$500 Account at Birth? Oh Baby! (Schumer wants taxpayers to give $ to newborns)

times-union ^ | 7/9/09 | JENNIFER A. DLOUHY

[SoFloFreeper]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Charles Schumer wants to give every child born in the U.S. a $500 savings account, courtesy of the federal government. The Democrat from New York plans to introduce legislation next week that would establish savings accounts for all newborn U.S. citizens and allow them to grow tax free...

[SoFloFreeper]

Democrats are definitely full of bloomin' idiots.

[Lazamataz]

And WHAT BETTER TIME then when the government revenue streams are drying up and the economy is in tatters? Hey I know, Chuck! Let's increase taxes on business to pay for this!

THAT'LL get the economy rolling.

[ClearCase_guy]

I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you. I have a plan -- three easy steps:
1) Do you have $550 in your righthand pocket? Great. Give it to me.
2) Now, as a government functionary, I'm performing a service here, so I'm taking $50 from this, okay?
3) Now, observe -- I am personally placing the grand sum of $500 in your lefthand pocket! This is for your child. You can thnak me later, and don't forget to vote!

[Lazamataz]

Additionally, the unintended consequence of this moronic (thusly Democrat) idea would be a sharp uptick in births as less-scrupulous people had kids to get the cash.

[posterchild]

It will just be called a budget saving measure.

[Clock King]

No, but they can still vote Democrat later on.

[roaddog727]

Stop. STop. STOP! giving my money away!

[gathersnomoss]

Your checkbook = Schumers checkbook. Where the HELL do these a$$holes think this money is coming from? That's right, it is “patriotic” to steal from the masses.

PRICKS! Keep it up. There will be major blowback! People are PO’d and time is close to a massive revolt.

[HIDEK6]

And if you have a certifiable history of being a “po’ black chile,” you get the $500 plus interest retroactively.

[meowmeow]

Yikes! Who has the FreeRider ping list!?

It's bad enough I have to pay for crappy public schools, now I might have to start the little darlings' savings accounts?

How can I get the taxpayers to pay for my kitty cats' health care?

[taxtruth]

That’s one way to track the sheep.Ya can’t write this stuff up folks.Orwell would say,I told you so.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

What a great idea ! Schumer should get out his checkbook today.

[KarlInOhio]

The $500 will go along nicely with the $40,000 of debt the child gets for being born.

[laweeks]

Well, let’s see, Chuckie.

If we kill it first (abortion), we don’t get the money.

If it’s born alive “accidentally,” and then we kill it (like Obama says we can do legally . . . you know . . . put in a medical waste bin or closet to die), do you get a COLB that you can cash in?

Or, to keep those Christian-minded freakos who would like to adopt the baby from doing so, you could keep the kid, and cash in Chuckie’s money . . . $500 bonus.

Is this guy a total jerk, or what???????

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Chuckie’s gone pro life!;-)

[RedStateGuyTrappedinCT]

I have an idea let Chuck give everyone $500.00 out of his personal funds. See how he supports the idea then.

I propose that Chuck be forced to pay this tab until he can get up in the well of the senate and point out the exact phrase in the constitution where this is authorized.

In fact we should apply that to everything these libs propose. The sponsoring congressman must pay for any new program out of personal funds until they can point out where it says in the constitution that said program is authorized.

[ClearCase_guy]

The $500 will go along nicely with the $40,000 of debt the child gets for being born.

Uhhhhhhh. That would be $40,500 of debt. ;)

[rockinqsranch]

This story was posted from another source earlier this morning, and look at the difference between the two stories on this if you will please. Here’s the link to the earlier story:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288720/posts

[PeterPrinciple]

Your checkbook = Schumers checkbook. Where the HELL do these a$$holes think this money is coming from?

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This is pretty creative, got to hand it to our politicians. You issue a us savings bond for $500 and now the govt has $500 to spend. Excellent PR for your socialist government.