On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:03:56 -0500, Emily
wrote:
Well, I'll be dead before that happens.

Personally, I haven't exactly scheduled my death yet and was kind of
thinking on being around for the next few hundred years or so... Of
course, my body might have different plans...

The problem right now is that people have more kids
than they can afford...but that wouldn't be a problem
if the government would stop paying for them.

It's a twofold problem... On one hand, the government is giving them
positive motivation for spitting out numerous kids and no negative
motivation to act responsibly... On the other hand, the people who
tend to have these many kids are often those of lesser intelligence in
our society and it is unreasonable to think that of of these genes
we're going to end up wth kids of greater intelligence... Of course,
there are probably exceptions to this rule, but if one was to treat it
as a generalization, one would not be terribly in error...

Ok, I'll agree on that one. Unfortunately, as someone already pointed
out, bad things happen when we try to limit the number or type of
children that people have.

Yeah, next thing you know, we will have college educated people
working behind the cash registers at McDonalds... Hell, we might even
get someone who works there that doesn't ask you if you want fries
with your order when your order was already just an order of fries...
Damn, next thing ya' know, they'll be able to operate a register with
*works* on it instead of *pictures*...