La. Legislator Says: Let's Pay the Poor to Stop Making Babies

re: La. Legislator Says: Let's Pay the Poor to Stop Making Babies

Amazed — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:25:20 GMT

The writing is on the wall here....

If this law is passed, there will certainly be a lawsuit against the state for discrimination and rightly so!! Annonymous #1 made a good point... it's not right to dangle $$ signs in front of a person desperate for money. Some people will do unthinkable things when they are desperate for money without thinking of the consequences down the road.

One good example of what seems like good thing to do when your young, are the large number of college girls who work in strip clubs to put themselves through college. Although these girls may not be doing anything that will prevent them from ever having children, their past often times comes back to haunt them and what seemed like an ok thing to do when they were young, ends up to be something they end up regretting down the road.

If the state offers sterilization and money to those who already have 1 child or more, that would be something that may prevent the state from being responsible for dangling $$ in front of a person desperate for money. Perhaps a waiting period would also be in order... sign the appropriate papers and wait 30 - 60 days before the sterilization could be performed.

re: La. Legislator Says: Let's Pay the Poor to Stop Making Babies

esther — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:23:58 GMT

This is not a program aimed at giving women more reproductive choices. If it were, I would be all for it. Labruzzo not only wants to pay the poor to get sterilized, he wants to pay the wealthy to have more children. This program sends the explicit message that economically disadvantaged women and men have less of a right to have families then people who are well off. Further, it perpetuates the idea that the poor are shiftless parasites, sucking at the government's teat. Labruzzo talks a lot about "generational welfare", but less people would require government assistance if there was a livable minimum wage in this country.

If Labruzzo were serious about helping families struggling to escape a life of poverty, he would be working to increase the minimum wage, lower student-teacher ratios in overcrowded schools, guarantee a free or reasonably priced college education to hardworking students... Education is the key, not dangling $1000 in front of a desperate person.

This guy makes me sick.

re: La. Legislator Says: Let's Pay the Poor to Stop Making Babies

Nichole — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:42:04 GMT

Living in Singapore we saw exactly how their government encourages the educated masses to have more children, while discouraging everyone else. You basically get a child tax credit for the first three children you have, but only if both parents are college graduates. Non-grad parents don't get any credits and actually end up being penalized on their national healthcare contributions. Obviously this only works in a benevolent dictatorship like Singapore. I do agree that free or greatly discounted sterilization procedures should be available to anyone. Interesting idea.....

re: La. Legislator Says: Let's Pay the Poor to Stop Making Babies

anonymous — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:39:12 GMT

The problem is that this offers an economic incentive to get sterilized, and could lead someone who desparetly needs quick cash to get sterilized when they wouldn't otherwise want to.

I think that simply covering the costs of the procedure for anyone who wants it, on the other hand, is a fine idea.