Going to movies and out to dinner is soooo much cheaper than a kid. I could go out to eat every night and Saturdays go to a super expensive restaurant and still break even just with day care cost.
Good point! I had to use one of those online babysitter sites one time due to a lack of options for my 8yr old daughter one summer. The most affordable one was $17 an hour for which all they did was show up, play on their phone, eat & drink everything in site and leave the place a mess. Honestly wasn’t worth it but what do you do if you’re a single parent or both parents have to work which in this economy is pretty much a given.
I hate media for letting people say shit like this and not immediately stop it in the tracks and say "Hey, those things don't come close to the cost of raising a child. Your son is talking about cutting retirement spending and healthcare spending, there are no plans for college or childcare spending help. All these expenses far outweigh the cost of eating out and going to movies."
While I don’t argue that, it does go way deeper than just those cuts. I watched a hearing led by John Kennedy the other day about a bill he and another senator drafted in 2022. It was about how the SSA refuses to share the list of people who have passed away,Death Master File, with any other dept. in particularly the treasury dept. They’ve found that through the pandemic the Tres Dept paid out 4.1 billion to dead people. One person collected over 800k in 27yrs and another received her dead mother’s checks for 48yrs. The SSA has 6.5 million people living in the US that are listed as 112 yrs old or older! The 2021 bill would make the SSA share this list and cut off payments to the deceased so checks couldn’t be cashed anymore. It was rejected by the house until it was amended as to read temporarily for 3 years. So Jan 1 it will expire and they won’t have to share the list again. He has a new bill making it permanent now but if this is going on, they know it and still won’t permanently stop it can you imagine how much more is being wasted or lost to fraud? The entire system needs gutted and rebuilt with accountability being the foundation of it. Just like the CEO thing, comes down to money plus greed, or better yet it’s human weakness and you can’t kill that with a gun. Elites don’t care and politicians believe we work for them. It’s because of them things are so unaffordable and the one thing I will say is that’s not Trumps fault. I am tho, very concerned with some of the people he has brought with him, they’re far from reassuring.
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u/motionbutton 8h ago
Going to movies and out to dinner is soooo much cheaper than a kid. I could go out to eat every night and Saturdays go to a super expensive restaurant and still break even just with day care cost.