Reply #17: "have to pay for the ones that end up on welfare"

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My freeper relatives love to gripe about that, too. It has been surprising, and not a little disappointing, to see so many people here take that up in the midst of the red/blue mania that has swept through this place like typhoid through a tenement.

Many of the problems named here, like teen pregnancy and divorce, are financial in nature. Anybody who think that these things are all determined by how a state voted in the most recent presidential election needs to pay a visit to rural California or central Pennsylvania, among many other places, and see how many millions of people in this country still live.