06-26-2012, 04:51 PM
I'm not sure what the answer is for the kids; I do feel badly for them. If their parents can't properly care for them, maybe they should get removed from the home? Orphanages have a bad reputation (perhaps rightly so) but maybe they aren't such a bad concept. Take kids out of bad home environments and provide them with shelter, food, education, structure etc. At least you'd know your tax dollars weren't going towards the mom buying more crack and raising a kid who is likely to follow in her footsteps in some form or another.
This country didn't used to have the wealth of social programs that we have now. People had to take whatever work was available to them to survive. I think we've made the welfare system such that it's more attractive for some people to milk it than work. I think it needs major reform. I somewhat joke about the forced sterilization but I honestly don't think it's wrong to require that welfare recipients not continue to reproduce when they can't afford the ones they have.
This country didn't used to have the wealth of social programs that we have now. People had to take whatever work was available to them to survive. I think we've made the welfare system such that it's more attractive for some people to milk it than work. I think it needs major reform. I somewhat joke about the forced sterilization but I honestly don't think it's wrong to require that welfare recipients not continue to reproduce when they can't afford the ones they have.