State Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie had announced that he may have a way to help end multigenerational welfare families: pay women on welfare $1000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied. Since it is voluntary, he insists that it is not eugenics. It’s friendlier. More like Y’allgenics.
LaBruzzo warns that “We’re on a train headed to the future and there’s a bridge out. And nobody wants to talk about it.” Well, they are talking now.
LaBruzzo has objected that welfare recipients are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent people and that society cannot handle that trend.
One newspaper article quotes him as saying that the legislature might also explore tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children.
Of course, that would mean that those guys at AIG and the investment companies would procreate while receiving hundreds of billions in federal subsidies. The question is whether that sets us up for a growing number of corporate progeny bankrupting businesses and receiving federal handouts from generation to generation.
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BTW Mespo–could you please explain to me what’s compassionate or intelligent about characterizing the populace of an entire state as stupid?
Wow, only me to blame for posting a blog comment. That’s pretty incredible. As far as I’m concerned, that bailout never should have happened. In the free market, bad companies should fail and pave the way for oppurtunities for success on the part of more responsible businesses. As to proving your conundrum–I doubt it seeing as I made a above a 170 on my LSAT. I’m sorry that you are so insecure about your own intellectual abilities that you feel the need to insult the intelligence of anyone who dares to disagree with you. Anyway, yankee doodle dudder, I was quoting Milton Friedman- get it straight.
John Galt:
“Why should welfare recipients benefit while the taxpayers providing the benefits get nothing.Nobody is forcing them to put themselves in a position to need welfare. This is America. Work hard, exercise self control, and get an education. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, so let’s pass a little of the cost of welfare to the cause.
Also, welfare recipients should lose the right to vote while receiving benefits. The fox should not guard the henhouse, and politicians should not buy votes with the money of hard-working, honest Americans.
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Ok there John Smith but there will be lots of bankers disenfranchised after that 700 billion dollar bailout,and they’ll have only you to blame. Wow, aren’t counter-examples fun, and thanks for proving my conundrum! I like yours too.
I absolutely agree. But don’t forget about the Queen (her old ass) and her welfare receiving decendants. That entire royal linage that gets welfare money by ripping off Africa and the Caribbean.
“It’s just a geographic phenomenon known as the inverse intelligence/compassion conundrum usually stated as the farther one migrates south the lower the mean intelligence and the higher one’s tolerance for the suffering of others.”
I have another one for you mespo- the large ballsack-straight-talking conundrum. You guessed it the further you are from the South, the less you get of each.(Wow, aren’t blanket generalities fun)
Why should welfare recipients benefit while the taxpayers providing the benefits get nothing.Nobody is forcing them to put themselves in a position to need welfare. This is America. Work hard, exercise self control, and get an education. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, so let’s pass a little of the cost of welfare to the cause.
Also, welfare recipients should lose the right to vote while receiving benefits. The fox should not guard the henhouse, and politicians should not buy votes with the money of hard-working, honest Americans.
Of course, what do I know-I’m from about as far South as it gets.I wish the Yankees, with their infinite compassion (to say nothing of their humility!) would swoop up some these welfare recipients. You love ’em so much, you deal with ’em.
I have a better idea.
Let’s pay “professional” politicians a $1000 a piece to not only get fixed, but to get a real education as well. Hell, let’s pay ’em $100,000 a piece.
It’d be worth it to clean up the gene pool. However, I have no illusions that this would increase the average IQ of politicians. Especially after this last week’s activity.
And Bob? That’s just cruel. Funny, but cruel.
rafflaw:
Right you are and who says they’re unrelated. I never heard of a hurricane hitting Chicago or Minneapolis. Did you? Maybe a corollary: the stupid/turbulent parallel, perhaps?
It is hard to argue against your points. That force of nature is more powerful than the hurricanes that have pummelled New Orleans and the Gulf area.
rafflaw:
It is, it truly is. It has given us one at least one President and scores of sexual perverts masquerading as congressmen. A powerful force of nature, indeed.
The inverse intelligence/compassion conundrum sounds impressive!
It’s just a geographic phenomenon known as the inverse intelligence/compassion conundrum usually stated as the farther one migrates south the lower the mean intelligence and the higher one’s tolerance for the suffering of others. It’s very old news, so why be surprised? Just hope for the day they apply sterilization to the stupid. That would have the populace up in arms in Louisiana!!
rafflaw,
With a few brackets here and there to alter the wording for your specific needs, I’m sure you’ll be able insult the most annoying and ignorant opponents on a Don Rickles level.
Bob,Esq.
Good quote from Justice Holmes!
I often use this as a stock reply to a rabid right winger too stupid to realize the idiocy of his position; the zinger being a comment that it’s still good law.
BUCK v. BELL, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.
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“We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 , 25 S. Ct. 358, 3 Ann. Cas. 765. Three generations of imbeciles are enough. [274 U.S. 200, 208]”
Jill,
Of course the voluntary that I am talking about is the Army kind of volunteering!
rafflaw,
That is an excellent proposal! It should also apply to all the top managment at any firm requesting money from the tax payers and the administration personnel responsible for handing out the money. As you say, it’s all voluntary!
Jill,
I agree that if this type of nonsense is allowed in Louisiana, then it should be a requirement that all Male legislators who vote for it must have a “voluntary” vasectomy and all female legislators who vote for it must have a “voluntary” tube tying procedure.
Worse yet, this plan would increase competetion for legacy spots at Harvard, Yale, Princeton etc.
3L, great points!
3L,
Maybe he’s just being realistic; how many men do you know that would get a vasectomy for $1000 minus whatever the operation costs? Although that plan might be better for the economy, sales of large guns, trucks, and sports cars would all sky rocket.
The best part is that he thinks the women should get their tubes tied, but G-d forbid the men get vasectomies or (gasp!) birth control is made available at a low cost to those who want it. He should remind people that it’s only all right for unmarried teenagers in Louisiana to procreate if they can afford it (perhaps they are on a hit Nickelodeon show?).