'Poor People Do Not Deserve to Have Children'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/01-5
Millions of Americans who would go hungry without SNAP, nearly half of whom are children. (Photo: EdVote.org)
I received a phone call Thursday from someone who had seen Demos’ Vice President, Heather McGhee, on MSNBC talking about why people need food stamps. The caller stated, “People who are poor do not deserve to have children. I’ve seen these people with 1,2, 5 children. If you can’t afford to feed them, don’t have them.”
It’s easy to dismiss this as the ravings of a lunatic but the truth is that this mentality is all too pervasive, even though it is repulsive both as a matter of public policy and as a moral value.
First, let’s start with the basics. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), referred to often as food stamps, doesn’t just serve people with children. More than one-quarter of SNAP recipients live in households with seniors or people with disabilities. The recent growth in SNAP spending is because we were in a recession and in a recession, people lose their sources of income. When they lose income, they find it hard to buy things, like food. SNAP actually works exactly as a safety-net program should: It provides assistance to people who are on the brink and prevents them from falling over the edge.
Second, contrary to the hysteria around it, there is very little fraud or mismanagement of SNAP benefits. In fact, SNAP has one of the most rigorous quality control systems of any public benefit program. As for fraud, as Matt Bruenig wrote, it’s not something we should worry about. Despite this, people refuse to let go of the image of the Cadillac Welfare Queen in all her racially tinged glory. There is an ugly undercurrent of racism in much of the misinformation and fear-mongering around public benefits.
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the tea partiers wet dream. 
they see in their mind's eye are Reagan's mythical "welfare queens" (Blacks, of course, and now also "illegulls"
, not White children. That's where the disconnect lies, even though it flies in the face of stats. But, of course, those stats are "biased" under this Black president who, they believe, has the power to fudge the numbers. 
These people are beyond help, and "news" outlets like CNN, NBC, ABC, Fox "News" Channel and their far-reaching affiliates at the local and state level - as well as corporate-funded HateRadio - work very hard to keep those lies alive.
"We don't want you to have access to birth control and we're going to support the concept that men are superior to you and you must subject yourself to their desires for you. When you 'submit' yourself, without birth control, and you get pregnant, don't stop the pregnancy, but when your pregnancy is finished, F**ck your kids. Let their lazy asses starve"
People are so worried that some individual in their community might get something from the government that "they don't deserve." Yet those same people don't care about corporate welfare. I guess it's easier to hate & blame someone you can put a face on. ???
while collecting their own (substantial) farm subsidies. 
Seriously fucked up fuckers, they are!
Response to gollygee (Reply #25)
On one hand, yes, I wish people would think things through better for their kids' sake.
On the other hand, given even the worst case scenario of anything in the "having a(nother) kid" department, it really takes so little money to feed, clothe, house, etc our fellow citizens who find themselves unable to do so themselves - especially in comparison to the cost of endless wars, rewarding corrupt businesses with bales of cash, etc - and beside it being the right and decent thing to do, we get the return of healthier, better educated members of society who are more likely to contribute in positive ways.
So yeah, I can put on my judgeypants when I see the tear-jerk story about the homeless family having their 10th child, but I know the right thing to do is feed their kids. And maybe give the parents some free BC if they want it 
