TirithRR wrote:
What's wrong with paying a woman 1000 dollars to tie her tubes?
I mean, you aren't forcing them.
You do realize we're talking about very poor people, right? People on welfare. People who may not have other basic needs met due to lack of money. And this jackass is saying we should offer them $1000 to have near irreversible surgery to prevent them from having children.
One wonders if Tirith would also support allowing the poor to sell, say, a kidney. I mean why not? You aren't forcing them. Or what about an eye? Don't really need both do you?
The male version of this surgery is cheaper, less invasive and reversible (although it is quite expensive) and thus should have been a much more natural target for bozos like this guy to aim for...but of course he goes after the women.
Lastly, I can't believe this guy brought up illegal immigrants. He's talking about American citizens not working and thus costing us taxes to help them. Then it is the fault of the illegal immigrants?
Yet another sign that we don't have two political parties in the US. We have one which deals with reality and one that largely lives in a fantasy world.
I'm surprised Bush hasn't already appointed this guy to head a department.