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    The ever-present football-player rapistHamilton Nolan
    6/12/15 11:29am

    Children continue to be the worst financial decision most people can make.

    Keep it in your pants until you’re in your late 30s and have saved up enough of a buffer to keep food on the table even when lean times arrive. It’s cruel to bring children into the world when you can’t guarantee that you can support them.

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      GrilledCheeseonSourdoughThe ever-present football-player rapist
      6/12/15 11:38am

      Be prepared for “can only rich people have kids?” comments....

      Bout to get crushed by the folks here.

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      JonezBeechyThe ever-present football-player rapist
      6/12/15 11:39am

      I hate to bring culture into it, but honestly that’s what it is. So many of these people come from homes and neighborhoods where it’s just fine and dandy and normal to have kids when you’re like 19.

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    MarylandinexileHamilton Nolan
    6/12/15 11:31am

    The fact that a large portion of the American public looks down on those on Welfare & other social assistance programs is depressing case of cognitive dissonance. Considering almost every facet of the American economy is subsidized by the government. Shit the government created the middle class.

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      GrilledCheeseonSourdoughMarylandinexile
      6/12/15 11:37am

      The general public does not have an issue with welfare and social assistance for the short term. It’s when you have generations of a family (first story) living off public assistance... yeah that’s a real problem.

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      ThidrekrGrilledCheeseonSourdough
      6/12/15 11:47am

      But generational poverty is a very real thing. “Good jobs” are often a question of having the right connections, not qualifications. It’s also why mass underemployment for millennials should worry people; this will just snowball further into the future.

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    WhyitsFartingHamilton Nolan
    6/12/15 12:07pm

    “Stop having children” is the liberal analogue to “Stop having sex”.

    Both are trivially true - if you don’t have sex, you eliminate the possibility for bad outcomes; if you don’t have children you eliminate the responsibility for dependents. Easy peasy.

    Humans aren’t going to stop doing either. It’s not because they’re immoral or irresponsible or stupid. It’s because we’re human.

    http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehe…

    Hormonal birth control has a 9% typical use failure rate.

    Barrier methods have about a 20% failure rate.

    http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contr_…

    About 90% of women at risk for an unplanned pregnancy are currently using birth control.

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      The Homework OgreWhyitsFarting
      6/12/15 12:40pm

      “Just be a perfectly logical robot at all times and never make a decision not borne of rational self-interest and you won’t have any problems I don’t see what’s so hard about that.”

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      ConnertheCatWhyitsFarting
      6/12/15 1:54pm

      Interesting that you chose to avoid mentioning far more guaranteed methods of BC - such as an IUD or Sterilization.

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    GrilledCheeseonSourdoughHamilton Nolan
    6/12/15 11:36am

    First story, (lady blaming republicans), probably doesn’t realize that most major metro’s with high poverty are run by liberals.

    And she touts the need for food stamps, but she grew up on food stamps, and is raising her kids on them. How are they HELPING her? She said the recession hurt her and her family. She left out what they did for a living prior to the recession.

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      c'est-a-direGrilledCheeseonSourdough
      6/12/15 2:43pm

      You know that social benefits don’t come from the municipality, right?

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      GrilledCheeseonSourdoughc'est-a-dire
      6/12/15 2:52pm

      Who said they did? My point is that the same cities complaining about social justice and an unfair system are run by liberals, who are supposed to fix that. And they aren’t just recently run by liberals, it’s decades of failures.

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    TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Hamilton Nolan
    6/12/15 11:37am

    I don’t see the need for all this nonsense. I inherited my dignity from my father, along with an excellent education and a slot at one of our nation’s top law firms. If these people don’t have dignity, that’s not my fault, it’s their parents’ fault for failing to provide for their children. Dignity, like refrigerators and air conditioning, are luxuries better reserved for those who have earned them, and their deserving heirs.

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      theunseenoneTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      6/12/15 12:15pm

      I can’t watch that video so I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. :(

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      ZippitydontTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      6/12/15 2:12pm

      Please tell me you’re being sarcastic. Please.

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    BrianGriffinHamilton Nolan
    6/12/15 11:43am

    Usually these stories make me feel feels for those in need.

    The second story, though...nope, you’ve got to be kidding me. $2000/mth, tax free, for three people is more than most people with jobs earn. (Plus living rent free in the shelter?) Yes, it may be hard living and working with bi-polar disorder, but there are plenty of individuals who do it.

    The rest of the accounts are pretty heart wrenching, though.

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      asdfjlsdfkjelkjfaldskjflBrianGriffin
      6/12/15 11:49am

      Yeah and on top of it all shes spending like 8 percent her monthly budget on illegal smokes. Sorry lade don’t feel bad for you.

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      alisonsylviaBrianGriffin
      6/12/15 12:29pm

      Yeah, the second story did not exactly encourage sympathy. Come on, admitting you drop $150 a month on cigarettes when you’re on public assistance? Jesus, if you’re on the dole and you can’t quit smoking for the obvious and huge financial benefits then do it for YOUR TWO INFANT CHILDREN. Ugh.

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    BlatheringHamilton Nolan
    6/12/15 2:20pm

    The lawyer’s comment mirrors my own lawyering experience with the poor. While many would love to say they don’t have to be criminal masterminds and will insert a dog whistle “low animal cunning” motif...the people I deal with are barely getting by.

    And you know what happens when you have parents with no education, no job skills and few resources? You get kids in the same situation. Intergenerational poverty and dependence isn’t a beautiful scam. It’s a failure of our society to deal with root causes of poverty.

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      kc2775Blathering
      6/12/15 2:38pm

      My lawyering experience says if people are gaming any system, it’s the tax system.

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    KREET-NHamilton Nolan
    6/12/15 5:55pm

    I tried to write a comment but it turned into an essay and then a brief rant about the Fed and then some questions about our future... Read it here: http://kreet-n.kinja.com/i-ve-been-brok…

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      opiumsmabytchHamilton Nolan
      6/12/15 3:10pm

      I think that the Republicans who are going for all the new restrictions should try just a few days of what it’s like

      That’ll be the day....

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        pennywisedollarfoolishHamilton Nolan
        6/12/15 12:12pm

        1. 4 kids = 0 sympathy

        2. Visit a methadone clinic. I’ve typed and deleted a novel’s worth of anger at what these people get for being criminal scum, while I’m punished for working and paying my own way for my habit/treatment. They are all on disability with free housing and medical and EBT which they cash in at the bodega for booze/crack. They, who spend their prime working years in prison paying nothing into the system and come out to a decent life for doing nothing. 28 year olds in perfect health on disability, $2000 a month for life


        My father just died 2 months ago, worked his whole life, did everything by the book as far as applying for state medical insurance/disability payments, and got declined. Literally, prison is the fast track to an easy life in CT- I don’t know how, their parole officers set them up with this shit maybe?

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          c'est-a-direpennywisedollarfoolish
          6/12/15 2:44pm

          lol

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