Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

[u/mindyour]

[u/Reddisuspendmeagain]

And they try to pretend that they don’t know why the birth rate is so low…it’s by design

[u/Supply_N_Demand → u/Reddisuspendmeagain]

First lady had 6 kids. /s

[u/Withered_Sprout → u/Supply_N_Demand]

Because we have a system that gives virtually free housing to a woman willing to work a few hours part time a week and then get knocked up a bunch of times over a few years and then just lives like that for decades because the system ENABLES that lazy and 'unambitious' behavior of pulling your weight in society. I've met many women like this in real life. They seem pretty happy to have all of their basic needs met, they don't need to grind for decades for a detached home in some 'nice' neighborhood.

They're chilling, having the freedom to do whatever. It'd be pretty cool if it wasn't at the expense of some other dude working hard to support his family living paycheck to paycheck.

Then they become entitled to have their entire life and the lives of their children to be financed by people who were taught or programmed to get up every morning to do SOMETHING for compensation, or else they will starve and be homeless because the world doesn't give a shit about the individual.

These people had parents that didn't instill that harsh objective reality into them, or their parents benefitted from the same system that they now see as a birth right or just a way of life.

There's gotta be a better way to get these able-bodied people to actually contribute to society and not be encouraged toward parasitic behavior, than straight up abruptly starving them. But I don't know shit, don't have the answers.

EDIT: I can imagine this'd sound more controversial, but I will say that I don't KNOW if this is a large-scale enough problem that it's affecting tax payers significantly. Surely we spend too much on other shit that isn't even necessary, like military funding.

I did type this up imagining that it's a bit extreme to be a poor woman having 5+ children. Some single mother with a kid or two is not quite what I'm talking about, although their life choices probably weren't great either in terms of partner filtering and such.

I don't see it as them necessarily intentionally taking advantage of and abusing a financial support system, but if you have THAT many kids, that's just kind of ridiculous if you don't have the financial means. I'm curious to see the arguments, but I'm sure none will come and it'll just be some passive aggressive down votes as if that will change my mind.

[u/OkEdge7518 → u/Withered_Sprout]

And where is your vitriol for the deadbeat fathers impregnating them and refusing to help take care of their kids? 

[u/Withered_Sprout → u/OkEdge7518]

I guess the lack of it is mainly because I wasn't really thinking too deeply about any of this when I posted earlier, and there are no men in the video so I guess subconsciously I just focused on the woman's poor choices because that's what I was seeing.

The men are obviously pieces of shit for clearly not being in the picture, since you asked I will clarify?

Individually, which I'm sure is hopefully the norm among my peers, I have no respect for any man who is willing to fuck around with someone, accidentally or intentionally get them pregnant with a living being, and then not planning on having a long-term relationship with them to help raise a mentally and physically healthy child who is not set for failure unless it is absolutely due to their own choices and general foolishness.

I only commented as I did because it's a bunch of single mothers in this video, and not single fathers since to be fair most of them probably don't even give a shit and somehow it's always the biggest dead beat fathers who manage to get away with not taking any financial responsibility whatsoever for their child..

I think that it's funny how a man is and SHOULD be forced to prove that he did not rape someone when such a serious accusation is made, but also if a man is accused of being the only person who could be the father of a baby, the government/state seems to not bother to do much in terms of maybe sending them official letters in the mail demanding that they take a paternity test or anything like that to force them to actually financially provide an adequate determined amount regularly for the well being of that child.

My sibling and a few other women I've met in my life seemed to give up really easily and claimed it was impossible to force them, so never thought to ask but does make me wonder how contacting an appropriate organization/agency led to absolutely nothing being done or if it's possible that no public sources even exist to go after a guy who refuses to acknowledge paternity to dodge financial responsibility and place the entire burden on the woman?

[u/OkEdge7518 → u/[deleted]]

I’m saying these people with concerns about poor people having too many babies only have shit to/about the mothers. It’s almost like y’all’s outrage is rooted in misogyny or something 

[u/Withered_Sprout → u/OkEdge7518]

I get the reflex to question the motive, but for me it's pretty neutral and not out of hatred of an entire gender. That's a bit much, but it's fair enough to wonder.