Single-mom bills breed bad policy

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | February 19, 2007 | Editorial

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

The state should pay for birth control pills shotgun weddings, not diapers.

[sarasmom]

Doesn't Medicare and Medicaid fall under Health and Human Services budget?
Just asking....

[JoeFromSidney]

Does anyone know the total amount of tax dollars that is used "For the Children?"

I once went through the STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES, adding up all the mney in "means-tested, income transfer" programs. It came to an average of over $6000 for every person, man woman, child and infant, below the poverty line. I think it was Walter Williams who once wrote that statistically, we've conquered poverty. If the money spent on those programs actually reached the poor, they'd be middle class.

I find it ironic that we can spend billions to subsidize bastardy and idleness, but can't find enough money to buy equipment for the military.

[nutmeg]

Now Grandma Rell and Huggies Harp want to boost those appropriations, and in the process tell women who already can't afford to take care of themselves that if they make one of the worst life choices possible, the state will pay to deliver their babies, insure them and their out-of-wedlock children indefinitely, and diaper their young ones until they're potty trained. (Of course, there's no chance the single mothers might spend their diaper dollars on cigarettes, alcohol or illegal drugs, and surely they won't feed their benefits into slot machines at the Indian casinos.)

Freakin' unbelievable... :-(

[nutmeg]

Connecticut ping!

Now Grandma Rell and Huggies Harp (Sen. Toni Harp, D-New Haven) want to boost those appropriations, and in the process tell women who already can't afford to take care of themselves that if they make one of the worst life choices possible, the state will pay to deliver their babies, insure them and their out-of-wedlock children indefinitely, and diaper their young ones until they're potty trained.

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