Budget

[JoeMercer'sWay]

You'd have to find somebody willing to shag you before you could accidentally have kids mate

Compared to me, SWP's Back gets a bedroom workout comparable to a never-ending Bill DeMott Tough Enough training session.

 

[SWP's back]

But that's your choice and a choice you have made, you are making the mistake of assuming everyone can think like you even to the extent of an hormonal woman with a thundering biological clock driven to have children whatever the price can be advised that she can't afford to have children , that just doesn't work and it never will. I am not disagreeing with you in your circumstances but your circumstances aren't the circumstances of everybody.

But society will pay for the first two.

I'm not sure the selfish hormonal urge to have the third, fourth or fifth is something society should pay for though.

I'd much rather have an extra few billion invested into scientific grants.

 

[The Northern Baptist]

That is still in effect saying that if you are fortunate to have the money then you can have more children, in my opinion it's wrong. Being priced out of a basic instinct like children by people who can afford to have as many as they want isn't democracy it's horrific ~runs around the room clutching at pearls and screaming "Think of the children !".

I think a roof over ones head is a basic right - I wouldn't expect the state to fund me to live in a five bed detached house in some leafy suburb. If i want that I get my head down and study, work hard, save up - ACT FUCKING RESPONSIBLY - and get that 5 bed detached house I wanted. The state will provide me with the means to obtain basic shelter, but if i want anything else i will need to pull my finger out.

Having children is a basic right - doesn't mean the government should fund me to have as many children as I want. We'll support you and yours to have 2 children, after that you're on your own mate - you want more money to have more kids? Well then, I suggest you get your head down and study, work hard, save up - ACT FUCKING RESPONSIBLY - and have as many kids as you want.

 

[Damocles]

Compared to me, SWP's Back gets a bedroom workout comparable to a never-ending Bill DeMott Tough Enough training session.

Yeah but compared to you Mother Teresa got a bedroom workout comparable to a never-ending Bill DeMott Tough Enough training session

 

[yorknomore]

But society will pay for the first two.

I'm not sure the selfish hormonal urge to have the third, fourth or fifth is something society should pay for though.

I'd much rather have an extra few billion invested into scientific grants.

Respect your opinion and your decision for you but I can't agree with it. The weird thing about society today is one half of the country want uncontrolled immigration to pay for our pensions and the other half want the incumbent population to stop breeding if they are poor. We are living in a divided society and I don't want to see it further divided by affordability birthing.

 

[Matty]

But that's your choice and a choice you have made, you are making the mistake of assuming everyone can think like you even to the extent of an hormonal woman with a thundering biological clock driven to have children whatever the price can be advised that she can't afford to have children , that just doesn't work and it never will. I am not disagreeing with you in your circumstances but your circumstances aren't the circumstances of everybody.

That's the issue I have. As a society we can't let children suffer so we have to support them when their parents simply can't afford to do so themselves. However that doesn't mean the actions of the parents in having the children in the first place aren't selfish and ill advised. Having kids you can't afford simply because you know society is going to bail you out and assist in supporting them isn't really an acceptable decision for anyone to make. People have the right to have as many kids as they want, it's their own free will, I wouldn't want to prevent that. However what they DON'T (or rather shouldn't) have the right to do is to force other people to work hard, and pay their taxes, to support the many, many kids they decide to have because they want them. People take advantage of the fact they live in a western society, a relatively caring society, where we try not to leave anyone behind (whilst realising we do, sometimes, fail). I'll tell you something, if there was literally no support for parents from the government, no hand outs or subsidies, you'd be amazed how many of these kids people "just had to have" were never actually created in the first place. People have the ability to control themselves when it comes to procreation, they just chose not to when they live in a society with our moral position.

 

[yorknomore]

I think a roof over ones head is a basic right - I wouldn't expect the state to fund me to live in a five bed detached house in some leafy suburb. If i want that I get my head down and study, work hard, save up - ACT FUCKING RESPONSIBLY - and get that 5 bed detached house I wanted. The state will provide me with the means to obtain basic shelter, but if i want anything else i will need to pull my finger out.

Having children is a basic right - doesn't mean the government should fund me to have as many children as I want. We'll support you and yours to have 2 children, after that you're on your own mate - you want more money to have more kids? Well then, I suggest you get your head down and study, work hard, save up - ACT FUCKING RESPONSIBLY - and have as many kids as you want.

Not everyone who is on welfare are having tons of children you're talking about a very small number. More people are on some kind of welfare in this country than are not would you suggest they stop having children? Let's be honest this opinion is just aimed at the poor isn't it? Which is shameful.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

Yeah but compared to you Mother Teresa got a bedroom workout comparable to a never-ending Bill DeMott Tough Enough training session

true, my bedroom workout does make Anne Widdicombe's an official Olympic training camp.

 

[yorknomore]

That's the issue I have. As a society we can't let children suffer so we have to support them when their parents simply can't afford to do so themselves. However that doesn't mean the actions of the parents in having the children in the first place aren't selfish and ill advised. Having kids you can't afford simply because you know society is going to bail you out and assist in supporting them isn't really an acceptable decision for anyone to make. People have the right to have as many kids as they want, it's their own free will, I wouldn't want to prevent that. However what they DON'T (or rather shouldn't) have the right to do is to force other people to work hard, and pay their taxes, to support the many, many kids they decide to have because they want them. People take advantage of the fact they live in a western society, a relatively caring society, where we try not to leave anyone behind (whilst realising we do, sometimes, fail). I'll tell you something, if there was literally no support for parents from the government, no hand outs or subsidies, you'd be amazed how many of these kids people "just had to have" were never actually created in the first place. People have the ability to control themselves when it comes to procreation, they just chose not to when they live in a society with our moral position.

My stance isn't really about population because we have too many people on this earth never mind the country. My issue is the affordability considering so many people are connected to the teat of welfare,since the cap of child benefit the middle earners now have an axe to grind and they are definitely grinding it.

 

[The Northern Baptist]

Not everyone who is on welfare are having tons of children you're talking about a very small number. More people are on some kind of welfare in this country than are not would you suggest they stop having children? Let's be honest this opinion is just aimed at the poor isn't it? Which is shameful.

Not really,its aimed at people who are in desperate positions and are having more and more children with no way of paying for it apart from going cap in hand to the state. My whole point is around making people be more responsible.

My problem is with people who do this.

This isn't even up for debate anymore, the chancellor has acted and this is happening. end of story.