http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/...on_plan_fi.html
Or, if you can't get to the story by the time you read this, a summary: John LaBruzzo, state representative for the Metairie district, Louisana, has a proposal to pay poor women $1000 to have their tubes tied. Mind you, this is in the face of his opposition to abortion, family planning, education reform. His worry?
"LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government."
He further claims that the idea is being 'brainstormed' to possibly include vasectomies for me, to avoid charges of sexism; and that the obviously rascist nature of his proposal is negated by "He said more white people are on welfare than black people, so his proposal is not targeting race."
But of course, he tries to deflect criticism by ignoring the facts that:
a lot of poor, undereducated, people would jump at the chance for even a temporary boost of $1000 in their income;
this proposal would leave a far larger population base for the middle-to-upper class whites with children and expanding families than it would racial minorities;
welfare for the rich, in the form of tax breaks, 'econimic stimulus packages', guarranteed loans, no bid contracts for private firms for defense, homeland security & energy industires cost far more than direct welfare payments like WiC, living wages, etc.
In short, this proposal has nothing but the eugenics systemitized by the fascists of Nazi Germany behind it. In fact, LaBruzzo knows full well this proposal doesn't have a chance of being seen for anything but what it is: pandering tot he rascist, upper-class elitism that got David Duke elected to state legislature from pretty much the same district.
Disgusting.
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