Louisiana Representative wants to sterilize poor women, give rich women tax breaks to breed
The secret class war continues.
We have a history of this sort of brutal attack on the poor in our country.The United States was the first country to undertake planned, compulsory sterilization back in the 19th century. Michigan being the first state to try to legalize it. In Michigan the poor, the retarded, the alcoholic, the criminal and the Native Americans were all forcibly sterilized by the state for decades. In many cases people were lied to about the procedures they were undergoing.
The sterilizations continued until the 1980s.
The mindset behind the campaign against the poor is insidious. It believes that there is something wrong with poverty on a genetic level. Something that needs to be exterminated. Poor people are seen as a sort of malaria to be eradicated, and not as human beings.
Buried in this thought process is a fundamental disbelief in the American dream. The dream that anyone who works hard can provide for themselves and for their children, and that their kids will enjoy a better quality of life than they themselves had been subjected to. Think about that: the poor are seen as being outside the American dream. They are poor by birth. Poor by blood. No matter how many examples we have of people turning their lives around, rising out of poverty to do great things--it doesn't change anything.
He said he is gathering statistics now. … “What I’m really studying is any and all possibilities that we can reduce the number of people that are going from generational welfare to generational welfare,” he said.
He said his program would be voluntary. It could involve tubal ligation, encouraging other forms of birth control or, to avoid charges of gender discrimination, vasectomies for men. It also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.