Pay people to have kids? What???

Hillary Clinton wants to give $5,000 to every baby born!?! This woman has lost touch with reality.

Someone needs to leash her. Is this what a real Democrat looks like? She cannot possibly be seriously considering this ludicrous idea.

I think I just heard all of the other presidential hopefuls breathe a sigh of relief.

Her idea is that the money will be kept in an account for the child until the child is 18, at which point they can do what they want with it.

My first thought was that there will be, first, a huge population boom in anticipation of this ‘free’ money giveaway, next, a huge increase in the number of welfare cases because people can‘t think far enough into the future to realize they can’t support all these new kids and thirdly, a huge increase in our taxes to pay for it and all of the new schools that will be needed to continue ‘teaching’ what passes for the half-assed education we have been given in order to work in meaningless service jobs because politicians like Hillary Clinton have forced all other businesses overseas because of the higher taxes needed to pay for stupid plans such as this. But then again, maybe she is just farming for future votes.

Was she maybe, I don’t know, sleep walking when she uttered this ridiculous plan? Maybe she was drinking and this errant thought just accidentally slipped out.

I keep trying to rationalize how any adult, grounded in reality, could phantom this idea as having a chance of working.

She thinks she is living in some idealistic world where everyone can be trusted to leave that money alone until the perfect moment in time when it will be withdrawn and ‘wisely’ spent on his or her future.

What about parents who start popping babies out one after another in hopes of getting that money for themselves? I can just see it now, some selfish, unscrupulous parent with a fabricated ‘dire situation’ will find an equally low-life lawyer (just throw a rock and it will bounce off of one and hit the other) who will convince a liberal, bleeding-heart judge that the parent ‘owns’ the account because of parental rights over the child and therefore should have access to it immediately. And there goes your ‘plan’ Hillary.

Here is something else I can see the politicians do, all in the name of ‘helping’ us, once this plan goes into effect, there will no longer be any reason for Social Security, because, after all, the government already gave us money that we was expected to nurture and invest into a sizable golden nest egg that will make each and every one of us independently wealthy. This way the politicians can keep all of the tax money for themselves.

Hillary thinks that such an account program would help Americans get back to the tradition of savings that she remembers as a child, and has become harder to accomplish in the face of rising college and housing costs.

Hillary, Hillary, Hillary. I am shaking my head in disbelief at your naiveté. You are so out of touch. ‘Tradition of savings” huh? Well, maybe those people who were lucky enough to be born into a family that had the ‘extra’ money, after paying bills, could afford the luxury of a “tradition of savings”. But for the rest of us, here in the real world, we could only dream of having enough money to save. Incessantly nagging little things like rent, clothing and food expenses kept getting in the way of that dream.

Do you honestly believe that if you plant this ‘seed’ money into everyone’s bank account that they will magically begin having ‘extra’ money to add to it and therefore reinvigorate this nostalgic ‘tradition of savings’ that you speak of?

You really have no clue about how everyday, common working people live their lives.

If people had the inclination to save, or had any left over after paying their monthly survival bills, they would already be doing so.

The reason very few people save for the future is because they want everything now. They have no clue what it is like to go without, because their parents (those who know what it is to actually work for a living) have given them every thing they want, usually out of a misguided and destructive notion that their kids should have more than they did. These people have no respect for money and have no real idea of what it is to work for it and scrimp and save for it. Plus, credit is so damned easy to get that coupled with their desire to have the world now they get trapped into that credit ‘black hole’ of ever-increasing-interest-rates and ever-decreasing-principal-pay-down that they will never be out of debt. In addition, everything costs so much more than in the days of yore when the ‘tradition of savings’ was in its heyday.

If you really want to do something in the way of fiscal responsibility figure out a way for everyone to practice money management and how to not live beyond our means.

Oh, and Hillary, at bit of advice, stop throwing more money at problems thinking that will solve anything. What we really want is someone who will actually fix problems through good, solid legislation without increasing our taxes. You politicians are already way overpaid for what little you provide us. I think the time has come for you to actually earn your salaries before forcing us to pay you even more.

And, seriously, of all the hair-brained, lame, stupid, asinine ideas I have ever heard from any politician this one tops the list.