Ok, that was harsh, but how do you interpret this? On the front page of today’s New York Times was this headline: “Would $5000 Bonuses Spur New Baby Boom?” Trump aides are thinking of implementing a program to award $5000 to every mother who gives birth. They think we don’t have enough people in the U.S., which brings up the question of why we are deporting the ones we have.
Be that as it may, next to that article was one entitled “E.P.A. Poised to Cancel Grants To Study Dangers to Children.” Pro-lifers are often accused of caring only for “unborn children” until they are born. This is why people think that. Why is the point of awarding a bonus to giving birth if we don’t care what happens to the kid after it is born?
I’m not sure what to call this. Ironic? Bizarre? Nuts? All of the above?
The only thing I could come up will, "Everyone should have the chance to share too small a room with a sib!" (By coincidence, it's my brother's 74th birthday. Between '69 and '73 there was way too much testosterone in that room!)
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