Welfare Should NOT Be an Aphrodisiac

Representative John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, addressed the pink elephant in the room Tuesday by announcing that he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their fallopian tubes tied.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/labruzzo_sterilization_plan_fi.html
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/09/25/tubal.ligations.for.poor.cnn?iref=24hours
As I read the LaBruzzo article this morning, I could not help but think back to those Susan Powter late night infomercials, the ones that pitched the catch phrase “Stop the Insanity!” Finally, a voice of reason emerges from the altruistic appeasing masses and announces that welfare recipients should not be procreating; if a person does not have the finances to feed and nurture a child, then DO NOT have a child. This sounds like common sense, but if that were a given then why does the U.S. have so many third and fourth generation welfare families? The answer is simple, as a country we are fostering the weak and bridling the strong; a recipe for evolutionary digression. LaBruzzo’s plan would attack this crisis at the core, reducing the numbers of the overpopulating poor. America was founded on the principles of capitalism, not philanthropy; I am a fan of man and his achievements, but investing in men that have no ambition to better themselves nor contribute to the advancement of American society, is just bad business. LaBruzzo’s plan is an alarm; the sleepwalk must come to an end and the American people must reconcile that no good can come of a third or fourth generation welfare investment.