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Originally Posted by Lisa GT

Well, if you can't afford it, don't do it and then whine about not having enough money to have your cake and eat it too. If you want 4 kids, make sure your income justifies being able to have and raise them properly. If the money's not there, then I guess people should adjust accordingly and stop squirting out babies they can't feed, insure, or educate. My parents would probably have liked to have had more children. I'm an only child because my parents wanted to be sure that they would be able to provide for me the way they felt they should.

We all want different things in life. Somebody's else's desire to have 4 kids isn't any more important to then than my desire to have nice things is to me. I didn't want a bunch of my own kids to support so why the hell would I want to have to contribute to the support of other people's kids? I don't yearn for a bunch of kids, but I would like to be driving a $90K beamer; however, since it's not reasonably within my means at this time I needed to set that notion aside for now. When the 'gubment' contributes to my new 650i convertible, I'll probably feel a lot nicer about welfare, WIC, ADC, foodstamps, etc.

If it didn't affect me excessively and what I take home, I really wouldn't care what they do, but since my family's income has to be pillaged (for about thirty percent of what we make) to make up for those people's failure to plan and make wise decisions, yeah that infuriates me.

see now, the fault in your logic is that you expect Americans to be fiscally responsible. what are you thinking? act first, think about consequences later! that is the American way!

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