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From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, Pa.)
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Subject: Re: Re:  Mothers in restaurants
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 09:10:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 09:10:48 1985
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> To parents:
> 
> Parents always miss this point:  Having a kid is a choice.
> It is a choice you make for me as well as yourself.  When
> you make that choice, it is just like you taking say $100,000
> of my money and playing the stock market.  If you do a good job
> on the market, in 20 years we'll both be rich.  But, in the short
> term, I'm out $100,000, and I didn't have a say in it.  
> 
> In the long term, a tax paying employed individual is to my 
> advantage. The short term is very expensive - an expense you
> impose on me with your choice. How expensive?
> 
> With every kid:
> 
>       I have to pay for your schools
>       I have to pay for your day care
>       I have to pay for your welfare ( the old "kids shouldn't
>            suffer for parents mistakes" argument)
>       I have to pay more taxes (my dog's expenses are not deductable)
>       I have to pay for your kid's jail when you screw up ( remember
>            the kid goes to jail not you )
>       I have to pay even for your kid's swimming lessons ( True in
>            my neighborhood. )
>       The number of beer cans in my front yard will increase
>            exponentially ( unless the deposit is $5 per can )
> 
> and finally least important,
> 
>       On occasion I have to listen to a squalling urchin in a
>            restaurant (I now know what to do with that dirty napkin)
> 
> Even if you don't use public schools, don't use day care etc. you still
> are imposing on me. These institutions will always be there if you
> or your kid needs them.  It is in a sense an insurance policy
> that I buy for your kid. 
> Now, when your kid is running through my yard in the middle 
> of the night, there isn't a damn thing I can do
> about it.  Its not my yard I'm worried about; its the kid.
> If I call the cops they won't do anything. If they catch
> them they'll just talk mean and tough and take him home.
> If I catch him and take him home you'll be very indignant
> and probably sue me since "little Johnny doesn't do that sort of thing."
> The bottom line is I have to pay with no say.
> 
> After you have the kid I'll be behind you 100% for the kids sake.
> I just want you to consider the real imposition you make on the
> rest of society who chooses not to bilk the public for their own
> selfish ends. flame off.
> 
>                                    Jeff Hagen
>                                    decvax!bunker!jrh

Too bad your parents didn't think of all that before they decided on you.:-)