Baby Bonuses, Fertility Planning: Trump Aides Assess Ideas to Boost Birthrate

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White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children

Dated: 2025-04-21. Added: 2025-04-21. Alt title: “Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning”.

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Ah, I guess they don't think we have enough white babies. This kind of goes against some of the laws conservative states have passed that have blocked abortion and with them fertility programs.
- ...And affordable housing, childcare, education, public transportation, affordable, accessible healthcare...any and all of these are necessary to create an environment someone would want to raise a child in. They take money away from the ultra wealthy and military contractors though so are anethema to the conservative monster.
America is a machine that makes slaves. How many Americans have never experienced unadulterated existence?
From my experience it's as if freedom never was. The essence of life is derailed as soon as possible. Indoctrinated with ideologies that benefit a master whether it's nationalism or a religion that has lost its spirituality. You can be a good kind genuine and honest person, but if you see this, the truth of this happening, you become an enemy. It's the only life path they allow, out of infinite possibilities.
Where could humanity be if it wasn't like this?
More children are going to be born to adults that work and then watch sitcoms and drink daily. More children are going to see that as if it's living. The ones that understand it's just farm scheme will not have kids and end up ostracized by the nationalistic society. Half the marriages I've seen don't even seem like love. It's as if people just get married because they are taught it's the next step and they just marry the person because they are too afraid to be alone so they lock down a crutch to hold themselves up at the expense of wasting someone's life and then birthing illegitimate kids that further a cycle of a shitty society.
"It ain't worth it, who cursed it?
Point the fingers at the ones who birthed it
Brought to earth, a brand new person
The same ones who called 'em all worthless
And called 'em good for nothin', I call them cousin
I call 'em brother and sister, I still love 'em
Brother and sister, I still love 'em
Brother and sister, I still love 'em"
The handmaid's tale was not meant to be an instruction manual!