Hello Bob,   
      
    LL>> Should welfare recipients be sterilized as a condition to   
    LL>> remain on welfare?  If so, who would pay for such a   
    LL>> procedure? Not even insurance companies provide such   
    LL>> coverage for working folks.  Conservatives seem to like the   
    LL>> idea, even going so far as to make it a new publicly-funded   
    LL>> government program ...   
      
    BK> Since those on welfare have tended to be on it for a reasonably   
    BK> short time over the last couple decades, and that long predates   
    BK> the 1995 welfare deform act,   
      
   It was 1996 when President Clinton signed it into law.   
      
    BK> it would be absurd to make such a permanent change for a temporary   
    BK> situation.   
      
   That temporary situation is usually a period of less than   
   two years.  But once sterilized, it won't matter if they get   
   back on welfare, as conservatives will have already gotten   
   what they wanted.   
      
   See how that works?  Conservatives never come out and tell   
   you exactly what they want.  At least in the South such folks   
   are more honest, with racists putting a confederate flag in   
   their front yard showing everybody what they think.   
      
    BK> OTOH, if you count everyone who get some benefit from the govt,   
    BK> then you have a setup for revolution.   
      
   Everybody wants to get a free lunch.  Not just you and me.   
   But how much in life is truly free?  And how much, if anything,   
   is anybody entitled to?   
      
   The way I look at things, the world owes me a living.  I tell   
   that to people, and they look at me cock-eyed.  But it's true.   
   The economy is for the person, not the other way around.   
      
    BK> Sterilization has, in the past, been a prescription for those   
    BK> not liked by those in power. Let that become law and you can see   
    BK> the revolution bloom.   
      
   Such ideas were popular in the USA in the days prior to and   
   during WWII.  When our soldiers returned home from Europe, we   
   had a change of heart and put those ideas of eugenics aside.   
      
   Strange how history works.  We gave Germans an idea.  Then   
   Germans used that idea to create a monster.  Then we bury our   
   idea and hope nobody notices.  And then somebody in America   
   digs it up and presents it as a new idea.   
      
   --Lee   
      
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