{"id":3102,"date":"2008-09-24T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T19:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2008-09-24T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T19:37:36","slug":"its-not-the-heat-its-the-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3102","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not the heat, it&#8217;s the stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LaBruzzo considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/09\/labruzzo_sterilization_plan_fi.html\">plan<\/a> to pay poor women $1,000 to have tubes tied<br \/>\nby Mark Waller, The Times-Picayune<br \/>\nTuesday September 23, 2008, 10:40 PM<\/p>\n<p>Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re on a train headed to the future and there&#8217;s a bridge out, &#8221; LaBruzzo said of what he suspects are dangerous demographic trends. &#8220;And nobody wants to talk about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government. He said he is gathering statistics now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LaBruzzo considering plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have tubes tied by Mark Waller, The Times-Picayune Tuesday September 23, 2008, 10:40 PM Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied. &#8220;We&#8217;re on a train headed to the future and there&#8217;s a bridge out, &#8221; LaBruzzo said of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-O2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}