Should Newborns Get $500 Each?

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Christian Louboutin Sale of KS 4:54AM March 16, 2010

This is another stupid government intervention. A waste of my tax dollars that I work hard for. I work for my family and children, not to give it too some lazy people on welfare who just want a hand out!!
I am sick of the politicians just sitting around thinking of ways to give out our money! Why dont they get a real job like we all have! and let these people put their own money in a bank account for their child they earned themselves.

Denise Mills of OH 10:06PM January 11, 2010

Have a newborn on the way and I pay too much in tax for property and fed/state so I would welcome this like a rebate!

jim of NY 9:00PM January 02, 2010

Does anyone on here read the US Constitution. Please show me where the Constitution provides for this type of legislation? That is our problem -- we discuss and discuss endlessly, but if it is not in the Constitution it doesn't muster and should not even be proposed.
There should be no discussion on this -- if it is passed vote out those politicians and then get all involved into a lawsuit that this is un-constitutional. We will never solve the problem
Every since FDR we have become a socialistic country -- social security, medicare, aid for farmers and other groups. Education, student loans, health care, housing breaks, credits etc. It just does not end. Read the Federalist Papers and the Constitution!!

Art of MO 11:44PM October 17, 2009

Not concerned for the children because they'll never see a penny of it. Another scam for the bankers to collect, invest, and profit.
A $500.00 coupon sponsored by the "American Tax Payer" See terms and conditions on back with magnifying glass. Bankers reserve the right to cancel or change terms at anytime.
Too predictable to see savings unredeemable by unreasonable conditions or restrictions to ever collect (if not listed in the bill already, then will change later). This is just another scam feeding on false hopes.
The future controversy will be a lame arguement between some Americans saying they have every right to collect savings while banks will say it was goverment money and never earned money. Nevertheless, this dumb idea will pass. We have no vote.

Steve of CA 12:44PM October 14, 2009

Please do some research prior to insulting one group (a major problem in the United States - attack before you know). Both sides of the table introduced this bill primarily for low-income children. I have helped those who need help my entire life, either through work, taxes, volunteering, or donation.
This is one bill I do not want to pass. It takes responsibility away from the parents. Let the parents not have children they cannot afford, and let them encourage education and hard work, rather than welfare and handouts as a way of life. Then, when it is time to go to college, let the parents show that their child tried hard in school, volunteered in the community, had a summer job (or volunteered if a summer job was not available), and did everything they could to better themselves. Then let the child's grades and work earn them scholarship.
Let the parents teach their children what it means to work for something. If the parents are on welfare, let them show their children how they are trying to get off welfare, etc... And yes, I've seen it. I taught in the inner-city. I taught students who had one set of clothing and were absent one day a week, the day when their mom could do wash. I taught a child with leukemia whose mom had to fight for chemo (I would go to his house to drop off work when he wasn't doing well). I've seen the fight within to stay in school, not drop out and to do well. I've seen it fail, and I've seen it pay off with scholarship. And I've seen that scholarship unable to be used because the family did not have enough funds for the additional costs. That family did not give up and the child is successful in his life.
Five hundred dollars is not going to help. Where is the money going to come from to add to it? Another tax, and then another? How am I to send my children to

of 11:36AM October 14, 2009

where will the giving of my Tax dollars away STOP, give it back to me if you cant spend it wisely, I lot half my retirement fund with the market crash and you want me to give some illegal aliens new born 500 dollars..... who ever thinks this stuff up is CRAZY...

Carl Diaz of TN 11:06AM October 14, 2009

What idiot Democrat started this dumb idea? Give women on welfare another reason to have more children. Enough with giving money away, let people be responsible for their own, just like people did before welfare.

Heather of IN 10:54AM October 14, 2009

I began working at 15 years of age. I have often had two and sometimes three jobs to accomplish my financial goals. The need to work day and night taught me to save and be frugal. Yet another freebie handout does nothing except continue to take from those willing to work.

Kathy of VA 10:32AM October 14, 2009

They do that in England . Not a good idea. There was a picture recently of a mother of six who is 23 years old and each child has a different father. This si so common over there and here lately too. It is like a reward. I am opposed to it. We raised seven children and my husband had a low paying job. But they all had savings accounts, that were statred by a relative. when they were old enough to go out and do odd jobs part of the earnings went into the savings account. They appreciated it more. I am so sick and tired of having money handed out for no reason at all.

Lucille of MA 10:18AM October 14, 2009