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Originally Posted by filtherton
With regards to abuse of the social safety net, I see a lot of folks decrying the problem but very little evidence that the problem is significant. Analogously, I saw someone run a stop sign once, so clearly we should get rid of stop signs, I mean, come on, the stop sign system is just asking to be abused!
Is there really money to be made having more kids? This seems like the kind of idea that only a person who doesn't have kids (or a person who is trying to foment the ire of certain political constituencies) would dream up. Newsflash: kids are expensive. Also, I find the idea that every other urban welfare recipient is somehow being propped up by the ill-gotten gains of a drug dealing boyfriend to be laughable.
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The idea that you can live comfortably on government assistance and even more comfortably the more kids you have is nothing but urban legend. Only people who have never been in the system would ever believe that.
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and I should know. I'm finally in the system.
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