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Philadelphia to pay pregnant women $1K per month
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| March 23, 2023
| Julia Musto
Posted on 03/24/2023 10:31:45 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle
Reminds me of Canadian born comedian Martin Short.
I don’t know about now, but way back when, the Canadian government provided money (I can’t recall if it was a lump sum or monthly stipend) to women who had given birth in order to help them with the expenses of a newborn child. Diapers, baby formula, clothes, etc.
According to Martin in his autobiography, due to some quirk in the law, because Martin came from a large family (he was the 5th and the last child), the government couldn’t give his parents the money at the time of Martin’s birth. Instead, the money didn’t come in until Martin was a teenager. And because he was no longer an infant, the money had to go directly to Martin himself instead of his parents.
Martin bragged how he used some of the money to buy himself a reel to reel tape recorder and a case of scotch. (”Yay, socialism!”)
I can’t help but think how some tax paying middle class guys in canada are struggling and working hard to put food on the table and keep a roof over the heads of their families while their money is going to some pissant teenaged stranger so that he could buy himself a case of scotch and a tape recorder.
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posted on
03/24/2023 11:22:35 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
To: grundle
Democrats have a 50+ year history in American cities wasting taxpayer dollars on their socialist fantasies. Those programs don’t work. In the process they fail to deliver basic services. The government has zero business in picking winners and losers. Paying pregnant women just creates more useless welfare babies that will be dependent on government for everything.
The decline in pregnancies was actually a good thing. It’s called natural selection. The last thing the world needs is a bunch of feral pieces a chit being born.
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posted on
03/24/2023 11:41:24 AM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
To: grundle
And can they just abort the baby at month 9?
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posted on
03/24/2023 11:56:47 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
To: MissEdie
I have NO confidence this money is going to be spent on prenatal care. I see hair braid extensions, tattoos, and hooch.
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posted on
03/24/2023 11:57:34 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
To: fwdude
And can they just abort the baby at month 9? Only the ones that have some business and finance acumen.
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posted on
03/24/2023 11:57:49 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: fwdude
You forgot false eyelashes, gold teeth, and expensive rims for the baby daddy”s car.
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posted on
03/24/2023 12:23:58 PM PDT
by
MissEdie
(Be the Light in Someone's Darkness.)
To: grundle
Get pregnant, get a cool grand each month, get welfare and other freebies for life.
What a deal!
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posted on
03/24/2023 12:28:14 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: grundle
So they aren’t willing to admit that the money is given out by race. Instead they do it by neighborhood.
It is race-based, and therefore unconstitutional.
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posted on
03/24/2023 12:29:21 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Now you know why all conservatives aren’t necessarily “pro life”. And why Miss Lindsey shooting off her mouth about a Federal Abortion Ban hurt us.
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posted on
03/24/2023 12:30:59 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: grundle
I ended up paying way more than that after my wife got pregnant!
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posted on
03/24/2023 12:32:20 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(5,016,040 Truth | 87,429,920 Twitter)
To: dfwgator
Yep. Exactly.
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posted on
03/24/2023 12:33:35 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: dayglored
Money for these programs always gets filtered through well connected political allies of the city leaders. They always get their cut. For every $1000 going to the ‘birthing person’ $10,000 will go to the “Outreach Program.”
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posted on
03/24/2023 12:57:15 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: grundle
Wait a minute?? What about the pregnant men? What are they? Chopped liver? /s
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posted on
03/24/2023 12:58:22 PM PDT
by
eeriegeno
(Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
To: grundle
lactation support ... [smh]
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posted on
03/24/2023 1:09:27 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
To: grundle
Time to move to Philly.
I could identify as a pregnant woman for the next 20-30 years.
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posted on
03/24/2023 1:41:50 PM PDT
by
PTBAA
To: grundle
Does that include married women, or just the baby-daddy mamas?
How about the baby daddies pay $1K a month, nationwide?
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posted on
03/24/2023 3:27:39 PM PDT
by
traditional2
(lets go B*and*n)
To: Flavious_Maximus
Extremely accurate post there, Sir!
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posted on
03/24/2023 3:28:38 PM PDT
by
traditional2
(lets go B*and*n)
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