Is there a limit to how many kids welfare will pay for?

Question

Why do we let them keep having kids if they can't afford them?

Answer 1

Shasta is 15. Her biological father is in prison, three of her brothers have been jailed for various offenses - one for murder. Her mother is on welfare. Shasta is Black, poor and pregnant - for the second time with an illegitimate baby. She receives housing, electricity, food stamps, and welfare payments. She knows that her assistance will in-crease upon the birth of her second baby. Her first child was born premature in one of the largest public hospitals in the nation, Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Her and her baby’s medical bills amounted to more than 78 thousand dollars. Thousands of taxpayers in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the rest of the USA shoulder the burden of Shasta and her offspring. Elaine is 32. She and her husband Ron both work hard and pay a great deal in taxes. They are trying to buy a home and start a family, but they just can’t afford it because Elaine would need to quit work for a while. They are hoping, in a couple of years, to be able to afford one child, but they know that it will be extremely expensive sending their child to a private school.

They feel it wouldn’t be right to send their child to the 85% Black, crime-filled, drug-laden school in their district in New Orleans. With the sales tax at 9% and their state and federal income taxes at close to 30%, they feel resentful that, not being able to afford children of their own, they must support welfare illegitimates.

Fifteen-year-olds like Shasta are an increasing occurrence in our major cities even though the government spends better than ten times more on welfare than two decades ago. America has more poor, more crime and more ghettos, more alienation than ever. Why? It must be painfully obvious to almost everyone by now: the high welfarite birthrate outstrips our ability to finance meaningful programs to help the poor. To solve America’s poverty problem, the soaring illegitimate birthrate must be curtailed.

Those who say we can’t slow the birthrate aren’t being honest. To slow it, we must make it clear that there will be financial benefit to the individual recipient if she practices birth-control and financial penalty if she doesn’t. If this is combined with rigorous orientation and “qualification” on birth control methods in order to qualify for public assistance, the high birthrates would drop like a rock.

The truth is, however, that the politicians don’t really want this to occur. Those Black births mean more political power for the liberal-minority coalition. Among themselves, Blacks admit that they will eventually take political control through their birthrate. Morris Jeff, who was President of the National Association of Black Social Workers, and director of the New Orleans Welfare Department, thinks the high Black birthrate serves a long-range purpose for the Black race. Jeff said,

“should they have children? I don’t think they should not have children .. .1 think reproduction patterns are based on self-interest, although not in any conscious sense. When you look at the gains the Black community has made, it hasn’t been based so much on opportunity as on the profoundness of numbers. In the political arena, you count votes. . .

“The best self-interest of the Black community is for it to have its numbers. I could not support a position that would decrease our numbers. In some in-stances, this is what Darwin was talking about, the name of the game is just to be there in the future.”

Answer 2

No- but there should be a limit! They knowingly get pregnant, they can go out and buy some type of birth control but they refuse to because the more children they have the more money they will get, if a person can afford to have 7-12 children then I say go for it, but if you are a welfare recipient- don't do this, you can't possibly raise your children well on welfare.

Answer 3

Instead of mandatory abortions, how about mandatory birth control? People will argue that procreation is a basic human right, sure, but welfare is not. If you want your welfare check, you must submit to chemical birth control (so it can't be forgotten or disposed of).

Answer 4

Just how are you going to stop people from having kids without violating their human rights? Better to make available decent education, access to healthcare, and birth control, at no charge, to everyone. We'd be paying for a lot fewer babies if we just did these common sense things.

Answer 5

If it were 1 I believe the # of ***** births would drop dramatically.

Answer 6

how much do you pay in taxes? don't worry, Uncle Sam will only up your taxes a little more. can only take so much of your burger flipping proceeds.