[Stop Legal Plunder]

Someone wants to have 50 kids - fine. Someone wants to make me pay for those kids - not fine.

I agree with you completely. The problem is what to do about our present system which has institutionalized plunder -- taking some to give to others without regard for equity or justice or responsibility -- at almost every level.

One way to try and limit the damage is to pass laws that enable more government intrusion and more government power (e.g. sterilizing families with more than x number of children in public school). The alternative is to fight to pass laws that result in less government intrusion (e.g. ending state control and funding of education).

It seems to me the only conservative choice is the second one.

[thoughtomator]

If anyone wants to make a serious attempt at the second one, I'll be the first on board.

But what political party would champion it? There is none. It is borderline delusional to think that might occur.

So given the reality of the situation, the pragmatic solution is to sterilize people who put their children on the public dole. This limits government to the absolute minimum that can be done in the current situation by minimizing the amount that government spends on the problem.

Call it 'relatively conservative'. I've been a true conservative long enough to know that true conservatism hasn't a prayer in hell of becoming manifest in law. After all, we elected President Bush, didn't we? And he thanked his small-government conservative supporters with an unprecedented increase in the size of government, no?