Octa-mess

I love kids, I have two of my own. That's about all I can handle or afford. Some people want a bakers dozen, and hey, while I think they must be out of their gourds, I support their right to have as many as they want. It's America, and that should be our right.

However, what I don't want to support is: THEIR kids. Like I said, we support our own kids... without assistance. I was aware of what my lifestyle, financial situation (and sanity) could bear, and put the brakes on the number two. They are a joy and I love them more than life itself, and that's why I want to make sure I can afford to buy clothes for them, involve them in extra curricular activities, give them the love and attention they need, without taxing myself and being a burden to society. That is my choice.

Octa-mom's choice was to have kids, and keep having kids, knowing full well she couldn't support them. Yes, this is America and that is her right. However, these thinly veiled socialist programs our government has in place dictate that I HAVE to pay for her lack of money (and marbles). According to her dad, she was already on food stamps BEFORE she got pregnant with the 8. So.....where did she get the money for these implants? Where is she getting the money to go to school? You know who!

I feel this is a moral pickle. On the one hand, I don't think the government has the right to dictate how many kids we can have. We can't and shouldn't sterilize her or take her kids away, unless she is a bad mother who isn't taking care of them properly. Nor I do I think the kids should suffer for their mom's craziness. They definitely should be provided for. However, I am OUTRAGED that you and I have to pay for her obvious lack of common sense and, what I feel, is a desperate cry for attention. She even has the gall to set up a website to ask for donations! Do you think people will give her donations? Absolutely! Why? Because people are MORONS!!!

This isn't a hapless mom who didn't have any children and planned on having one child that she could support. This is a mom who was already blessed (and overwhelmed financially) with 6 kids who wanted to bring another one into the world that she couldn't afford in the first place.

So, bottom line, do I think she should get government support? No. Sorry, I don't think we should pay for other people's dumb choices. It just encourages more dumb choices. I do feel bad for those babies, and I don't want them to suffer. So.....

Brilliant Idea! Let's make the doctor who did this support the kids! He, in essence, got her pregnant, ergo, he should support them. Come on people, he knew what he did was wrong. He violated his hypocratic oath of "do no harm". He should be fined, and his fine should go to child support.

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