Why do we buy formula for people on the dole?

Some are born premature and never were breastfed. Social and cultural issues tied to breast feeding exist and another reason women do not do it. Pediatrics is hard because you have to err on side of what is going to ensure the best outcome for the child and if formula is the answer then it's likely cheaper than a hospitalization due to dehydrationnor malnutrition.

Some babies are able to latch on the nipple.

It happens

Because it's not the baby's fault if a mother is poor or uneducated or just lazy. Also, a lot of women on WIC do have jobs. Pumping & storing breastmilk between shifts as a cashier somewhere can't be easy.

We waste money on a lot of stupid shite in this country. I'm not going to make feeding babies my hill to die on. I'd rather we start pushing IUDs on poor people so they have an effective long-term method of birth control that leaves nothing to human error.

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So if the mom's a piece of shite and won't feed her baby...why not just take the damn baby from her

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I fully expect you to be at the front of the line to be a foster parent when we do this.

Some of the mothers won't be able to feed their child for whatever reason if they didn't have formula. While I hate that these people live off of my income tax, I don't want to starve a baby. We should just sterilize people on government welfare

You'd probably end up subsidizing a lot more in the long run if you forced the alcoholic crackhead mom to breastfeed.

We should just abort them all. Free, quick abortions for everyone. It will save us money and resources in the long run.

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So just so I'm clear... you don't want the government to have to pay for formula, but you're OK with the government taking a child into CPS and all the costs associated with feeding, clothing, sheltering, and placing that child?

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Man, what I'm talking about is a symptom of a larger endemic social issue.

If you have a large number of people who can't or won't provide for their offspring, odds are extremely high that their offspring will repeat that downward spiral of a pattern.

So, in the long run, you'll end up paying for their housing and food and clothes and education and in many cases incarceration.

You'll deal with the violence and the blight and the crime that comes from a broken system of households that largely don't care.

And thus you have kids that don't care. And it bleeds over to every facet of their lives.


You pluck that seed out of the bad soil before it has a chance to root and put it somewhere it can thrive...and it will bear fruit.

You show it a better way and remove the negative influences around it and replace them with order and education and you'll have a crop that will better society.

Right now we have blighted fields, essentially. From the ghettos to the barrios to the meth-ridden trailer parks, you have cancers that are allowed to grow.

They make more cancer. And anything good that might sprout from there is corrupted before it has a chance.

And we all pay for it in the long run. Because these seeds grow to weeds in a blink. Thorns that skitter into even well manicured gardens and snuff the life out of fruit bearing plants, spreading bad seeds as they go. And we spend money fighting them and trying to cut them back and keep them out.

But it doesn't have to be that way.

And of course this is a hypothetical, but imagine a place where these seeds are put to productive use. You'll start to choke the life out of the weed patches by not letting them have crop after crop of destruction, and you'll change the trajectory of their progeny by giving it positive purpose.

This is how you fix things without simply eradicating the weed patch and all that grows there.