[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

You don't know anything.

You also need to get over your uninformed bigotry and research how people across socioeconomic status (with some exception for the independently wealthy) express being economically and mentally unprepared for children. Poor people are unfairly the representatives for something that is a societal and world problem.

Bullshit. Middle class people all over the world do just fine with their kids. It's an economic adjustment for almost everyone but they deal with it. The poor, on the other hand are excessively dependent on government wealth redistribution in order to make ends meet, and as mentioned earlier, still fail to take adequate care of the children, costing further billions of dollars. Paying a thousand dollars here and there to make sure some of those individuals stopped making babies that the public had to provide for would save huge sums of money. Considering that the first rule of getting out of a hole is to stop digging, something like this would certainly yield positive results.

I don't care if people go extinct (which will take a while with over 7 billion people and daily births and deaths) but I never said people should stop reproducing. I said no one is doing anyone a favor by reproducing.

Sure we do. Those of us who produce children who will go on to college and make something of themselves because they had good parents to teach them right from wrong, that hard work pays off, and to refrain from drugs/crime are producing the future workforce, the folks who might someday be funding our social security, etc. On the other hand, the poor are by and large producing our future prisoners and felons, future gang members, future meth manufacturers, etc. That's a lot of generalization, but gang membership and distribution of meth is not found in all socioeconomic cross sections of society at the same levels.