Jay Honeck wrote:

Best of all, according to NPR being on "welfare" has been stigmatized
once again, even in the inner cities, where it had become a
multi-generational way of life. People are ashamed of being on the
public dole, and are working their way out of poverty, instead of
Jonesing when their checks were late.

Wow, I really don't see that in my area of the country. AT ALL. What I
see are hundreds, even thousands of people who moved here after a
certain natural disaster and never went home. They're using public aid,
and don't seem to want that to change.

Childhood immunizations. There are no children turned away without
immunization anywhere in America. There *are*, however, millions of
criminally stupid parents who don't GET their children immunized.

Me personally, I wish I hadn't been immunized. I'm not sure, when I was
a child, that vaccines were safe. We certainly didn't know as much as
we do now. I'm all about risk awareness, and a baby can't choose, and
parents are blinded by, well, paranoia. My mother still thinks I'm
going to die every time I get in a plane, so would one really expect her
to research vaccines? Nope. Course, I don't remember bring up
immunizations, so I'll stop there.

Honestly, you have to pass a test to drive a car, but there is no
"minimum requirement" for reproducing. Imagine what a lovely world it
could be, if only some basic skills were required of every human before
they had children?

As someone smarter than many people in the world, I say yes. As a
libertarian, I unfortunately have to say no. Reproduce as you like,
just don't use my money to take care of the results.