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I don't know exactly, but with six kids I imagine quite a bit. Also, it doesn't sound as if she's still making $15K -- I think that's what she made before quitting to do random sewing work at home (which she was free to do, since all the benefits were readily available to her). Even while making $15K, I expect that her benefits included housing subsidy (usually requires that the head of household pay 1/4 of their income towards rent, with the rest made up by the feds -- and a home big enough to meet federal requirements for six kids probably costs a lot more than 1/4 of $15K per year), Medicaid coverage for the kids and maybe for herself as well, and food stamps.

Needless to say, if you make $15K and refrain from having children, you're sh*t out of luck, and if you stop at one or two you'll get very little help. This is one of many reasons why I'm absolutely 100% pro-choice and in favor of public funding of abortions. The practice of using children as hostages to get money from people who work is leading us down the road to full-blown socialism at high speed (do you think ANY of those kids will vote for welfare cuts when they grow up?), and expecting totally irresponsible people to use contraceptives reliably is simply ludicrous. The best we can hope for is to get the message out to them that if they get pregnant, they have to get unpregnant fast (at public expense, since they won't have the cash handy, since they spent it all on clothes and booze), or their baby will be immediately and permanently confiscated the first time they ask for public assistance (mandatory sterilization at that point would be a good idea too, but I know I'm just dreaming on that one). If we don't give them the option of getting unpregnant fast, then we're heartless beasts for confiscating their innocent little children "just because their parents are poor", and they'll play this to the hilt at the next election, to get all their socialist candidates elected (none of whom will be anti-abortion, ironically).

"The practice of using children as hostages to get money from people who work is leading us down the road to full-blown socialism at high speed"

Better than going down the road to hell for killing babies.

Just pass a law, and make it CLEAR, that once you are on welfare, NONE of your benefits will EVER increase by so much as a dime, no matter how many more kids you have. Murdering unborn babies is not an answer to ANY problem.

many reasons why I'm absolutely 100% pro-choice and in favor of public funding of abortions.

I'm not ----he choices should be before the conception ----she could choose to keep her legs together once in a while or use some form of birth control. If she can't afford kids, then her other choice would be to put them up for adoption so that there would be some chance of them learning responsibility and how to hold onto a job. How does a 26 year old with so many small children even find the time to be out man-hunting? She apparently has the time and money for "dating" but can't manage to work because then she needs to watch her children.