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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh wow isn't it so fun to blame the poor for all of society’s ills and to try to shame them into eschewing sex until their poverty magically disappears![/quote]

Nobody is "blaming the poor for all of society's ills."  We are blaming a system that allows poverty to perpetuate.  
And, the poverty will not magically disappear.  In fact, the poverty will "magically grow" since we are incentivizing bad behavior.
Call it what you want - we are in essence, rewarding those who make poor choices by not expecting them to ever be accountable for their actions.  [/quote]

Living in poverty sucks.  Hard.  But the system that allows poverty to perpetuate includes corporate welfare and massive layers of unnecessary beuracracy- including military bases, administrative personnel, and weapons platforms- that cost taxpayers TRILLIONS of dollars.

[i]Because of its persistent inability to tally its accounts, the Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a law that requires annual audits of all government departments. That means that the $8.5 trillion in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996, the first year it was supposed to be audited, has never been accounted for. That sum exceeds the value of China's economic output last year.[/i]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/18/us-usa-pentagon-waste-specialreport-idUSBRE9AH0LQ20131118

But go on and keep getting mad about that $200 check the welfare mother gets instead of the million dollar mansion next door paid for by you and me.  [/quote]

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