Concerned about abuse of welfare

Resist those urges! Please use self-control and birth control. We can’t afford to have people producing children when they can’t afford to care for them. Forty-nine percent of Spokane County births were paid for by Medicaid in 2010. That is a 49 percent increase over 2000.

Nationwide over 50 percent of the pregnancies are unplanned. For teenagers, the percentage is 80 percent. This should not surprise us as our welfare system rewards women who have additional children. Statistics show us that these children continue to be a burden to the tax payers in preschool and public school.

Parents shoul...