jumpingjacktrash:

entitledrichpeople:

People arguing that the poor shouldn’t have kids and that benefits should be cut from kids in families with “too many kids” are being super obvious that they don’t think of poor people as fully human.  And also that they’re into genocide (it’s not like we live in a world where poverty, deprivation, and lack of access to resources is evenly distributed across all racial/ethnic groups and we all fucking know that).

Rights like being able to have a family, to raise children, to continue our families and cultures are basic parts of human rights that people should be able to choose to engage in (or not, if that’s their preference, but they shouldn’t be coerced not to).

Banning someone from having kids or starting a family or coercing them not to is an incredibly cruel thing to do to someone.  And that’s what people are doing when they suggest poor people shouldn’t have kids.  Rich people and classist assholes act like the choice is between having kids in poverty or having kids not in poverty and that’s just not how things go in reality.  Most people born in poverty will remain in poverty or close to it.  The choice to have kids and start a family outside of poverty is one denied to most people.

And don’t concern troll about the welfare of poor kids if you’re trying to cut their food, housing, education, etc. and if you see them as garbage drains on society.  Concern for poor children is totally fucking unrelated to ruling class desires to control poor people and to victim blame poor people for poverty.

Poor people having kids isn’t what creates poverty, poverty is the result of systematic exploitation and a fucked up inhumane system.  Kids born to the poor are as valuable and human as any other child, and poor people have as much rights to things like having a family as any other human being.

the Big Secret is that lifting people out of poverty is actually cheaper than keeping them poor. living wages invigorate the economy. paying for food and housing for the poorest among us, no questions asked, gets them off welfare and back into the job market much faster. the bureaucracy designed to weed out the ‘undeserving’ costs arguably more than the benefits paid out, and having to reapply and jump through hoops continually, getting their food and medicine randomly cut off, makes people on benefits far less able to recover and go back to work. lack of health care costs the country billions more than universal health care would cost; it’s just that the cost of so many sick people is easier to hide in the statistics.

it’s not about money. it’s about power.

or rather, it’s about oligarchs tricking citizens into spending their own money to keep their neighbors poor. it isn’t the rich who subsidize corporations who pay below living wage. it’s you. it’s your taxes that are paying for cheeto hitler to take multi-million dollar vacations every damn weekend while he and his billionaire cronies promise you that cutting school lunch will make you more secure. it won’t. you’re next.