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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pointless to debate this crap.  
No one-size-fits-all solution to socioeconomic dilemmas such as this, welfare recipients having children.
From a social standpoint one can easily ask the question, "Who the hell are you to tell me I can't have kids?"
From an economic standpoint one can easily ask the question, "Who the hell are you to demand I shell out more tax dollars?"
Somebody's [i]rights[/i] are going to get infringed upon.
Somebody's [i]ethics[/i] are going to be compromised.
Somebody's [i]ideals[/i] are going to get tossed aside.
Ultimately you'll be left with the question, "Whose rights and ethics and ideals are more important, the wealthy few in control or the underprivileged poor who far outnumber them?"
Good luck answering that question.
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You're trying to turn it into a chicken-or-egg question and inject what I believe to be false equivalency - let's look at it more fundamentally than that.  In ancient times, if you could not afford to feed or shelter your kids they would die of starvation and exposure.  That fundamental responsibility to protect them is first and foremost on the parent.  If the parents are blowing it and aren't fulfilling their responsibilities, then ethics and ideals are already out the window.  How meaningful is a perceived right to have kids when you would just leave your children to die in absence of someone else taking care of them?  The social safety net provided by taxpayer dollars is the "nice to have" but is not and has never been central in terms of responsibility and ethics - the role, responsibility and ethics of society as a whole to take care of your kids is definitely secondary to the role of the parents themselves.[/quote]

Wow, you are cold.

I take it you lucked out in being born to parents who took care of you.[/quote]

It's not luck or random chance.  It's called values and responsibility.  Pass it on.[/quote]

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