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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090211/ap_on_re_us/octuplets
I just have no words for this.
LOS ANGELES – A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman's 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California's taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red.
Even before the 33-year-old single, unemployed mother gave birth to octuplets last month, she had been caring for her six other children with the help of $490 a month in food stamps, plus Social Security disability payments for three of the youngsters. The public aid will almost certainly be increased with the new additions to her family.
Also, the hospital where the octuplets are expected to spend seven to 12 weeks has requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, for care of the premature babies, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cost has not been disclosed.
Word of the public assistance has stoked the furor over Suleman's decision to have so many children by having embryos implanted in her womb.( Cut for the sake of your friends list )
I don't even know where to start with this. How fucking irresponsible can you be?
You have no business bringing into the world more kids than you can support. That includes paying for their care, feeding, clothing, medical, whatever. it's one thing to have kid/s already and fall on hard times, or to have an oops. But clearly, if she had a hundred thousand dollars for fertility treatments, she wasn't in such hard times and "oops" doesn't result in fourteen kids in seven years.
How in the hell do you expect to support these kids? You say you don't expect to be on welfare for very long (oh, and you don't consider it "welfare"). You say you plan to support your kids with student loans. Ha!
How in the hell do you expect to find the time to do your school work? A master's degree isn't exactly underwater basketweaving, genius.
How in the hell do you expect to support fourteen kids on student loans?
How in the hell do you expect to pay back such astronomical loans while supporting your kids?
How in the hell do you expect to support your kids on one income? Hell, even if there was a father? It would still take quite the dual income to properly support these kids.
Hope you're okay with being a single mother for like, ever. Because no man in his right mind is going to find out that you've got fourteen kids and immediately run because 1. Fourteen kids! 2. she's looking for a daddy and another income and 3. did I mention the fourteen kids?
How in the hell do you expect to give these kids the time and attention they need?
How in the hell do you expect to be able to go anywhere? I mean, you can't even just go to the grocery store for a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. What if you have to take kid/s to the doctor? Are you going to buy a bus? Where would you get the money for that?
Volunteers? Give me a break. You shouldn't be expecting people to volunteer to take care of kids that you shouldn't have in the first place.
How in the hell do you expect to remain healthy enough to even attempt to do any of this?
Oh my god, my brain is racing with incomprehension at the stupidity. I can't even begin to properly express what I'm thinking here. This is the sort of person who has no business having one kid (I don't care if she had the finances to take care of one kid, there's clearly a massive irresponsible streak there.)
And don't get me started on the doctor who performed the treatments (apparently, the doctors who delivered the babies are now speaking out in favor of tougher regulations on assisted reproduction...holy fucking cow, someone needs to.) this is...ridiculous. Has this doctor no regard for the health and well-being of anything but his bank account? He should be the one footing the bill for these kids, seeing as there was probably no one holding a gun to his head and forcing him to do it.
Oh, and Arnold, your tax payers deserve full disclosure on how much they're paying for this. So make with the fucking numbers already.
*Okay, so clearly, I have words...but what I've written here doesn't even begin to properly express what I'm thinking.
I just have no words for this.
LOS ANGELES – A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman's 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California's taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red.
Even before the 33-year-old single, unemployed mother gave birth to octuplets last month, she had been caring for her six other children with the help of $490 a month in food stamps, plus Social Security disability payments for three of the youngsters. The public aid will almost certainly be increased with the new additions to her family.
Also, the hospital where the octuplets are expected to spend seven to 12 weeks has requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, for care of the premature babies, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cost has not been disclosed.
Word of the public assistance has stoked the furor over Suleman's decision to have so many children by having embryos implanted in her womb.( Cut for the sake of your friends list )
I don't even know where to start with this. How fucking irresponsible can you be?
You have no business bringing into the world more kids than you can support. That includes paying for their care, feeding, clothing, medical, whatever. it's one thing to have kid/s already and fall on hard times, or to have an oops. But clearly, if she had a hundred thousand dollars for fertility treatments, she wasn't in such hard times and "oops" doesn't result in fourteen kids in seven years.
How in the hell do you expect to support these kids? You say you don't expect to be on welfare for very long (oh, and you don't consider it "welfare"). You say you plan to support your kids with student loans. Ha!
How in the hell do you expect to find the time to do your school work? A master's degree isn't exactly underwater basketweaving, genius.
How in the hell do you expect to support fourteen kids on student loans?
How in the hell do you expect to pay back such astronomical loans while supporting your kids?
How in the hell do you expect to support your kids on one income? Hell, even if there was a father? It would still take quite the dual income to properly support these kids.
Hope you're okay with being a single mother for like, ever. Because no man in his right mind is going to find out that you've got fourteen kids and immediately run because 1. Fourteen kids! 2. she's looking for a daddy and another income and 3. did I mention the fourteen kids?
How in the hell do you expect to give these kids the time and attention they need?
How in the hell do you expect to be able to go anywhere? I mean, you can't even just go to the grocery store for a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. What if you have to take kid/s to the doctor? Are you going to buy a bus? Where would you get the money for that?
Volunteers? Give me a break. You shouldn't be expecting people to volunteer to take care of kids that you shouldn't have in the first place.
How in the hell do you expect to remain healthy enough to even attempt to do any of this?
Oh my god, my brain is racing with incomprehension at the stupidity. I can't even begin to properly express what I'm thinking here. This is the sort of person who has no business having one kid (I don't care if she had the finances to take care of one kid, there's clearly a massive irresponsible streak there.)
And don't get me started on the doctor who performed the treatments (apparently, the doctors who delivered the babies are now speaking out in favor of tougher regulations on assisted reproduction...holy fucking cow, someone needs to.) this is...ridiculous. Has this doctor no regard for the health and well-being of anything but his bank account? He should be the one footing the bill for these kids, seeing as there was probably no one holding a gun to his head and forcing him to do it.
Oh, and Arnold, your tax payers deserve full disclosure on how much they're paying for this. So make with the fucking numbers already.
*Okay, so clearly, I have words...but what I've written here doesn't even begin to properly express what I'm thinking.
