Reply #45: I think my biggest problem with your attitude is that old "personal responsibility"

[Kali]

BS. Sure some people make bad decisions and maybe deserve some sort of karmic punishment for that, but the rest (probably the most) are victims of circumstance BEYOND THEIR CONTROL.

Personally I would much rather help pay for "fraudulent" health insurance than a lot of other things we, as taxpayers are asked to help with. Somebody making more money than me but caring for 4 or 5 other individuals doesn't make me envious. I can grasp the fact that that income is being used to care for more than one person, and I can see well beyond the over-simplified rationalization that they should have know better when they "chose" to have so many kids.

I have more kids than I planned to have. I took in my fucked-up sister's kid. We qualify for all sorts of benefits, but I have only accepted emergency medical help a couple of times, so you can use me as an example to help balance that imaginary greed of poor over-populated families you seem to have.

Life sometimes doesn't go the way you plan. Does that mean you should not have kids because "something" bad might happen to you financially down the road? Maybe we should just kill ourselves now, because you never know - something bad might happen in the future and we might need some kind of help. Help that some other person doesn't qualify for. OH MY GOD! Stop living now!
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