I think one of the good things about this country is that working hard can get you what you want, and there is sufficient freedom, equality and opportunity for mostly everyone who wants and deserves to be successful, to be successful.

The way for everyone to be equal is for everyone to sink to the level of the lowest person, because some people will never rise. I'd rather be happy and successful and everyone else be miserable than everyone be miserable including myself. One good thing about America is that not everyone is equally successful, and that my own success is almost entirely in my own hands.

I say, screw everyone but myself and the people I personally feel deserve something from me. I expect not a single penny from anyone who doesn't feel I deserve it through some deed of my own. America is good insofar as I'm allowed to live this philosophy, and bad insofar as I'm not. I am thankfully able to live this philosophy here to some extent.

[qq=Asorie]And while I agree that those who have children should only do so when they can support them, you are sadly ignorant as to the reality of trying, as a young woman, a low-income woman, or a woman far from a large city, to get birth control or even adequate information.[/qq]

Of the many things I disagree with in this post, I must comment on this one. If people stop having sex, they won't have babies. This is free. A person is 100% personally responsible for their own reproductive activities. Being female, poor, young, or living in a populous city is not even a partial excuse for having an unwanted child.