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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

I feel like that's more than $5k in the picture if they're all $20 bills.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

$5,000 is a lot to those braindead morons who insist that "nobody wants to work" because they're still living comfortably off of a few $1,400 checks from half a decade ago...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Why would this in particular be important to him? I would think he wouldn't care

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

What are the odds this is just Clinton's $5,000 Baby Bond, which was just giving them a fund at birth that they can cash out when they turn 18?

Except this time there's no guardrails and he can give it to all his cryptobro friends.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

That roughly the total on what was saved with doge.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 19 hours ago

Trade:

  • One person's wages

For:

  • Mortgage payments on a reasonably sized house
  • All bills
  • Food for two adults plus children
  • Entertainment

Then you might see more babies.

It was their greed that caused this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

So weird. These are the same imbiciles complaining about welfare babies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

That looks more like 50k, 5k can easily go in pants pockets.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 18 hours ago

Daycare is free where I live. It has to be. You can't expect people to pay for public services themselves; that's done with taxes. Corporations can't have customers or employees without people, and to get people to make more people, you have to make it easier for them. So what makes the most sense is cutting corporation porfits, which they don't need past a limit if they aren't investing in things that will benefit the public. So if a corporation isn't doing anything good, raise their taxes, use them to pay for daycare.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago

They sure do act like it's the 1930s alright...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We need to feed the ones we have now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

that sounds a lot like communism to me. Damn Commies!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I used to work as a teller at a bank. That bag of money is over 100k.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

No, no, you see, that is the bag of money DOGE found to fund all of those $5k babies.

[–] MystikIncarnate 9 points 18 hours ago

You mean, they're using irrelevant and unrelated content in the message for shock value?

Impossible.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So conservatives want smaller government and less taxes but they're totally fine with their tax dollars being used to bribe women to give birth?

So they're stupid?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago

You just now noticed they're complete idiots? :D

[–] [email protected] 52 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This wouldn't even cover the hospital bill for most people lol.

And since hospitals know moms will be getting an extra 5k they will just add that into the cost somehow. /s

[–] [email protected] 36 points 22 hours ago

No need to put a /s there

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I wonder how they'll make it so it only applies to "Aryan" children. Hitler did the same shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn

[–] MystikIncarnate 12 points 18 hours ago

They won't call them Aryan, but it will be the same shit. They'll call it something like Christian babies or some nonsense; then use that as a smokescreen for their racism.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago

Ah yes, the conservatives plan to boost the birth rate has finally come to bear a rotten fruit:

  • People can't afford to have kids
  • People can't afford to feed kids
  • People can't afford to shelter kids
  • Therefore they won't have able bodied kids to keep the retirement and tax doles fulfilled
  • Nor will they have able bodied soldiers for war

But they're boosting the birth rate! (they aren't, actually, the rate will be even more in decline since the replacement rate in the US was held up by immigration like in most countries, and dumbfuck's actions have brought a stop to that).

[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)
  • A: This is the 'bad' kind of incentive. My mom worked in a hospital where people would come in pregnant, tons of neglected kids in tow, asking how much wellfare they could get for the next kid. Stuff like vouchers for school, care, healthcare and stuff doesn't incentive that.

  • B: It's hilariously inadequate and out-of-touch. $5K for childcare these days is a joke, even as a nice supplement.

...But that's the point. This is for show, like Trump's COVID checks with his signature on them. It's a brand to tell people "Hey! I'm Trump, and I'm helping you!" directly, a decent idea poorly implemented for PR purposes. It's also hilariously hypocritical, seeing how much 'blank check hand-outs' were criticized for decades.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Adoption services are going to go wild! Hospitals too with infant detox programs. It's the new plasma!

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (4 children)

5000$ is a lot. In Germany you get only 250€

well, that'sper month until they're 27 (as long as they're still in school/university)
plus free healthcare for mother and child
plus free daycare (depending on the state)
plus free schools and universities
...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

We can all hope once the nazis leave, we too can be a civilized country.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm with you here, but we need to keep in mind that the nazis never "leave". We'll need to forever and continually keep these bastards from power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This was the whole problem, they've been here all along.

We thought we beat them in the civil war, they just hunkered down and changed the name of slavery to Jim crow.

Now they think this is their moment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Same thoughts here. Once they're beaten, no "reconstruction" can be offered this time around. They'll need to re-assimilate into our society.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You forgot maternity leave, something the 'mricans don't know, either.

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[–] floofloof 7 points 18 hours ago

They're not making policy for people who can do math.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The average cost of delivering a baby in the US, including pre- and post-delivery expenses, is roughly $18,865. However, this figure can vary significantly, just gotta come up with the other 14000 dollars lol do Amerikans know other countries don't gouge their citizens for everything including birth? Land of the fee home of the slave

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It won't even cover the cost of giving birth. This is some real "how much could a banana cost" energy.

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