I just have never understood why people continue to have babies when they can’t financially afford the ones they already have. To continue to reward them is just plain nuts.
Yes, there are times when families are financially strapped through circumstances they couldn’t control or someone just lost a job and can’t make ends meet on a temporary basis. They could use some temporary short term help. Seems to me like multiple groups are always doing a food drive. Most of them prove to be big scams by lots of scammers.
I don’t know how things work these days, but close to thirty years ago I knew some women on welfare. If you had at least one child under a certain age, you qualified for some benefit, for example a free apartment. So, if your youngest child is a year away from the deadline, you either get ready to start paying rent or you busy getting pregnant. I have, literally, heard women discuss getting pregnant to keep the benefits coming.
And, you answer your own question. Govt rewards those that are irresponsible, through pain of jail/destitution/death by stealing FROM the responsible...illegal, immoral and wholly unconstitutional.
The GOPe can’t even take a stab at any ONE of those reasons, for it would diminish the usurped power of govt and possibly begin taking down the house of cards (if they can’t to THAT, what else are they now getting away with?).
Low-info are much easier to rule over.
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I got an easier answer to the problem, and the ‘food desert’ issue: Put their asses on the growing-field commune. You work, you get a piece of the results.
Plenty of OPEN space to use, container/vertical farming, etc. Costs are minimal (prep seeds).
Might even reduce crime. The manual labor so they could feed themselves would wear little thuggy out everyday. /s