Bigcountry, can you afford to have a kid? Will you still be able to say that in 10 years? I can afford a kid now just like I could afford her when we had her. Will I be able to afford her in 2 years? 10 years? Who knows. Does that mean that if something happens and I can't afford to feed her with $2+ a pound hamburger that I should give her up? In case you haven't noticed, the prices are going up at the grocery store. Not all of us can afford to eat whatever we want or drive $40k trucks. I've had to eat the crap food that's barely fit for human consumption that the gov't hands out, and I don't ever want to do that again. I bust my a$$ so that my daughter will have better than I did as a kid. I drive a seven year old Jeep with 131K on it. It's falling apart, but getting a better vehicle would mean that I have to get rid of something else.

I knew better than to reply to this post in the first place, but I couldn't help myself. When I see people saying that they'd never resort to poaching to feed their family because the gov't will be there to give them a handout, it gets my blood boiling. Having been on the recieving end of those handouts, I know how crappy they really are, how little there is of it, and how hard it is to get them. I never said that it was legal, just that if I had to to feed my family, I would in a hillbilly's heart beat.