So what you're saying, if I understand you correctly, is that either the state forces women to give birth to babies they may not be able to afford but then the state shouldn't do anything about the children's welfare afterwards or that women can have all the children they want even if the kids starve or are brought up in such a way as to continue the cycle of poverty as long as the state has nothing to do with it?
Apparently you missed the part about me being willing to give her whatever choice she wants with her body as long as I, as a taxpayer, aren't forced to fund something I'm told is none of my business when she can't. She can have sex with a different man 365 days/year but if she want contraceptives, she should pay. She can have 100 abortions, and while I do care, if she chooses to do so but any of them cause health problems she can't fund, too bad. If she wants to have a dozen kids, fine as long as she supports them.
That all seems reasonable to me and it's currently how insurance works. Tax payers don't find contraceptives, insurance companies cover the cost. Tax payers don't fund abortions, women have to pay for them.
Tax payers fund financial assistance programs because it makes sense in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world not to have shanty towns or people starving in the streets with high crime rates like Mexico or Bolivia or Somalia. It benefits us all.
If a woman has a child and can't support that child, what should we, as a nation, do? If the circumstances are temporary, doesn't it make sense to provide assistance until she gets back on her feet? If it's permanent or chronic, what then? Too bad for the kid? Starve or beg? Foster home?
Ahh...so now you have hit it on the nose. I ask you think about this.....for years we have had programs for the needy...and we do not have shanty towns and parents losing their children to foster homes ..
And during those years we have had republican presidents and congresses that could have eliminated such programs, but did not for they AND their constituents understood the need for those programs to feed and house the needy and their children
But now it has turned into free cell phones; free college; free healthcare (as opposed to ER and clinic free care); free broadband....
Yet for some reason, those against these NEW program are questioned as to why they want little children to starve.
And thus this trhead.
We don't want little children to starve. We want them to learn the importance of earning things.
The GOP leadership hasn't eliminated Social Security, but Bush tried to. They haven't eliminated SNAP or WIC, but they've cut those programs citing "lazy people, welfare queens, young bucks on food stamps". They refuse to expand Medicare/Medicaid to cover those in poverty. You're right, they haven't eliminated them, must everything but... Meanwhile, this thread has some conservatives, outliers maybe, who are demonstrating that they do want these programs eliminated. I have had these arguments on other threads. You maybe a reasonable conservative, but some on your side aren't. My side has it's share of loonies, communists, etc. don't get me wrong.
The Lifeline (or Obamaphone) program started under Reagan and was expanded to include wireless services under Bush Jr. It isn't a free cell phone, it's subsidized phone service for those who qualify.
Free college for two years is
arguably a good thing for a nation that needs educated and skilled workers since manufacturing has declined. It will never happen.
Free healthcare only exists for vets, and for the free riders who are being eliminated from the system under the ACA.
I've never heard of a program or heard anyone demanding free broadband. I'm not accusing you of lying, but it sounds like an extreme outlier position at best.
I don't believe that fiscal conservatives who oppose government spending on free phones, free college, free healthcare, or free broadband are being accused of wanting to starve children. Those who oppose SNAP and WIC are, and rightfully so.
The conservative voters seem to idolize the rich and villify the poor. They cut social assistance programs and taxes for the wealthy. Welfare only lasts a couple of years, the vast majority of those who require it are on it temporarily, statistical evidence does not support that welfare programs suffer from widespread fraud or abuse nor that those on it are drug addicts with nice cars and big tv's.
If you don't like the messaging from the left, take a look at the right and ask yourself which is worse: help the poor you rich asshole or let them eat the crumbs from our tables like the undeserving dogs they are.