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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