponsible for their actions.

    I suppose as gambling goes, you could stretch this to include that we should subsidize gamblers who blow their paycheck, certain that at some time they will win big.

    Gambling is gambling. How can you sanitize it into something innocent?
    Clearly it isn't. So start explaining how having the surgery "dramatically downsize the social spending".
    How can it not?

    Would you agree that most people receiving social subsidies have two or more children, and that most were conceived needing social benefits?

    What happens when this is reduced to only one child, and others seeing this as a deterrent, take extra care not to have a child?

    I see less applications for social benefits, hence, the spending goes down.
    Well, we need to talk about long term changes, because we're talking about human life here, which is nothing but long-term. Frankly, your proposal reeks of short-sighted, something I pointed out numerous times now.
    Bull .

    Again, you are twisting what I say to the worse possible outcome. Aren't you the one that challenges the cost of the surgery vs. the cost of social benefits? I say the cost of surgery is cheaper than a second event, and you disagree...

    These social benefits are likely going to last the life of the child. Of course the long term is expensive, and why we should do all we can to stop this drain of our treasury. Statistics show a vicious circle of poverty, that most of those born in poverty, remain in poverty.
    We already have programs that address that, like WIC, CPS, we do not?
    You mean "do we not," right?

    Yes we have these. Shouldn't we strive to become a better nation and reduce the needs of these programs?
    How is the surgery requirement going to make bad parents into good parents?
    Right, it won't.
    There you go again... you Glob Fly...

    I never said it would make them better parents.
    What kind of authority do you think the government has to dictate what these "responsibility standards" should be?
    You ever read the cons ution?
    What happens when they dictate some "standard" you don't agree with?
    That happens all the time already.
    And you didn't answer any of my questions, so I'm going to ask them again: How does a surgery requirement holds people accountable?
    It doesn't hold them accountable. It takes that responsibility away from them so they don't have to be accountable.
    How does it incentive people to get a job, out of welfare and being productive members of society? Doesn't it actually works the other way around? It would deny society of potentially productive members.
    That's probable another thread in itself, but in short, if the hammock or easy chair is no longer available, people will stand up.
    How do you know they intended to conceive in the first place?
    Like I said earlier. They shouldn't be gambling.

    Maybe I should put it this way. Don't gamble if you can't afford to lose.

    Why do you act as if people have the right to be irresponsible, then expect the tax payer to make up for their mistakes?
    I would add there's some age-related instances where I definitely understand why they would try to conceive.
    It doesn't matter. Irresponsibility should be treated as a stigma. Not something to be coddled.
    So how is the surgery putting them back to work?
    I don't know that it will. It just keeps then from needing the assistance for more children.
    Where are these statistics? I've been asking you to back all this asinine sentences, but all you've been able to say so far is "look around you". I'm not taking your word for it. I posted actual statistics.
    Glob fly mode again.

    if you want to see them, you find them.
    Your perception means . You should start getting informed, so you can make informed comments. A good start would be Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
    And... what do we have to show for it, but more and more social spending yet.
    I see...

    You think the term and the story are the same thing.

    I don't recall why I used that term. Was it in a related thread, or link of that thread?

    It doesn't matter. Once again, you are taking me out of context. No surprise though. It's you M.O.
    Did I mention illegal immigration *at all*????
    Just applying it to things you have said in the past.
    Lest we forget that the economy is in the ter because some rich folk decided to gamble money they didn't have, and then proceeded to ask the government for the same welfare you're ing about?
    Really?

    That's not why we had a housing bubble burst.

    That's not why jobs are going overseas.

    That's a separate issue.
    My point stands though. We're not going back to the 50's because neither this nation or the world are what they used to be back then.
    I'm not advocating we go back to that lifestyle. Just promote that level of personal responsibly.
    A surgery requirement won't change that.
    You don't believe in deterrents?

    How many thing do you not do, that you might otherwise do, because to be caught, has unpleasant actions?
    You still have to actually back up the contention that those children are going to be perennially living under welfare and won't become productive members of society.
    Not all will, but there is a recognized cycle in poverty.

    Why should I prove things that everyone already knows?

    Want me to prove 2+2=4... That the world is round... Want me to prove that oil and water don't mix without an emulsifier?

    Ooops...

    That last one is probably over your head, and I might have to prove it to you.

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    I didn't need to read 11 pages of Ankle Biting to say this:

    Poster of the Year.

    Scoreboard es.

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    WC came back strong!

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    Warning...

    Because this got so long, I didn't proof read it. I don't very often anyway, but there are bound to be errors...
    Fair enough.

    Is the system suppose to bet bigger and bigger, and not do anything to reduce poverty? The war on poverty will soon be 50 years old. When will we do something that matters?
    So your solution to poverty is deny reproduction to poor families?
    The war on poverty entails providing means so such people can get out of poverty, by productive means and a string economy, not using eugenics.

    No Sherlock. Is it right for us to provide subsidies as a right, or should it be more like an insurance??
    We don't provide subsidies as a right. As a matter of fact, people under welfare have a requirement to obtain a job within 2 years or they lose the benefit.

    Further proof you have no idea what the current services provides and what are their requirements.

    Absolutely not. this is why you piss me off. You go out of your way, to twist what I say. It is your MO as a regular thing. i find it very unethical.
    What pisses you off is the fact that you didn't think these things through or you don't know much of anything you're talking about. When somebody (in this case, me) actually points out the stupidity or lack of thought and research of your contentions, they're just the messengers.

    Do women have spontaneous pregnancies without the help of a male sperm donor?

    If the between the two that it took to make a baby, if they cannot support that baby on their own, then they are irresponsible.

    It takes two to tango.
    Sure, but your suggestion that a vasectomy would prevent further reproduction doesn't jive. As a matter of fact, it doesn't work at all. Tied tubes would be closer to what you're looking for, but then you fall in my caveat pointed above.

    Then they shouldn't plant to have another mouth to feed, or risk having another mouth to feed.

    Why do you coddle those who are irresponsible? Are you one of them?
    You contention that people (poor or not) plan conceiving a kid in every instance is a complete disconnect from reality. I don't coddle anybody, I merely point out what the real world looks like.

    No it doesn't. Not in the real world anyways. Unless you're advocating that government should enforce it...

    I don't understand why this needs explaining.

    The child is innocent, and should be helped. At the same time, the parents shouldn't get a free ride. The surgery gives pretty good assurance that this will not be a repeated action with this couple.
    But it doesn't give an assurance. The surgery is reversible, right?
    And how is this surgery teaching them to be "responsible"? Right, it doesn't.

    Already discussed.
    So tough luck it is. Extreme.

    You want to require people pay money because they are alive?

    How dictatorial of you.

    It's a great deal different. A choice is maintained. It is not mandatory. It is the cost to receive benefits.
    I didn't write the healthcare law nor agree with it. Not sure when *I* walked into this picture.

    That said, this is no different than the government demanding you to purchase health insurance, and if you do not, they'll charge you a fee as a punitive measure.

    Here, the government would be demanding you to have a surgery, and if you do not, they'll deny the aid you need as a punitive measure.

    I don't see where the difference lies, tbh

    Being the Glob Fly again i see.

    Of course I change my lifestyle. Our government is at a point it cannot maintain all this social spending. Something has to be done.
    So if you're capable of getting by with less, why not these people?

    Anytime a person has sex, unless they are unable to produce a child, the risk is there. If a couple is not capable of supporting a newe life in their midst, then they are irresponsible for their actions.
    Wait, you're saying that only those that can afford to raise a child should have sex?

    I suppose as gambling goes, you could stretch this to include that we should subsidize gamblers who blow their paycheck, certain that at some time they will win big.

    Gambling is gambling. How can you sanitize it into something innocent?
    Not quite sure where gambling entered this discussion, but it's a terrible analogy.

    How can it not?

    Would you agree that most people receiving social subsidies have two or more children, and that most were conceived needing social benefits?
    No, I wouldn't agree with that. Would you care to back that up?

    What happens when this is reduced to only one child, and others seeing this as a deterrent, take extra care not to have a child?

    I see less applications for social benefits, hence, the spending goes down.
    What's the deterrent? They're still getting the aid.

    Bull .

    Again, you are twisting what I say to the worse possible outcome. Aren't you the one that challenges the cost of the surgery vs. the cost of social benefits? I say the cost of surgery is cheaper than a second event, and you disagree...

    These social benefits are likely going to last the life of the child. Of course the long term is expensive, and why we should do all we can to stop this drain of our treasury. Statistics show a vicious circle of poverty, that most of those born in poverty, remain in poverty.
    The bolded part is bull , I've asked you to back that up, and you still come back empty handed.

    As far as the red part, I've been asking you for these statistics. Where are they?

    You mean "do we not," right?

    Yes we have these. Shouldn't we strive to become a better nation and reduce the needs of these programs?
    Sure we do. Your surgery does absolutely nothing towards that though. If you were advancing an idea of better or more efficient job programs, or a way to get out of this overall ty economy, I would completely agree with you that those are things that help reduce the need for these programs.

    I already official statistics from the department of agriculture that show that usage of these programs match the overall state of the economy.

    There you go again... you Glob Fly...
    I never said it would make them better parents.
    Sure you did: "some people would say raising a child in poverty is child abuse". How is this surgery removing these children from this alleged parental abuse? Right, it doesn't.


    You ever read the cons ution?
    Please quote where the cons ution dictates these "responsibility standards".

    That happens all the time already.
    Like what?

    It doesn't hold them accountable. It takes that responsibility away from them so they don't have to be accountable.
    you were just telling me how it makes them accountable... I'm glad we finally agree.

    That's probable another thread in itself, but in short, if the hammock or easy chair is no longer available, people will stand up.
    But the hammock is there. You're not denying the aid.

    Like I said earlier. They shouldn't be gambling.

    Maybe I should put it this way. Don't gamble if you can't afford to lose.

    Why do you act as if people have the right to be irresponsible, then expect the tax payer to make up for their mistakes?
    The byproduct of losing at gambling isn't a human life. Terrible analogy.

    And the claim that people have a "right" to be "irresponsible" is entirely yours, and one that I don't particularly share.

    It doesn't matter. Irresponsibility should be treated as a stigma. Not something to be coddled.
    Responsibility is something you learn and teach. It has little to do with stigmas or coddling. A better education is something else that would help address this concern, not surgery requirements.

    I don't know that it will. It just keeps then from needing the assistance for more children.
    So the surgery doesn't address your concern at all. Expected.

    Glob fly mode again.
    if you want to see them, you find them.
    So we just have to take your word for it?

    And... what do we have to show for it, but more and more social spending yet.
    Actually, recipients of welfare were on the decline until the economy went into recession.

    Social spending comes in a lot of different flavors, but it obviously increases when the economy is in the ter.

    What's inexcusable is how you keep talking and talking about these programs when you know absolutely nothing about them.

    I see...

    You think the term and the story are the same thing.

    I don't recall why I used that term. Was it in a related thread, or link of that thread?

    It doesn't matter. Once again, you are taking me out of context. No surprise though. It's you M.O.
    So you never heard the tale but you you had an opinion on it... par the course, I guess.


    Just applying it to things you have said in the past.
    Like what?

    Really?
    That's not why we had a housing bubble burst.
    That's not why jobs are going overseas.
    That's a separate issue.
    Yeah, really. And the problem wasn't that the bubble burst, the problem was that there was a bubble to begin with. Bursting is going to happen sooner or later. And the bubble was entirely on rich folk gambling other people's money. Jobs were going overseas before the recession. They've been going overseas for many years.

    I'm not advocating we go back to that lifestyle. Just promote that level of personal responsibly.
    But your argument is silly. Welfare existed back then too, it was just paid by the states. They actually were a substantial part of each state's spendings. This idea that welfare didn't exist back then is ridiculous. It's only gotten bigger and bigger simply because we have a whole lot more of people, because instead of each individual state taking care of it, it all went to the federal government, and because the economy is undergoing a rather critical moment.

    You don't believe in deterrents?

    How many thing do you not do, that you might otherwise do, because to be caught, has unpleasant actions?
    Oh, I believe in deterrents. I just don't see how this surgery deters anybody from stop being "irresponsible". I actually contend that it doesn't at all. Considering you've just agreed that it doesn't hold people accountable, then I have to suppose you agree with this too.

    Not all will, but there is a recognized cycle in poverty.

    Why should I prove things that everyone already knows?
    But there isn't. There's the cycle of poverty as an economic theory, which basically destroys your idea that this castration surgery helps break that cycle at all. As a matter of fact, it backs up my contention that help in the form of jobs and education is what breaks that cycle.

    Want me to prove 2+2=4... That the world is round... Want me to prove that oil and water don't mix without an emulsifier?

    Ooops...

    That last one is probably over your head, and I might have to prove it to you.
    you still don't know what you're talking about. This entire topic is way over your head.

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    I KINDA get where WC is coming from. WC, correct me if I'm wrong.

    WC thinks that outright DENYING aid to families is somewhat wrong, as that means the child, an innocent, would suffer. So, instead, he offers a one-time out: to families that are willing to neuter themselves, they can receive government aid to help out this last child.

    Assuming they get out of debt and no longer need government payments, they are free to reverse the procedure.

    While I don't agree with the plan, I can somewhat see where WC might think it "better" than just cutting off payments after a certain amount of children. The big problem I see is that if these couples are as irresponsible as he claims them to be, then would they voluntarily submit to being neutered in order to support their children?

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    That said, this is no different than the government demanding you to purchase health insurance, and if you do not, they'll charge you a fee as a punitive measure.

    Here, the government would be demanding you to have a surgery, and if you do not, they'll deny the aid you need as a punitive measure.

    I don't see where the difference lies, tbh
    I'd say one difference is that you can't choose to stop being alive (and don't get all smart on me about this, you know what I mean ), but you could choose not to have children.

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    Holy ! ELNono comes back with a Right hook!

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    Holy ! ELNono comes back with a Right hook!
    With your commentary, are you in the Peanut Gallery?

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    I KINDA get where WC is coming from. WC, correct me if I'm wrong.

    WC thinks that outright DENYING aid to families is somewhat wrong, as that means the child, an innocent, would suffer. So, instead, he offers a one-time out: to families that are willing to neuter themselves, they can receive government aid to help out this last child.
    OK, ElNono wannabe... Twisting my words...

    Neuter suggests removal of the sexual reproductive organs. Please don't stoop to ElNono's level. I do like you, believe it or not. Please don't give me cause to see you as an unethical ass like ElNono.

    Otherwise, yes, you are correct.
    Assuming they get out of debt and no longer need government payments, they are free to reverse the procedure.
    Absolutely.
    While I don't agree with the plan, I can somewhat see where WC might think it "better" than just cutting off payments after a certain amount of children. The big problem I see is that if these couples are as irresponsible as he claims them to be, then would they voluntarily submit to being neutered in order to support their children?
    Then it could cons ute Child Abuse, and Children's services can step in. It's not uncommon for the courts to take kids away from parents.

    That's really not necessarily what would happen. They may rely on family, friends, church, etc. for help.

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    So your solution to poverty is deny reproduction to poor families?
    The war on poverty entails providing means so such people can get out of poverty, by productive means and a string economy, not using eugenics.
    You say that as if that is all I think will reduce poverty. If we could deny poor people to reproduce, it would help reduce poverty. Not because they are poor, but because of the general culture being poor causes.

    There you go being extreme again... Eugenics... Why doesn't it surprise me?
    We don't provide subsidies as a right. As a matter of fact, people under welfare have a requirement to obtain a job within 2 years or they lose the benefit.
    There are several types of programs that fall under welfare, and they don't all require that. What about food stamps? Section 8 housing? Other too.
    Further proof you have no idea what the current services provides and what are their requirements.
    Bull .

    Proof you don't know.
    What pisses you off is the fact that you didn't think these things through or you don't know much of anything you're talking about. When somebody (in this case, me) actually points out the stupidity or lack of thought and research of your contentions, they're just the messengers.
    Contrary to your belief, you are exposing your own ignorance.
    Sure, but your suggestion that a vasectomy would prevent further reproduction doesn't jive. As a matter of fact, it doesn't work at all. Tied tubes would be closer to what you're looking for, but then you fall in my caveat pointed above.
    I'm advocating bot the man and woman of the child have surgery so they cannot repeat the sin of bringing a child into the world they can't support. Their either both have the procedure, or neither. I'm sure we can find mitigating cir stances, but in general, both will need to have the procedure done for the government aide. If one refused, I'm sure some legal option like forfeiture of assets, garnishments, etc. can make be punishment enough. If not, maybe even jail time. i will assume there will be a problem with these guys who go around impregnating women, then play no fatherly roles. I'm not advocating this yet, but maybe they do deserve castration, like LnGrrrR rewords my point.
    You contention that people (poor or not) plan conceiving a kid in every instance is a complete disconnect from reality. I don't coddle anybody, I merely point out what the real world looks like.
    I would appreciate it if you stopped being an unethical ass, and stop misstating my points.

    I know that not all children are planned. Still, if people have greater cause to be sexually responsible, it will make a change in statistics.

    I don't think you know what the real world looks like. You keep suggesting I advocate things that I don't. I think your viewpoint is very biased.
    No it doesn't. Not in the real world anyways. Unless you're advocating that government should enforce it...
    WTF...

    Are you suggesting that if you practice abstinence, you can have a child?
    But it doesn't give an assurance. The surgery is reversible, right?
    And how is this surgery teaching them to be "responsible"? Right, it doesn't.
    My God.

    Why would they do that, under what reasonable stipulations would be? This would be an automatic disqualifier if they had another child and found it had been reversed. I will suggest the right thing to do would be to make it an offense that could lead to jail time also.
    That said, this is no different than the government demanding you to purchase health insurance, and if you do not, they'll charge you a fee as a punitive measure.
    There is a world of difference, and I can't believe you don't see the difference.

    We have a choice to put ourselves in a situation that can lead to having a child, or not. Are you suggesting we should commit suicide if we don't want to pay for health insurance? after all, how else would a choice to be born or not, as ex-post-facto, be addressed?
    Here, the government would be demanding you to have a surgery, and if you do not, they'll deny the aid you need as a punitive measure.
    Better than not having aide available, isn't it?
    I don't see where the difference lies, tbh
    I know. It's above your head.
    So if you're capable of getting by with less, why not these people?
    I have a pretty good cushion of money. people who need government aide do not. I can afford new car payment. Can they? I can afford another child, can they? Before you try to say it isn't right to compare a car to a baby, I suggest you remember it isn't right to expect other people's money.
    Wait, you're saying that only those that can afford to raise a child should have sex?
    Yes, it effectively comes to that.
    Not quite sure where gambling entered this discussion, but it's a terrible analogy.
    If you don't understand how having protected sex isn't like gambling, then I don't know what to say.

    What is terrible, if tax payer dollars being used in social programs that we shouldn't have. We can no longer afford such a drain on society.
    No, I wouldn't agree with that. Would you care to back that up?
    Not going to take the time. Maybe you should consider food stamp statistics though.
    What's the deterrent? They're still getting the aid.
    OMG...

    Really...

    Are you that daft?

    Other people see what happens, and there will be a drop in people who recklessly have children. Are you suggesting that irresponsibility is so rampant, it can't be tempered?
    The bolded part is bull , I've asked you to back that up, and you still come back empty handed.
    I already realize that even if I back it up, you will still find fault. I've known that about you for some time already. That's why I don't go out of my way to respond to you.
    As far as the red part, I've been asking you for these statistics. Where are they?
    Have you looked? Read stories about the poverty cycle?

    Wow... This is getting long. Going to start snipping...
    Sure we do. Your surgery does absolutely nothing towards that though. If you were advancing an idea of better or more efficient job programs, or a way to get out of this overall ty economy, I would completely agree with you that those are things that help reduce the need for these programs.
    WTF do you liberals think job programs are the answer? They are very costly for the numbers that do get help, and it does nothing to address the general at udes people develop growing up in poverty. Work ethics and education are a different topic. Do you realize you are agreeing with me on the idea this aide is lasting a lifetime? You are advocating more government aide. Aren't you tired of more and more programs sucking up tax payer dollars? I am.
    I already official statistics from the department of agriculture that show that usage of these programs match the overall state of the economy.
    Does that mean they don't make a difference?
    Sure you did: "some people would say raising a child in poverty is child abuse". How is this surgery removing these children from this alleged parental abuse? Right, it doesn't.
    Being the Glob flu again and again.

    How do you make that to read I said it makes them better parents?

    Again... After the first innocent child losing in this lottery of birth, the parents will not easily be able to do it to a second innocent life.
    Please quote where the cons ution dictates these "responsibility standards".
    It doesn't, and I didn't say there is a responsibility clause.

    One of my poor statement due to not proof reading. Congress has the right to allocate money for the general welfare. I will argue that what has been happening is in violation of "promoting the general welfare."

    "General Welfare" has a specific meaning, and it isn't welfare.
    you were just telling me how it makes them accountable... I'm glad we finally agree.
    It makes some people more responsible, as not to put themselves in such a position. Others, will never be more responsible, no matter what you do.
    But the hammock is there. You're not denying the aid.
    Only with a catch.
    The byproduct of losing at gambling isn't a human life. Terrible analogy.
    Sorry you don't see the point.
    Responsibility is something you learn and teach. It has little to do with stigmas or coddling. A better education is something else that would help address this concern, not surgery requirements.
    Yes, but how do you make that happen? If I knew how to address the root problem of lack of teaching responsibility, I would. What is your solution?
    So the surgery doesn't address your concern at all. Expected.
    The surgery does what I want to do. Sorry you refuse to understand.
    Actually, recipients of welfare were on the decline until the economy went into recession.
    One welfare statistic, of how many? Also, correlation does not equal causation. We had other things going on too, like a recovering economy.

    Again. Look at the Food Stamp statistics.
    What's inexcusable is how you keep talking and talking about these programs when you know absolutely nothing about them.
    Sorry that I believe the programs should be used as an insurance. Not a way of life. Yes, I do understand them. I also understand that some require people to sell off all their assets and become poor before they help. That isn't right either.
    So you never heard the tale but you you had an opinion on it... par the course, I guess.
    Yep, you are spinning again. Your MO.

    Again, I don't recall the Reagan story. However, the term I have a pretty good understanding of.

    Why are you making them out to be the same?

    Why?

    Why are you being so asinine?
    Writing enough already. I have seen a Welfare Queen, and heard of others through people I know. Surely, you read before where I mention the girl I was having sex with until she found out I had a vasectomy? She was really a welfare queen. Wish I had a house as nice as Section 8 provided her with. She already had 4 kids three years apart, and needed another to stay on her benefits.
    Yeah, really. And the problem wasn't that the bubble burst, the problem was that there was a bubble to begin with. Bursting is going to happen sooner or later. And the bubble was entirely on rich folk gambling other people's money. Jobs were going overseas before the recession. They've been going overseas for many years.
    Really...

    You mean consumers didn't drive the market?
    But your argument is silly. Welfare existed back then too, it was just paid by the states. They actually were a substantial part of each state's spendings. This idea that welfare didn't exist back then is ridiculous. It's only gotten bigger and bigger simply because we have a whole lot more of people, because instead of each individual state taking care of it, it all went to the federal government, and because the economy is undergoing a rather critical moment.
    It was different. And no, it didn't get bigger and bigger because of population. If that was it, the per capita spending would have remained relatively level. I'm complaining that it was taking such a dramatic increase as a percentage of taxes.
    But there isn't. There's the cycle of poverty as an economic theory, which basically destroys your idea that this castration surgery helps break that cycle at all. As a matter of fact, it backs up my contention that help in the form of jobs and education is what breaks that cycle.
    Less children to maintain the cycle.

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    You do not understand how tying reproductive rights to government aid is not eugenics? I guess I am not surprised considering that you think that Hitler was a good leader.

    You say

    If we could deny poor people to reproduce, it would help reduce poverty. Not because they are poor, but because of the general culture being poor causes.
    and you still cannot figure it out?

    You disgust me intellectually, ethically and morally.

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    I KINDA get where WC is coming from. WC, correct me if I'm wrong.

    WC thinks that outright DENYING aid to families is somewhat wrong, as that means the child, an innocent, would suffer. So, instead, he offers a one-time out: to families that are willing to neuter themselves, they can receive government aid to help out this last child.

    Assuming they get out of debt and no longer need government payments, they are free to reverse the procedure.

    While I don't agree with the plan, I can somewhat see where WC might think it "better" than just cutting off payments after a certain amount of children. The big problem I see is that if these couples are as irresponsible as he claims them to be, then would they voluntarily submit to being neutered in order to support their children?
    It's actually much more macabre than that. He contends that children born in poverty will remain in poverty and require aid (something he claims to have statistics on, but never presented when requested to). From this asinine idea, he then concludes that by denying poor people to have children, one would fight poverty (through what boils down to eugenics).

    There's a special case in economics known as the 'cycle of poverty' (you can google it if interested), which is fairly well understood, including the factors that keep people in such cycle. Those factors are primarily lack of resources (jobs) and lack of access to education. It's patently clear that fighting poverty in general has everything to do with aiding in attacking those factors, and none with government eugenics.

    The problem Cobra has is that he doesn't even know that current welfare programs already mandate obtaining a job or losing the welfare. He just sees the social spending increasing and completely overlooks the reasons for such growth. Reality dictates that when the economy goes to the ter, more people end up signing up for aid, and that when the economy was doing well, the amount of aid requested was on the decline. For example, Congress has been extending unemployment benefits for a long time now.
    I have no problem if you take the position that government must stop extending those benefits now. Debatable. But arguing that such people are required to undergo surgery if they happen to conceive an unplanned kid? Re ed and it doesn't attack the problem itself. Then there are the complete disconnects from reality, like thinking people will suddenly stop having sex.

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