A noble act my friend, just two problems.
1) mommy says differently, as in, "shows me da mony"
2) you'll be undermining a very important Democratic demographic, they'll only throw mo mony at dem.
It's presumed that taking up the call to reduce underage (17 below) pregnancies is not overly fresh. But it's certainly part of the overall challenge.
No one in the Democratic party is interested in more underage mothers. We admittedly are reluctant to let them starve and lack housing, thus putting pregnant mommy and young infant on street. But nothing of value is gained by creating perpetual welfare cases. Getting a (supposed) vote is one thing, but we'd much rather have a productive citizen who can donate time and money. An 18 year old mother of two can do neither.
No one in the Democratic party is interested in more underage mothers. We admittedly are reluctant to let them starve and lack housing, thus putting pregnant mommy and young infant on street. But nothing of value is gained by creating perpetual welfare cases. Getting a (supposed) vote is one thing, but we'd much rather have a productive citizen who can donate time and money. An 18 year old mother of two can do neither.
At the risk of seeming argumentative, I contend that government may not deliberately try to have underage girls get pregnant but there is more money given to government institutions when more underage girls get pregnant. There could be much more done to prevent this but there is incentive for government not to do so.
The curse of socialism is to enable people to live at their lowest means. The incentive for underachievers to improve their situation is taken away when they are rewarded for being underachievers. This includes pregnant underage girls as well as people receiving food stamps.
I guess maybe we're just getting muddled between us if you view the reception of food stamps as a "reward".
I realize the word can be used in different ways.
But it's often applied (though maybe not by you here) as a motivator or an incentive.
Knowing now and having known in the past more than a few people who qualify for and/or receive food stamps, I've never met one who expressed the sentiment of, "I'm living like I do so that I can qualify for food stamps".
Young women and girls who have (seemingly) unneeded infants to me are almost certainly being motivated by a variety of misplaced sentiments and incentives. But I'm pretty confident that very few are getting pregnant and bringing a screaming, hungry, needy child into their world so that they can jack up their monthly food stamp allotment by $150.
I realize the word can be used in different ways.
But it's often applied (though maybe not by you here) as a motivator or an incentive.
Knowing now and having known in the past more than a few people who qualify for and/or receive food stamps, I've never met one who expressed the sentiment of, "I'm living like I do so that I can qualify for food stamps".
Young women and girls who have (seemingly) unneeded infants to me are almost certainly being motivated by a variety of misplaced sentiments and incentives. But I'm pretty confident that very few are getting pregnant and bringing a screaming, hungry, needy child into their world so that they can jack up their monthly food stamp allotment by $150.
At this moment in our history, it seems a far more practical response for the community (via tax dollars) to provide food for hungry citizens than to try and contend with other social byproducts of allowing more people to be hungry. Hungry people who perceive themselves as unable to get fed through traditionally respectable means can get very creative and often destructive in their efforts to fend off hunger.
P, the former (sex education) is available nationwide, but admittedly in many regions (districts) it's woefully inadequate for teaching pregnancy prevention to the 50% of 14-17 year olds who are sexually active in one or more ways.
As for BC pills, I don't see the need for schools to use their resources in that fashion. But certainly it would cost nothing for them to have freedom to tell the sexually active students the directions to nearest Planned Parenthood or similar social agency in their community.
As for BC pills, I don't see the need for schools to use their resources in that fashion. But certainly it would cost nothing for them to have freedom to tell the sexually active students the directions to nearest Planned Parenthood or similar social agency in their community.
barman, I see that once again I haven't explained myself as clearly as I should have. My complaint isn't with giving people food stamps who really need them. My case is that too many people who don't need them are receiving them. The original 10% seems much too high in my opinion especially considering the upper end of those monthly incomes.
I used to live with a lady that made $30,000 per year and was supporting 2 kids and was getting aid. I also have made $12k per year when first starting out after college and I made it just fine. If I needed more money I could have worked a 2nd part-time job.
Things are getting better as far as having fathers made accountable for their children. It's possible to get around not paying child support but it's getting much harder recently.
