CNBC writer: Better to die alone than die less wealthy due to having kids

Yoni Blumberg is kind of a schmuck. No, wait--he actually is a schmuck.

In an article for CNBC updated on Thursday, Blumberg writes that kids really suck and implies that it's better to die alone and rich:

Your friends may tell you having kids has made them happier. They’re probably lying. Research shows that parenthood leads to a happiness gap. Maybe that’s because the pleasures of parenthood are outweighed by all the extra responsibilities, housework and, of course, the costs.

He suggests that cost may be keeping people from having kids, since Americans are having fewer kids nowadays--especially those Americans who kill their unborn kids because of the housework and cost incurred keeping the little guys alive. Gee, in New York State you can now kill your baby a minute before he or she makes it through the birth canal. Maybe in a few more years, a-holes like Andrew Cuomo will allow mothers to have their kids killed up to the 7th trimester. Why not? Same deal.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture noted in 2017, that a child born in 2015 is expected to cost the average middle-income married couple between $12,350 and $13,900.  This means that those parents would spend about $233,610 (in 2015 dollars) on a child through the age of 17, while lower-income families would spend about $174,690 on that child, while higher-income families would spend about $372,210.

Blumberg explains just how expensive children are in their first year, explaining that one parent [who reminds me of my spinster aunt who had a money management problem: she couldn't manage to spend money without a sense of dread] tracked every penny they spent and it totaled $20,000 in the first 18 months. [This same parent also saved their used teabags and used them again three more times to save on tea bags, albeit the tea became rather weak.]

Blumberg went on to discuss additional expenses such as cost for delivery of the baby [Planned Parenthood gets government money to kill babies to save potential parents the cost.]

And then, of course, there’s college.

So who in their right mind would want to part with that kind of dough?

People who cherish the idea of parenthood and don't see kids in financial terms like Blumberg. Maybe they see societal and personal benefits, not to mention the furthering of the human species and the love of a child.

The only benefit Blumberg sees in kids is their ability to take care of you in your old age. The finger-sniffer wrote:

“If you don’t have kids, in short, you’ll save a lot of money. Then again, you might lose it all to a nursing home when there is no around to take care of you.” 

So it's better to die alone and rich than to die with your kids around you after they "cleaned you out."

What a selfish, disgusting weasel. Hopefully, he will follow his own advice and not spread his DNA around before he's gone.


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