<p>collegeinusa, none of your posts indicates even a remote familiarity with the system of assistance for poor children. Which I suppose is commendable, since you have not needed to avail yourself of it; good for you. But your premises are pretty much 100% wrong.</p>
<p>Cash assistance to poor women with children is very limited, and comes with many, many strings attached involving mandatory participation in job search and training programs, and acceptance of employment. “Male kids who are impregnating these girls” ARE liable for the costs – it’s just difficult to collect from them if they don’t have jobs, or are in prison, and the fact that they have debts that far exceed their ability to pay is hardly a strong incentive for them to improve their behavior. </p>
<p>I have no idea what you think the right thing to do is: Rip children from their mothers? Let the children starve and die? Forced abortions? More prisons, and more money spent on them?</p>
<p>Or . . . why don’t we simply spend money on the one program that has been proven not to work – abstinence education? Oh, we do that! It’s mandated by law.</p>
<p>I don’t think these are easy problems, and I don’t have a simple solution. You seem to think there is a solution, but I have no idea what that is.</p>
<p>And your assumption that President Obama has some great responsibility here that he is shirking is based, as far as I can tell, entirely on his skin color. That does not reflect well on you, or make your arguments seem any stronger.</p>
<p>I have no foggy idea as I did not receive any funds from system of assistance for poor children why beacuse Ime and my hubby were grad students and have our first kid. Me and my hubby also worked in fast food center to suport our family. One waited and read at home withkid and second one went to work in lab and vice versa.</p>
<p>While living in downtown, after getting a job Ia lso taught math in my neighhoord school as many were chinese, indonasians, sauides, kuwaitis, pakistans, indians, phillipinos, kenyans, nigerains etc. were attening this school.</p>
<p>Most of these families came to USA with virtually no money in their pockets but knew by going to school and getting better education is only way to scape out of povrety. Many of my rfiends and our family included were ppor in our home countries and came here to study to get better life.</p>
<p>Where did I say it in my post. I said that government need to give these kids a warning and then stop funding and supporting this kind of behaviour. Tell other kids that if they go this path they will be responsible for thier own actions and supporting thier kids. I know government provides, WIC, give money for housing, give health insuarnce and give money. If this transale into $50000 in life time, it is better to spend this money in prevention. Otherwise we will keep talking for next 1000 years or when taxpayers run out of money which ever come first.</p>
<p>He ran on the platform that he will fix this country. I would have expected the same from McCain. I will expect that any president currnet or in future solve problem and take leadership position by stating facts and not what public wwants to hear that no one has to pay but get goodies. That is not real. </p>
<p>If you call me a racist well you can call everyone racist but still not solving problems. And I find it offensive but laugh at you thaty ou can imagine whatever you want. You can call that people are calling Obama based on skin color: I thought he has 50% color white and 50% black. he is kind of like me my skin color yellow. :)</p>
<p>I do not have statistics but if a kid is born and get $100 in food per month, 50 dollars in health coverage per monthand $50 for other living expanses per month. For 18 years it translates into aroun 31200 dollars . Then kid goes to school ang education expanses are $10,00 per year for 12 years cost $120,000. Thus these kids who are not getting pregannt and doing pregrenenacy while as a kid are not asking taxpayers to support $150,000 per child. This is really big tax break the non preganant segamnet of this school is providing to tax payers. We need to thank them publicly for their wise choices. They should be commened publicly for doin what is right.</p>
<p>I am not white and I see everone in my liberal frieend calling everone racist on very first notion. But when time come to ask for money they do not mind my racist money. </p>
<p>I find it ridiculous that no one wants to punish these kids behavious for making wrong choices. When we will be able to break this cycle of poverty and misery for these kids who are bright and have intellegence like mine or your or any one of our kids?</p>
<p>I would like a public forum where thsese things are debated and how to solve these problems and find solutions that can be implement to solve problems. It is btter to debate these issues and then followed by a decison, not what current politican ( democrat or republican ) try to do and throw under the carpet and think future congressman, senators and presdient will solve. Time is not tomorow, it is now and that is what Presdient Obama ran on this platform. That is why people took courage and voted to elect a black/white President. I find it frustating that last president Bush screwed us royally and now we are getting same shaft in political decision? Where will it end? Who will pay for it all?</p>
<p>I am waiting for him to fix even one thing out of 100 or so big promises he made. I am waiting him to be not in the pocket of ACORN and not in the pocket of Goldman scahs and AIG :)</p>
<p>Bush made stupid decsions but at least he took a stand agisnt Republican and Democrat congress, I see Obama not taking any stand on any issue and going against the congress, he leaves everything to Congress and wants to rubber stamp their decsions. That is the way we get $750 billion in pet projects in stimulus bill. :)</p>
<p>And the march of America to a 3rd world economy continues at breakneck pace. I think the past 12 months have even surpassed my tremendously negative predictions. Buckle up people, it’s gonna be fun!</p>
I expect one of those hope & change speeches where he makes all those inner city kids perform at MIT academic levels and start having wholesome relationships in marriages. Oh wait, nevermind, the march to the Idiocracy continues.</p>
<p>“Moreover, communities must begin to stigmatize this behavior as it has given rise to a growing parasitic class economically, with fewer and fewer productive people to pay for it all.”</p>
<p>I agree with the above quote and I don’t think it’s just the lower class that no longer stimatizes it. </p>
<p>As for the post upthread that said the highest teenage pregnancy rate ever was in the 1940’s, how many of those teenagers were married before pregnancy? I bet a heck of a lot more than now. If the unmarrriage teenage pregnancy rate was higher in the 1940’s than now, I’d like to see the source of that info.</p>
<p>Do you mean to tell me that Obama has been in office for nine whole months and still hasn’t stemmed the tide of teen pregnancy in America? :eek: :rolleyes:</p>