Posted on 09/10/2013 11:38:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
That’s rather bad news because it not only tells us that poverty is ubiquitous, but that the birth rate is swinging deeper into its trenches, meaning more people carrying fewer people.
Or to put it another way, if you want a picture of the future, imagine a thousand Detroits being subsidized by ten thousand suburbs of government employees and those suburbs being subsidized by the printing presses of Washington.
According to researchers from the George Washington University (GWU) School of Public Health, in 2010, almost half of all births in the United States were paid for by Medicaid, and that rate is only going to go up. Medicaid was responsible for 48% of the 3.8 million births in 2010, an increase of 90,000 births from 2008, which was an 8% increase during that period.
In New York City in 2009, 76% of Hispanic births were covered by Medicaid, 70% of births in the black community were covered, and 31% of whites.
That’s our unsustainable future. Forget about the racial or class warfare politics. It’s simply economically unsustainable. The same process that is bankrupting cities will inevitably bankrupt the country.
Someone has to pay for that Medicaid. If the trajectory continues at this rate, there will be fewer people paying for more subsidies for more people. And not all the prattle about the 1 percent will change that.
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The same Hispanics that the amnesty crowd assures us will pay our SS and medicare?
We need more?
The ferals have all the time, fecundity, and welfare payments in kind in the world.
Why not procreate. It’s fun, it’s free, and maybe the kid will even love mommy! (Daddy sure won’t, he’ll be long gone.)
How many of those Hispanic births are to citizens?
Oops! Almost forgot:
Add a Kid, Add Welfare Payments!
It just keeps getting better and better!
Boy, for a party that became famous for saying, “It’s the economy, stupid!”, the Democrats sure seem stupid about the economy.
GOP pols are obviously not immune to magical thinking.
As I observed to a friend the other day, the only people who can afford to have children anymore are the ones on welfare.
Sad for everyone involved.
Give them a choice: birth control or not state assistance.
*They
Crap! That’s a lot of freeloading, future DemocRAT voters.
Stand em on their head and pack em full of redi-mix.
Look at the bright side — the makings of a heartwarming story of the anchor baby who grows up to be President.
48% of US Births Took Place at Poverty Level
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We all know the illegitimacy levels for blacks are about 70/80 percent. But nationwide - isn’t 48 percent pretty close to the illegitimacy levels of all births?
And yet - liberals don’t understand that illegitimacy, poverty, welfare dependency, etc. etc... all go hand in hand.
Those who pay their own way take steps to avoid multiple unplanned pregnancies or work harder to provide for THEIR own children.
And those who are on welfare can’t afford to get off of it.
Just as the Democrats wanted.
LBJ’s “War on Poverty”. Another war we started under the Democrats and looks like we are going to lose..
You know, this country is full of hard working young people of all races that are doing the right thing. They are raising the next generation even though it means driving old cars and skipping vacations. They are sacrificing to give their children a good education even though they still have to support the public education system that the takers use. Condemning people for having children is something that the leftists, the lazy, and the selfish do.
We're either going to have a full-on collapse or our standard of living is going to lower, very drastically.
I only see one fix to this and it's bloody ugly.
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