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"Better education" and "more oppurtunities" generally translate into ineffectively throwing money at the problem. This Bennett fiasco is only shameful because viable solutions to the problem were not discussed. When I say "problem," I mean the scourge of children growing up in deplorable environments and then pumping out many children of their own in the same squalor. Nonetheless, politicians of nearly every persuasion refuse to look at the ultimate source of cyclic poverty, crime, and drug use.

One remedy (but not a solution in any sense), is to require that adult female welfare recipients receive mandatory Norplant or Depo-Provera injections. Reactionaries may see this as a eugenics program, but it is nothing more than a reasonable contractual obligation. Additionally, it upholds the notion that the quality of life for a future child is more important than an unfitting person's right to have a child. Ostensibly this sounds like a pro-life type of argument, but it is certainly not given that there is no fertilization to begin with. It would also make sense to extend this mandatory birth control to drug-offending mothers--I realize this seems slanted against women but there does not yet exist an approved alternative for men.

Of course, politicians will continue to address the issue further down the pipeline where the answer becomes more prisons and more programs. Instead of trying to feebly corral the sociopaths of society who generally come from destitute environments, wouldn't it make more sense to prevent their existence outright and to foster more responsibility for those unfit to have children?