NPR: Let’s Subsidize Really Bad Choices

NPR: Let’s Subsidize Really Bad Choices
NPR’s All Things Considered featured a woman who is, apparently, both selfish and stupid, imploring listeners to support her in her conscious choice to have three kids out of wedlock with three different men, two of whom are incarcerated felons. The woman, Jennifer Stepp, is an unattractive, overweight white female who calls herself a "victim of youthful optimism." Oh give me a break. She may not be too smart, but she knew what she was doing when she took her pants off for the only local guys who were willing to overlook her obesity. She says she kept thinking "the relationships would last," but I’d be willing to bet this woman never had an exclusive relationship with any one of the guys she slept with. In other words, she chose to deliberately get pregnant by the most expedient method possible: sleeping with ghetto criminals looking for a quick, easy lay. Maybe she said she was on the pill, too, but we’ll never hear the other side of the story. A lot of people still somehow believe these women are "victims," and think they simply were too dumb to make "the right choice." Bollocks. Just because she’s a white woman doesn’t mean she didn’t see how the game works. You have kids, you qualify for WIC, TANF, Section 8 housing, etc. She was acting in her own interest. She deliberately created a family (sort of), headed solely by her, and is getting "help" from the government in doing so. Essentially, she’s getting paid to have illegitimate children. http://www.the-spearhead.com/2012/07/17/npr-lets-subsidize-really-bad-choices/

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