Your kids, your problem
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passionpop Kids are a massive drain on finances, on society and on the environment. There is too many people as it is and we keep popping out more little people. Once we have popped them out, we chuck them into day care and make them someone else’s problem. If I don’t have kids, why should the little brats be my problem? Why should I have to endure some selfish breeders undisciplined spawn interrupting my life? Why cant we send the little brats back to where we came from? Yes, I am an anti-breeder and there should be more of us, damn it.
The other day, while I was walking through Woolworths in the city and listing to ‘Sheep go to Heaven’ by Cake as it was piped through the store, the Goats going to Hell was interrupted by a child a few aisles away. Some would call it a screaming banshee, but it was beyond that. The screams we the screams of a person possessed. It appeared to be a painful possession but the possession was certainly not being rejected by the parent or the child. It isn’t the Goats going to hell, it is the parents of that evil parasite. The umbilical cord on that one should have been cut a litter further from the mother, maybe closer to the child’s throat. The parent inconsiderately continued shopping. Even as I left the store, I could hear the echo of the scream.
Instead of encouraging less children, we want more. The government gives handouts for people who have them. They build infrastructure for then and then what happens when all the children grow up and there aren’t enough people to sustain the school? They close it down, but only after building three more schools further away. The unused, closed down schools slowly fall apart, but it will take decades, if ever, before it is demolished and something practical is done with the space. At the same time more suburbs are built for the grown up kids to live in as they re-spawn to fill the new schools.
It seems that society is designed for breeding. Even my local shopping centre, Cockburn Gateway, has parents with prams parking right near the door. What about the parents without prams? What about those seniors who’s kids have long since left home. People with kids don’t necessarily have mobility issues, but most seniors do. So why don’t they get parking near the door like breeders do? All breeders need is wide parking spaces so they can put the pram up next to their SUV, and a crosswalk between their parking space and the shopping centre door. Why don’t we make special breeder SUV parking a suburb away from the shopping centre. That would also help the child obesity problem that my taxes will be paying for in the near future. Another solution is less handouts to breeders thus less money for the fatty foods that the kids eat. Then my taxes can go somewhere deserved.
The other day, while I was walking through Woolworths in the city and listing to ‘Sheep go to Heaven’ by Cake as it was piped through the store, the Goats going to Hell was interrupted by a child a few aisles away. Some would call it a screaming banshee, but it was beyond that. The screams we the screams of a person possessed. It appeared to be a painful possession but the possession was certainly not being rejected by the parent or the child. It isn’t the Goats going to hell, it is the parents of that evil parasite. The umbilical cord on that one should have been cut a litter further from the mother, maybe closer to the child’s throat. The parent inconsiderately continued shopping. Even as I left the store, I could hear the echo of the scream.
Instead of encouraging less children, we want more. The government gives handouts for people who have them. They build infrastructure for then and then what happens when all the children grow up and there aren’t enough people to sustain the school? They close it down, but only after building three more schools further away. The unused, closed down schools slowly fall apart, but it will take decades, if ever, before it is demolished and something practical is done with the space. At the same time more suburbs are built for the grown up kids to live in as they re-spawn to fill the new schools.
It seems that society is designed for breeding. Even my local shopping centre, Cockburn Gateway, has parents with prams parking right near the door. What about the parents without prams? What about those seniors who’s kids have long since left home. People with kids don’t necessarily have mobility issues, but most seniors do. So why don’t they get parking near the door like breeders do? All breeders need is wide parking spaces so they can put the pram up next to their SUV, and a crosswalk between their parking space and the shopping centre door. Why don’t we make special breeder SUV parking a suburb away from the shopping centre. That would also help the child obesity problem that my taxes will be paying for in the near future. Another solution is less handouts to breeders thus less money for the fatty foods that the kids eat. Then my taxes can go somewhere deserved.
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Date: 2011-08-07 09:51 am (UTC)Fatty food is not the most expensive option - usually I find it's the opposite. (look at the price of bananas) Maccas is often the cheapest/easiest alternative for time-poor parents - takeaway food that has actual nutritional value costs a lot more, and cooking a proper meal takes time. And kids are fussy little shits that use their pester power to get that happy meal they want. We should be taxing junk food to subsidise healthy food! (and medical care for the overweight - much like cigarettes). Much as I love chocolate, a tax that directly funds farmers to make a decent living off growing fruit and veggies is not such a crazy idea.
Totally agree about the pram spots - how many times do I see pram spots that are closer to the door than the actual blue disabled spots? Having a kid is a lifestyle choice; you shouldn't get preferential tratment over those with disabilities they certainly had no choice about.
I'm not against government handouts for kids though. Even those who don't have kids benefit from them and need them to exist. When we get old and retire, someone needs to do all the work and provide the services and keep the economy running. If you didn't have kids of your own, other people's kids will be doing it - the ones you helped support through your taxes when you worked. And now (theoretically) they're working and paying tax to help support you. Not that the system works the way it is but the basic principal is sound - it's just the execution that needs work.
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Date: 2011-08-07 01:58 pm (UTC)a friend of mine is not going back to work after maternity leave because it is not worth going back for the costs she will have to pay for the extended hours in childcare. for her it was the most logical decision.
I am not against the handout, I am just against there being SO MANY for families. there is the breeder bonus, income assistance, pensions, childcare rebates plus we pay for schools and other educational devices (like computers), parks and community services... choose a handout. you cant have all of them, give a couple up ffs and share the money around. if the breeders weren't getting so many handouts then the pension might be able to be kept for when we retire....
speaking of selfish breeders...
Date: 2011-08-07 10:00 am (UTC)About 6 minutes later (length of the queue at the time) I got her again. She (thinking I was a different operator) wanted to know where she could complain about this person who'd hung up on her... so I got her con note number and told her "the previous girl" had logged in the enquiry that she had d/ced due to a high pitched noise in order to protect her hearing. Silly me, I thought she'd see the logic, but she didn't.
She said it was "utterly ridiculous" and it was just her son who had fallen over and hurt himself. Basically making me out to be a heartless kid-hater who should have been understanding that the poor boy had hurt himself and naturally had to scream! (she seemed to equate removing myself from the OHS issue of possible hearing damage equated somehow to slapping her kid and telling him to stfu.) Anyway I apologised for her having been hung up on (with my teeth clenched) and gave her our web address so she could make a complaint.
I didn't mention our calls are recorded so they would be able to hear the exact noise that caused me to hang up. Was not at all worried that I'd be getting in trouble. (and I didn't - TL just handed me the complaint she wrote and said "if anyone asks I talked to you about that, ok?" And he didn't even bother listening to the recording, just shrugged and said whatevs)
And the kicker? Throughout the second call, the kid was still screaming in the background. So basically she ignored his pain so she could immediately call back and bitch about being hung up on. (and I was apparently the nasty child hater. Right.)
Re: speaking of selfish breeders...
Date: 2011-08-07 02:00 pm (UTC)one of my friends would use her kids nap-time to make all the calls she needed. more parents need to learn from that example