Termite wrote:I'd much rather a few of my tax dollars be spent on birth control for some "under-privileged" cunt, than a whole bunch of it spent feeding and housing her bastard until age 16-18; when often the county sheriff gets to take over housing & feeding the bastard.
Don't pay for the birth control
and don't pay for the care and feeding of the young 'uns. The people having kids are grown up adults, and it demeans them to treat them like subhumans who cannot take care of themselves and cannot be expected to.
Some other thread was talking about how we as a society can't make decisions for the mentally ill without giving up the constitution. If you think about it, all this money is just bureaucratic persuasion (maybe to the point of gentle coercion) for convince those "taken care of" that they are unable to take care of themselves. That attitude has caused a significant decline in the quality of life of a large portion of the population by eroding their autonomy.
I'm probably not stating all of this completely clearly. It offends me to pay for a freeloader, just like it offends anyone. Freeloader being defined as someone who can take care of himself but won't. But it also offends me to see bureaucrats convince "clients" that they
cannot take care of themselves and
should not be expected to. That, right there, is oppression. Granted the oppression is avoidable if the victim sees the fraud being perpetrated on him and decides to go his own way. But a lot of the victims have been conditioned and mal-educated from infancy to fall into the victim/subhuman category. And
that injustice being perpetrated on victims for financial gain makes me furious.
Note to self: start reading sig lines. They're actually quite amusing. :D