The system is dumb part 1 (Public assistance/kids)

Okay, first journal entry in months so, Hi!. In the time I have been gone I have turned 21 and graduated college. We also have a new president, speaking of which I was thinking...So I have been noticing our economy is in trouble and financially this country isn't doing too well. But, I see a lot of people having kids that shouldn't be, such as extremely low income/unemployed/unmarried individuals. When I see things like this I think to myself, "Why would you have children when you can barely provide for yourself?" I then began to think about solutions to this problem.

The government probably spends millions if not billions sending checks to people that can't afford to provide for themselves or their children. But then because of the situations that those children tend to grow up in, they end in the same boat as their parents did, and so on and so forth. Well I think that if the government just gave lower income individuals money to not have children then we would probably save a lot more money. If those individuals decide to have kids, no more money, they have to work. That way only the hard working and responsible people will be likely to have kids. To me its like new age natural selection, except no one dies.

The only problem is, the federal government has never been fond of "good" ideas. But I honestly do think this would be a great idea but I highly doubt it would ever happen.