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Has anyone actually seen more than one family of 5+ kids, NOT on YouTube, and they were on welfare? I haven't seen any, and that seems to be a stereotype perpetuated by Reagan in the 80s that hasn't died down. If you disagree, then let us know
Adding to that, I've never seen anyone with EBT buy lobster tail or king crab on food stamps. Anyone else also seen that? Allegedly
Has anyone actually seen more than one family of 5+ kids, NOT on YouTube, and they were on welfare? I haven't seen any, and that seems to be a stereotype perpetuated by Reagan in the 80s that hasn't died down. If you disagree, then let us know
Adding to that, I've never seen anyone with EBT buy lobster tail or king crab on food stamps. Anyone else also seen that? Allegedly
I've seen them buy a lot of junk food, that is the honest truth.
Getting pregnant is the easiest way to get benefits. Since they are being cut for everyone else I would not be surprised to see higher pregnancy rates in poor single women to come. If planned parenthood is defunded and abortion rights lost there will be many more of these.
My wife was a caseworker for impoverished, mostly black, women for a number of years. Some of them didn't understand how they kept getting pregnant. Yes, it's true, they didn't understand the birds and the bees.
I would garner it would not take long to figure out that any benefit you receive for any child you have, does not exceed the financial and time burden that comes with a child. That only gets worse with more children.
I believe we as a society need to decide how important it is to limit the spread of poverty. I'd be willing to pay higher taxes if sex education, and contraception were easier to access.
I've seen the white middle/working class husbands and wives who are shooting up smack and dying with four or five kids. Those stories keep rolling in. Is that a welfare queen?
Where I live I see mothers with multiple children of varying ages, usually Mexican, using food aid cards in my grocery store. I'm sometimes surprised just how young these women are, already with so many mouths to feed. I rarely if ever see them buying junk food, however. Our store is pretty far from the low income housing that they walk from and I understand how difficult it is to keep fresh healthy food in the house when it's such a production to get it.
I've seen the white middle/working class husbands and wives who are shooting up smack and dying with four or five kids. Those stories keep rolling in. Is that a welfare queen?
Nah when a right winger talks about welfare queens, they're always referring to a Mexican or black woman.
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Originally Posted by Cheesesteak Cravings
My wife was a caseworker for impoverished, mostly black, women for a number of years. Some of them didn't understand how they kept getting pregnant. Yes, it's true, they didn't understand the birds and the bees.
I would garner it would not take long to figure out that any benefit you receive for any child you have, does not exceed the financial and time burden that comes with a child. That only gets worse with more children.
I believe we as a society need to decide how important it is to limit the spread of poverty. I'd be willing to pay higher taxes if sex education, and contraception were easier to access.
Question is, how is this true anymore? Honestly I go to Walmart, and I don't see any black or Mexican mom with 5 kids behind them. Yet that stereotype still exists on CD for some reason
Question is, how is this true anymore? Honestly I go to Walmart, and I don't see any black or Mexican mom with 5 kids behind them. Yet that stereotype still exists on CD for some reason
Those kids are either left at home or sitting in the car.
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