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Alright, I didn't want my first blog in a while to about something lame, but here goes...Derk Ritchison, ha just kidding. What I can't understand is the outrage over this California woman with the Octuplets. Scratch that, I can understand being upset over the medical issues, ie the dangers inherent in taking that many children to term. But, since I've been back in Taiwan, I've been amazed at all the people I know who are both aware of the birth, and pissed off that taxpayers will have to raise these kids...The fact that these same people are in love with government giving away money to anybody who asks for it never seems to enter into the equation for them. I had the same conversations when I was back home. It would always follow the exact same arc.

Liberal Friend: This Octuplet mom shit is so fucked.
Me: Why?
Liberal Friend: Because she had all these kids and can't pay for them, so now we have to. It's fucked up. They shouldn't have let this happen.
Me: So you want the government to determine how many kids people can have?
Liberal Friend: Well, no, of course not, that's facsism.
Me: Ok, so you don't want the government to give money to unemployed single moms with lots of kids?
Liberal Friend: Well no, that's what evil Republicans want.
Me: So you're pissed that a woman had a lot of kids and now is on government assistance, and someone should have done something, but you still want to give money to unemployed single mom's and you don't want to limit the number of kids people can have?
Liberal Friend: Whatever man, you can't argue that this isn't fucked up.
Me: And you want Universal Health Care too right?

It's amazing to me that people can want to just give money to people for having kids, and then get upset when they have a lot of kids, and want alot of money! And now of course the calls are coming for regulations on fertility clinics, so something like this will never happen again. BS! The problem is not people having a lot of kids, the problem is other people paying for them. It's us like with our health care system. The more the government takes over, the more we are not allowed to eat or smoke wahtever we want to.

Bleh, this turned into a rant. I'm going to write on my blog more, I promise.