re: Should companies be mandated to pay for maternity leave?

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Poor people shouldn't have kids. I get it. That's what you think liberty is. I disagree.

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Liberty has nothing to do with having kids.

I ask you this what kind od a responsible caring person will bring a child into the world when they can barely afford to support themselves and the children they may already have? I say its a pretty worthless motherfricker. Its pretty selfish to have a kid when you can't properly care for it. I will add its not my neighbors responsibility to pay taxes to support the proper care and well being of a child that hasn't been born or conceived yet. Now if someone already has a kids and a family and they fall on hard times I am for helping them any and all ways possible and we have social safety nets for this. But it should be a crime for someone to keep spitting out children when they don't have to ability to financially support them. Not saying poor people shouldn't have kids, but why would you want to bring a child into the world when you know ahead of time it will be a struggle for that child. Seems cruel and unusual punishment to me. But I guess democrats just don't care about people, all they care about is breeding a whole new generation of voters.

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I grew up poor, but we never once took the free lunch, welfare, and other bullshite that is just so freely handed out these days. We had more pride in ourselves than that, and that is something you will never understand.

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Similar situation here. Back story, My Dad always a had a good job and made a decent living and we weren't rich by any means but we had a fairly new home and a nice car ( early 70's ) well my mom developed breasts cancer and it wasn't found until it spread. At this time few if any insurance plans covered catastrophic cancer situations to my knowledge. Now Dad could have sent her to charity in new Orleans but wanted her to have the best care possible so he payed out of pocket what the insurance at the time didn't. Again I don't know the degrees to which they covered if any at the time. Well you can imagine how much the bills came to. Needless to say it wrecked us financially. Ended up having to sell our home and all of that. No crying or bitching about life being unfair and the man fricking over working people. It was what it was, that's life and you attack situations head on. As a result I grew up poor during my high school years. Was it fun, hell no. But was I really poor? not really I had a roof over my head and still got to enjoy growing up and it taught me the value of the difference between wanting something and needing something. As a result when I built my home I went modest with even though I could afford a lot more. Why? because you never know what life will throw at you and its best to be prepared for the worst. I never want to be dependent on the government to support me or mine.