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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 68 points 2 days ago (8 children)

They chose to use a stock photo of a million dollars.

$5000 is only 2 and a half of those bundles of $20’s.

These people are trying to run propaganda for Trump, they can’t even keep their fascist bullshit straight.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

but when you look through maga glasses, that's what you see when a black single mom of 2 receives a wic voucher for a couple gallons of milk.

[–] SavageCreation@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

You see, its not one black mom, its the millions of moms getting subsidies!

Lets ignore the part where we somewhy have a million moms needing subsidies.

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[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 day ago (5 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
...

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago (2 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.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[–] cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 59 points 1 day 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

[–] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 day ago

No need to put a /s there

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also, the cost of giving birth will magically jump up by $5,000 as soon as this passes. It was never a function of how much it cost to actually provide that service.

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

$8000 if the mother wants to hold her baby after birth

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 46 points 1 day 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.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (28 children)

Better Idea, let's fix the economy so people can afford to have Babies.

Or fix the world so we want to have Babies.

Or lower the price of housing so we have a place to put babies.

Or open forced breeding camps, shanty towns and and slave labor...oh wait.

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[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

WE CAN'T DO THAT, IT'S LIKE PUNISHING THE MOMS WHO ALREADY HAD CHILDREN!!!! /s

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

This is literally going to be an argument if people start proposing free daycare/child care :/

[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago

It's already been done to college students - that's the parallel I was trying to draw

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[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That won’t even cover half of the (insured) cost of even the smoothest birth with my plan, and I work for a multi-billion dollar company.

This country, man. Having traveled abroad a bit, you start to realize how tunnel-visioned people stateside can get. Don’t even realize how much they/we are getting fleeced.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Having traveled abroad a bit, you start to realize how tunnel-visioned people stateside can get. Don’t even realize how much they/we are getting fleeced.

It's the classic of someone having to visit a doctor while in Europe. And they're always shocked at how cheap it is in comparison. Even people who know it's much cheaper tend to think it's like 50% , not 99-100% less. I had an emergency room visit with blood and urine testing, painkiller injection, private exam room, etc.. It took a few hours and was about $25 that you could pay at a machine on your way out.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

I was gonna day $5k is just a handout to insurance companies for just the birth of the baby.

Which is, well, the end of Republicans giving a shit about babies and children.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

They just cut head start, slashed medicade(51% of us babies are born on this program), no medicade no pediatric care for your baby either, cut hud, slashed the department of education, blocked student loan forgiveness, are dismantling the aca preventative care mandate, gutting worker protections, canceling child labor laws, laid off 275,000 workers and destroyed their livelihood and tanked the economy ……yea the birth rate is going to plummet. 5k lol doesn’t even cover a fraction of the utter devastation coming to American families from these moronic policies. Who in their right mind would want to bring a child into this racist sexist tech bro oligarchy?

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

yea the birth rate is going to plummet.

I'm not so sure. Impoverished countries have the highest birth rates. I can imagine the logic of the wealthy 0.001% being "if we make the rest of the country as broke as Somalia, the birth rate will also be as high as Somalia."

[–] GenXLiberal@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And all to fund tax cuts for the wealthy - who don’t need them.

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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Wages have not kept up with productivity and GDP increases since the 1970s.

How about making single income middle class families possible again, so you can have one stay at home parent.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
  • 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.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The type of person who would think 5k for having a kid is a great deal is exactly the type of person conservatives would bitch about having kids and leeching all the other government resources.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago

Coincidentally, it's also the exact type of person conservatives want having kids. They make up the majority of prison labor, military fodder, and wage slaves.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

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

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day 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?

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Daycare cost $2k a month

Is that for real? That's more than (many) private schools in Europe.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A 2 bedroom 1 bathroom house in Toronto costs more than a castle in france

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[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Well to be fair, that's what it costs in many European countries, too.

That's why many women don't work. The cost is basically as high as a low paying or part time job.

That's why everyone needs free daycare. That will generate a higher GDP for everyone.

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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

He should know that you can't buy that many diapers with $5k.

Unless he doesn't do his own diaper shopping I guess...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day 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.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Having a kid will cost you much more than 100grand. Giving you 5k to fuck is such an insult.

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[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago

monkey paw finger curls You get free healthcare coverage and half minimum wage for each child just for existing. However, you and your child must renounce your citizenship, forfeit your passport, and accept indentured servant status until you can buy back your citizenship after repaying the government child support in full.

[–] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We need to feed the ones we have now

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[–] Rawdogg@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day 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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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day 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.

[–] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 11 points 18 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...

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

How about some of that socialism for the rest of us, and not just for breeders and soybean farmers?

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