LaBruzzo wants to Pay You To Get Sterile!

[Shane for Wax]

www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/labruzzo_sterilization_plan_fi.html

Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.

Would you do it?

ETA: Just noticed this was old but it was posted where I wander like it was new, so if it has changed at all let me know.

[DeadpanDoubter]

Fuck yeah! I'm willing to bet I wouldn't be "eligible", though.

[Smurfette Principle]

Only a thousand dollars? Make it more worthwhile and we'll talk.

[DeadpanDoubter]

I'm wanting one anyway, so it's just a plus to me.

[Thejebusfire]

One thousand wouldn't even cover a semester of tuition.

[Smurfette Principle]

Jul 1, 2011 17:25:05 GMT -5 Thejebusfire said:

One thousand wouldn't even cover a semester of tuition.

For a family of five, one thousand is a couple months of groceries, tops. And considering gas and all that... not worth it.

[MaybeNever]

Another milestone in the race to the bottom, I guess. I'd like to see voluntary sterilization be universally available to adults, but this is insane.

I also note:

LaBruzzo said other, mainstream strategies for attacking poverty, such as education reforms and programs informing people about family planning issues, have repeatedly failed to solve the problem. He said he is simply looking for new ways to address it.

We have a decent idea of how to tackle poverty, but we have to actually, like, tax corporations and the wealthy, offer robust social welfare programs including nationalized health care, provide universal contraception (including abortions) and full sex education, implement Keynesian economics, and keep jobs in the country instead of outsourcing everything we can to India and China. Since no politician except maybe Bernie Sanders is remotely willing to actually suggest that instead of sterilizing the poor or shoveling the middle class into the gaping plutocrat maw of corporate America, no, our attempts to solve poverty won't fucking work.

Look at Scandinavia! Why do they have low levels of poverty and general prosperity, while we have rampant income disparity and a society that seems to be falling apart? It isn't those poor bitches having 26 kids. They're just a symptom.

[Smurfette Principle]

Jul 1, 2011 17:34:08 GMT -5 MaybeNever said:

Another milestone in the race to the bottom, I guess. I'd like to see voluntary sterilization be universally available to adults, but this is insane.

I also note:

LaBruzzo said other, mainstream strategies for attacking poverty, such as education reforms and programs informing people about family planning issues, have repeatedly failed to solve the problem. He said he is simply looking for new ways to address it.

We have a decent idea of how to tackle poverty, but we have to actually, like, tax corporations and the wealthy, offer robust social welfare programs including nationalized health care, provide universal contraception (including abortions) and full sex education, implement Keynesian economics, and keep jobs in the country instead of outsourcing everything we can to India and China. Since no politician except maybe Bernie Sanders is remotely willing to actually suggest that instead of sterilizing the poor or shoveling the middle class into the gaping plutocrat maw of corporate America, no, our attempts to solve poverty won't fucking work.

Look at Scandinavia! Why do they have low levels of poverty and general prosperity, while we have rampant income disparity and a society that seems to be falling apart? It isn't those poor bitches having 26 kids. They're just a symptom.

+1

Also, I'd like to draw parallels to the enforced sterilizations we had in this country up until the 70s.

[Oriet]

I'd gladly get my fallopian tubes tied. Not only do I not want kids, it'd mean they'd have to give me those parts first.

[Runa]

I'd sign up. I refuse to spawn and I'd be paid for doing something I want to anyways!

[SimSim]

At least they aren't doing forcibly this time, unlike the 1920s. Eugenics for the loss!

[gyeonghwa]

This will disproportionately affect women of color methinks. And why not offer it to upper and middle class women as well?

[Alyra]

I'd consider it. I could certainly use the money, but it wouldn't really go far. Maybe if they paid for the second half of my college.

[Mlle Antéchrist]

I'd rather see them funding education incentives and bringing schools in poorer areas up to par before trying something like this. Generational welfare is definitely an issue, but I'd be concerned that someone who desperately needs the money would agree to do it despite not really wanting to, and end up deeply regretting it later in life. $1000 really isn't that much money in the long term.

[wmdkitty]

Jul 1, 2011 17:54:02 GMT -5 Runa said:

I'd sign up. I refuse to spawn and I'd be paid for doing something I want to anyways!

THIS.