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Orlando Enrique Fiol

wrote:
>Sometimes not being able to support a child happens after that child is
>born.

Poor people can't really afford spontaneous procreation without giving
at least a thought to consistent support, education and health care
options. The days when one salary could feed five or ten mouths are long
gone.

>A minimum wage job is barely enough to support one adult, let
>alone an adult and a child.

People really need to realize this, especially when they insist on
buying everything dirt cheap. Those rock bottom prices come at a very
high cost to the American poor.

>What do you propose for people who are laid
>off from their jobs?

I suspect there's no real proposal in the offing, just a rant about how
irresponsible the poor are.

>Unemployment is at 6% right now. Are you proposing that 6% of the
>population should starve?

Most ranters of this ilk mysteriously evaporate when asked questions
like these.

>Not everyone on welfare is a "lazy freeloader". You own a home. Are you
>telling me you don't take the tax breaks you are afforded because you
>have a mortgage?

To the conservative mind, tax breaks assisting people who already work
are reinforcing the positive in our society: self sufficiency, hard
work, good fiscal planning and responsible procreation.

Orlando