If possible: Forced birth control for those on welfare to stop the next generation of poor

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Mandres

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Absolutely not. The federal govt should never be involved in sterilization, birth control, or any other aspect of our reproductive rights as a condition for any program or benefit of citizenship. Even the appearance of such an attitude would be disgraceful - this isn't communist China.

What the federal govt should do is closely examine the terms of their various programs to remove any economic incentive for having more children. I'm assuming that's happened already, and this welfare-queen myth continues to persist mostly because people are ignorant about how welfare really works in this Country.
 
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ivwshane

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Good luck talking to liberals who think breeding and having others support them is a good idea. As someone who is left leaning libertarian its one of the few things i disagree with them on. I dont have a single problem with welfare in general. Just the way it is handled and how we let people abuse it and continue to breed on tax payer money as if that is ok.

Then as someone with a problem with the current setup I'm sure you can accurately explain what those problems are, what the percentage of people who receive benefits fall into that category, the total cost associated with that abuse and how its generational as has been claimed here.

How long should we wait for that information? I assume someone who is as passionate and as concerned about the issue as you are has those details ready to go.
 
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David Koch: Hey soulcougher! Look over there! That poor person is wasting your tax money!

And here i thought libs were about being efficient with tax payer money. Guess its all a lie. You cant even discuss the topic in a rational way.
 
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Then as someone with a problem with the current setup I'm sure you can accurately explain what those problems are, what the percentage of people who receive benefits fall into that category, the total cost associated with that abuse and how its generational as has been claimed here.

How long should we wait for that information? I assume someone who is ad passionate and as concerned about the issue as you are has those details ready to go.

It's not worth discussing with you. You have shown yourself to not be rational on this topic by your replies so far in this thread.
 

ivwshane

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It's not worth discussing with you. You have shown yourself to not be rational on this topic by your replies so far in this thread.

I figured as much and I stated as much early on, thanks for proving me right

You and the others on the other hand have been totally rational and making really good points! The anecdotal evidence and YouTube videos really sold me!

/eye roll
 

Commodus

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You seem to be missing the actual argument being made. No one is talking about 1 kid policies or permanently sterilizing people. The topic is should people on government welfare type programs be allowed to continue breeding or should they be on some form of TEMPORARY birth control until they can support themselves and kids.

Liberals seem to think its fine to let them keep breeding and someone else will pay of it no matter what. I think its fine you need temporary help from a social program, but not letting you dig our hole deeper by allowing you to add to the problem already at hand.

It's simple. However many people are irresponsible in having kids, the thought of the government deciding that certain people aren't allowed to breed is terrifying. We spent much of the 20th century desperately fighting the evils of eugenics; please don't rush to undo that progress.
 

dainthomas

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You seem to be missing the actual argument being made. No one is talking about 1 kid policies or permanently sterilizing people. The topic is should people on government welfare type programs be allowed to continue breeding or should they be on some form of TEMPORARY birth control until they can support themselves and kids.

Liberals seem to think its fine to let them keep breeding and someone else will pay of it no matter what. I think its fine you need temporary help from a social program, but not letting you dig our hole deeper by allowing you to add to the problem already at hand.

Just like drug testing the poors, this would cost far more to administer than the alleged money that would be saved.

Sounds like it checks all the boxes for conservative policy:
a. Inefficient
b. Counter-productive
c. Violates the constitution
d. Addresses a supposed problem that doesn't actually exist.

Republicans should definitely go for it.
 

Puffnstuff

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Evangelicals think birth control is literally the work of Satan so this is a no go.
That's because they're under the misconception that life begins at conception. If this were true Jesus would've mentioned something other than the sin clock beginning at the act of birth.
 

JEDI

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eugenics scare the stuff out of me. Reminds me of how easy we can all become like Nazis

Forced sterilization is insanely creepy
it's not sterilization.
birth control 1 month at a time till you get off the govt safety net/hammock
 
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JEDI

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We could save a shit ton of money and resources by removing access to Medicare for those past retirement age. That sounds like a better plan to me.

Why not go further and just kill old people who cannot provide for themselves? Just imagine how many resources we waste on keeping old people alive? It certainly would be better for society.

Does that sound like a good plan to you as well op?
um.. huge difference.

vast majority of the old paid for medicare during their working life via the medicare tax. (look at your paycheck stub. you're paying it too.)

but yes, we can save some $ on medicare by not paying the top 10 procedures during the last 6 months of life for old people.
little return on $.
those 10 procedures costs $Billions$ yet a vast # still die within 6 months.
 

ivwshane

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um.. huge difference.

vast majority of the old paid for medicare during their working life via the medicare tax. (look at your paycheck stub. you're paying it too.)

but yes, we can save some $ on medicare by not paying the top 10 procedures during the last 6 months of life for old people.
little return on $.
those 10 procedures costs $Billions$ yet a vast # still die within 6 months.

Sorry you are wrong, most Medicare recipients get back more than they pay in.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...re-and-social-security-what-you-paid-what-yo/

Sounds like you support killing the elderly though, so congrats on that. /s
 

ivwshane

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it's not sterilization.
birth control 1 month at a time till you get off the govt safety net/hammock

Since you seem to be in the know; can you show us what the net cost would be to implement such a system?
 

JEDI

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The point: you're arguing the government should have control over who's allowed to reproduce.

This will always be wrong.
no, you're voluntarily giving up that right if you accept govt aid.
want free $? there's strings attached.

just liked there are currently strings attached for using food stamps.
ie: cant buy alcohol or guns with it
but 2nd amendment...
 
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Jaskalas

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no, you're voluntarily giving up that right if you accept govt aid.
want free $? there's strings attached.

"Free money" is part of a "free society".
It should be a universal benefit with ZERO strings attached.

That's aside from the issue of if someone is having 4+ children and are living in destitution. That's similar to a pet hording situation and needs intervention to prevent further suffering from extreme poverty. Finding a way to prevent them from having anymore kids seems almost necessary in that case.
 
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Not really. Clearly they already have this information, that's why they are so informed on the topic.

/s

Okay, in a rational way tell me how it is beneficial to someone on welfare to have a child, or another child, or multiple children, instead of making their life harder and more difficult to overcome and get off of welfare? That doesn't sound like we are helping these people. And why should tax payers allow someone to be irresponsible like that and make their life situation even worse than it already is, thus harder to ever overcome getting off of welfare. Overall i'm not too worried about the actual money aspect of any of this. I'm more wondering how you think that is an ok behavior to enable. I mean money is a factor, but allowing this behavior is more important to me. So show me how their lives are better for having children while in welfare.

And leave all the eugenics and/or sterilization bullshit bogeymen out of your reply. No one is suggesting any of those things. Birth control is very cheap vs. feeding another mouth and all that comes along with having a child.

Until you can answer this in a rational way ill continue to think you are not worthy of discussing this topic.
 
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JEDI

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Sorry you are wrong, most Medicare recipients get back more than they pay in.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...re-and-social-security-what-you-paid-what-yo/

Sounds like you support killing the elderly though, so congrats on that. /s
thx.
"The couple will have paid $122,000 in Medicare taxes but will receive $387,000 in benefits."

again, stop paying the top 10 procedures during the last 6 months of life will cut down on that excess.
but that's a different thread.
lets keep on topic for this thread
 
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