winterene (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} winterene) wrote,@ 2009-09-14 22:26:00 |
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There's Something Stupid About Mary
http://wamu.org/programs/dr/09/09/14.ph
If you actually listen to the whole report, I point out one thing that is never stated. As bad as poverty is today, in 20 years, it is likely to be as bad or worse given the history of humanity so far. However, the poverty that will exist in a generation can be decimated by realizing that poverty starts with childbirth and then taking logical action.
I'm too tired to rant, so I'll keep this short. There is a caller towards the end (at timepoint 39:30 in the podcast), a single mother named Mary who elicits sympathy from the host with her sob story about not getting callbacks on interviews and not being able to pay the rent for herself and her three children. Fuck Mary. She doesn't deserve sympathy. She claims to be educated, and if that is true, then she bears the brunt of the blame for having had three children with having first secured $1.5 million ($500 grand per child, an estimate based on a calculator at babycenter.com). Assuming the children are under 18, she must have had then after 1992, and any supposedly educated person at that time should have been able to predict that it is getting harder and harder for most people to earn a living for themselves and their children.
Of course, most people are not educated, so their is no point in blaming them for having unsecured children. The responsibility must fall on the government to prevent people from having children without having the funds for a proper upbringing, simply because the government is most capable of doing so.
http://wamu.org/programs/dr/09/09/14.ph
If you actually listen to the whole report, I point out one thing that is never stated. As bad as poverty is today, in 20 years, it is likely to be as bad or worse given the history of humanity so far. However, the poverty that will exist in a generation can be decimated by realizing that poverty starts with childbirth and then taking logical action.
I'm too tired to rant, so I'll keep this short. There is a caller towards the end (at timepoint 39:30 in the podcast), a single mother named Mary who elicits sympathy from the host with her sob story about not getting callbacks on interviews and not being able to pay the rent for herself and her three children. Fuck Mary. She doesn't deserve sympathy. She claims to be educated, and if that is true, then she bears the brunt of the blame for having had three children with having first secured $1.5 million ($500 grand per child, an estimate based on a calculator at babycenter.com). Assuming the children are under 18, she must have had then after 1992, and any supposedly educated person at that time should have been able to predict that it is getting harder and harder for most people to earn a living for themselves and their children.
Of course, most people are not educated, so their is no point in blaming them for having unsecured children. The responsibility must fall on the government to prevent people from having children without having the funds for a proper upbringing, simply because the government is most capable of doing so.
