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CA: Taxpayers may have to cover octuplet mom's costs
AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/11/09 | Shaya Tayefe Mohajer - ap

Posted on 02/11/2009 3:51:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: Osage Orange

From the AP: In California, a low-income family can receive Social Security payments of up to $793 a month for each disabled child. Three children would amount to $2379.


21 posted on 02/11/2009 4:37:50 PM PST by octobersky
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To: NormsRevenge

May?

Could?

Weasel words.


22 posted on 02/11/2009 4:38:38 PM PST by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Retired Greyhound

****The fertility doc should pay.****

With such superb logic - you should run for elective office.

That demented scientist impregnated a mentally challenged virgin with some random sperm...so in fact he was playing God or at the very least performing a sexual act by proxy.

Damn right he should take responsibility for his actions.


23 posted on 02/11/2009 4:41:58 PM PST by sodpoodle (Democrat - means never having to pay your taxes)
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To: NormsRevenge
A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman's 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California's taxpayers

Wow. What a shocker. Who saw this coming?

24 posted on 02/11/2009 4:42:20 PM PST by Drew68
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To: NormsRevenge
Sorry Norm, I have a different take on this. Eight little lives have been given the gift of life. Expensive though it may be, they are alive. What the left has been doing (through the media) has been to portray this as a taxpayer boondoggle combined with a lack of responsibility- but to whom? Certainly not to these little children. For they live.

The left would like nothing more than to impose a __# of children per family as China has done. Their idea of Utopia consists of empowering women to kill a fetus. This incident only provides them with the ammo to end pregnancies "cause it may cost too much to the taxpayer".

What this woman has done is deplorable, stupid, and irresponsible. How we react as a society will reflect upon whether we are deplorable, stupid, and irresponsible with regard to life. Something the Left would celebrate.

25 posted on 02/11/2009 4:56:01 PM PST by budwiesest (Eight babies trump Iran's nuclear ambitions in the news. What does that tell you?)
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To: proudCArepublican

A friend of mine had preemie twins who were born at 28 weeks. The hospital bill alone was $1.7 million.

Not to mention that preemies often need extended medical care throughout childhood. For eye exams and corrective lenses, heart surgery, and other ailments that come along with prematurity. Not only that, but many end up with learning disabilities in school... needing more money.

These 8 will be “million dollar babies” (EACH) easily before they turn 5.


26 posted on 02/11/2009 4:56:28 PM PST by elisabeth
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To: proudCArepublican
And how can she be $50,000 in CC debt

She's $50,000 in credit card debt? Well, that probably explains how she got the nose job and lip collagen in her attempt to look like Angelina Jolie. I'd wondered about that.

27 posted on 02/11/2009 5:06:21 PM PST by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: elisabeth

Will when Arnold fires 20,000 state workers if they don’t pass a budget by Friday maybe they might want to rethink on all this liberal craziness the state suffers from. I work in a hospital I know how much the 24 hour round the care nursing cost and all the other stuff that goes along with these babies being tiny it is crazy
Get a load of her website you can donate on line with your CC is she going to pay CA back probably NOT! Shame on her, Shame on the doctor and Shame on the people who continue to vote these people in. CA CAN NOT AFFORD THIS ANYMORE WE ARE BROKE, BROKE, BROKE, BROKE, BROKE................AM WE SHOULD NOT have to pay for her and her kids. Although she was kind enough to announce she was done having children Ya Think I would sterilize her NOW!


28 posted on 02/11/2009 5:10:47 PM PST by proudCArepublican
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To: Nea Wood

She owes $50K in student loans, not credit cards. At least that’s what I read earlier.


29 posted on 02/11/2009 5:53:12 PM PST by blue state conservative
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To: Nea Wood

It’s not CC debt. I saw her interview last night. She’s been living on her settlement and her student loans. She has 50K in student loans. She’s a grad student. A stupid and possibly mentally ill grad student, but a grad student nonetheless.


30 posted on 02/11/2009 6:04:15 PM PST by radiohead (Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Get a hold of Planned Parenthood.

Only if they will agree to abort the 33 year old, single, unemployed mother.

31 posted on 02/11/2009 6:16:00 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: RobinOfKingston

trying to remember the movie where the line is

She’s a breeder!

Aliens?


32 posted on 02/11/2009 6:17:15 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge
"It takes a village state to raise a child."
--Hilary Clinton

There, fixed.

33 posted on 02/11/2009 6:26:58 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I feel so bad for these poor, innocent babies. They have a life of sadness and disaster ahead of them. Their mom has brought them into circumstances that no sane, clear-thinking person would ever subject their children through. So terribly sad.

Also noted, Hussein also has a daughter named Malia.


34 posted on 02/12/2009 9:29:13 AM PST by FarRightFanatic (It wasn't an election. It was a socialist coup.)
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To: NormsRevenge

this just infuriates me as a CA taxpayer (and my wife as a Kaiser HMO member - Kaiser had to shell out $465,000 for the delivery room operation).

I am not sure if people are ready to means-test prospective parents but there is a simple solution under current law:

(1) Is the mother able to properly care for children without financial assistance?

(2) If not social services should remove and children can be put up for adoption. Given the thousands on waiting lists they should find good homes very quickly.

(3) Mother will then need to be placed in psychiatric ward, but that’s cheaper than caring for 8 kids.

(4) Remaining 6 children can then also put out for adoption, unless grandparents want to care for them.

Very simple. Minimal cost to taxpayers.


35 posted on 02/12/2009 12:00:19 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: octobersky
Would be interesting to know exactly what "disabilities" these children have....

Heck if she plays her cards right...she can get another 3 or 4 kids labeled "disabled"..and rake in another $3k a month....

$5.4k a month...ain't bad money.

fwiw-

36 posted on 02/12/2009 12:28:45 PM PST by Osage Orange (Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
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To: FarRightFanatic

The best thing that could happen to these babies is to be taken away from this woman until she goes thru a complete psychological evaluation.

I fear for these babies!


37 posted on 02/12/2009 8:11:40 PM PST by acoulterfan
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