Jeager,
What you said shocked me, but with thought it really does ring more true than ever. I recently read an article that went into this, but it was focused mostly on the fallacy of black poverty. A few details:
* Black families with 2 parents where both parents work full time jobs have a poverty rate of 2%. TWO PERCENT!
* 8% of black married couples live in poverty
* 46% of single black women with children live in poverty.
So 1 in 50 black working couples with children are in poverty. But 1 in 2 black single women with kids are in poverty. And I'll bet the stat's are similar regardless of race: white, hispanic, asian, etc. Two really simple lessons: 1) WAIT until you're married to have kids and 2) get a JOB.
NOW here is the shocking statement that will blow away our liberal readers. CANCELLING 95% OF WELFARE WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE POVERTY NUMBERS.
Chew on that idea. Really think about it. Many women have kids out of wedlock because it's a culture to pop them out & live on the dole. They're perfectly happy living in poverty and not working. And they're raising the next generation to do the same which will cost 10 times more. My thought is to cut the cord. It can be to all at once, or weaned over a matter of months, or cut off from any future applications, any of these can work. Now we'll have to get past the "oh poor me" stories for a while. But when you take away the carrot you change behavior. Women will learn that not having kids will be to their benefit. And guys will learn that they have responsibilities that cost a whole lot.
Women really can decide not to have kids until their lives are stable and they can support them. Women are brighter than guys in general. And there can be other consequences. A woman pops out kids but won't care for them? OK, the state will take the kids into foster, AND spay the mother. Animal shelters do this all the time. Now they don't have to do this on day one, but maybe on the 2nd kid? Or 6 months of help then do it? Or she can leave the country & not return (without getting spayed).
All this sounds very cruel. But an economic collapse will be much worse.
It is true, the cord should be cut and it won't be pretty. But that would be true freedom. True freedom is living with the choices you made.