$5000 ain't diddlysquat. No one is getting uplifted by this dumb PR ploy.

Of course these perverts don't care once the fetus is outside of the mother. No help for medical bills, parental leave, childcare, education, healthcare, etc.

As the parent of a son in his 3rd year at UCSD here in California, the $1 million is a low estimate.

And those are 2009 numbers. https://business.time.com/2009/09/18/1-1-million-cost-to-raise-a-child-from-birth-through-college/

One went to a small state (MD) college.

The other put herself through City College of San Francisco for about $60 per credit hour.

My parents paid almost nothing for my college education (which I didn't complete.)

I'm absolutely certain that the value of a degree is much less than it used to be; yet the costs keep rising astronomically.

My daughter has a son who will be one year old in mid-May. They have NOT spent $20,000 on him in his first year. That's $385.00 per week.

19k per year sounds like a great deal!

Costs have exploded.

And as the kid gets older, you need a bigger house, that 1 bedroom apartment won't do. And a bigger car too. You'll need an SUV, because that little Corolla hatchback won't cut it for hauling around soccer and camping crap - all of which also costs lots of money. And God help you if your kid gets involved in club sports teams, which will run you $3k-$5k per year. My kid played club soccer since he was 7. Then there's school, toys and electronics, clothes, food, childcare/babysitters and healthcare. And that's assuming your kid is healthy. If your kid is born with a handicap, all bets are off.

As the parent of a 21 year old in college, I can attest that those numbers are pretty accurate for raising a kid in a middle class lifestyle.

pay someone to get knocked up.

It's like winning the lottery...

🤣🤣🤣

$25 minimum wage and affordable housing

Covers about 6 m0nths of the child's life. What about the next 18 years? Morons

😊

I'm sure it's much more now.

And who's gonna pay for the childcare or time lost from work?

trip to Las Vegas where they all turn it into BIG MONEY with their surefire "system" they learned on YouTube. 😉

The child? MAGA granny will take care of the kid while they break the bank in Vegas. Then they'll rely on their local food bank and the church to provide the most basic needs. Voilà! A brand new ignorant MAGAt for the right-wing to brainwash with their "America First" propaganda.

Trouble is, it's a MAGA scheme destined to succeed, considering the sheer magnitude of dumb-shits in the U.S. right now.

Trump circa 2025 is unquestionably the dumbest man to ever assume the presidency, now actually further dimminished from the previous dumbest man - Trump circa 2017. History will record the damage and the end of the American hemegony that he wrought. The final toll will be immense and last for generations.

I hope the people who voted for this outcome live through all of the aftermath. I hope they suffer. I hope they see their families shredded and their lives destroyed and that they have to tell their children and grandchilden that it was THEIR fault for choosing this mess. I hope they have to lie dying on their death beds and are forced to unburden their souls with the truth, that they must look into the disillusioned and pained eyes of their children and admit: "I did it because the internet memes made me unable to vote of the clearly qualified and superior mental cnadidate because it was 1) a "she" , 2) not white, and 3) the othjer internet tough guys would make fun of me and call me a crass term for vaginas and I lacked the guts to do the right thing.

I hope the dying words of every one of thes miserable scumbag fuckwads is "I'm sorry. I'm so very sorry." as they die watching the faces of their loved ones grimace in horror at them one final time.

Remember, the $5,000 is only for those eligible to be a Brown Shirt.

We need to breed only the right people.

If they really wanted more children born to ensure the future of America, they would stop destroying the economy, invest in PUBLIC education, universities, healthcare, the environment, infrastructure, etc.. You know, everything that ACTUALLY makes a country great.

Instead they're turning the USA into a dystopian nightmare while asking why couples refuse to bring children into the world.

Morons.

Witch Dr. Oz said you were too poor for insurance. Don't forget to say thank-you.

LOL. Give me a fucking break. At this point, you'd have to offer seven figures a year for the rest of my life to even consider it, and on a purely ethical level, I still wouldn't be able to do it.

Personally, I wouldn't wish anyone to be born into the society they are creating.

And what's with these idiots thinking any American can be bribed with one-time payments of $5k, anyway? That's the same number they floated for their fantasy "DOGE checks", too. Fucking clowns.

They will have too many kids anyway, so the payment is a good deal.

One of my fundie nieces married a guy who is competing with his mother for number of kids birthed. His Mom had 12 so they intend to produce more. It proves they are god's chosen.

He’s obsessed with babies.

I can hear Jeffrey Epstein laughing from the grave: “Good one, Donny! Fresh meat!”

But how will they keep the 5k only for white babies?

crib sheet and a hood???

....with these christo-fascists.

She's a big baby

We have a friend who told us to expect a $5,000 DOGE check pretty soon.

We'll see that one very soon after all the manufacturing comes back to the US. And when all the bureaucrats are employed putting tiny little screws into
I-phones. So if you go ahead and have a baby, don't hold your breath waiting for the baby check.

will shithole musk republicans want the 5 thousand plus interest back?

Under the new Gilead regime, will make sure the woman gets pregnant.

One way or the other, if you catch my drift.

The new mission and meaning of ICE will be

Immigration and Conception Enforcement

that $5,000 will almost take care of the first trimester.

Will Dear Leader grace us with a "Mother's Cross" to signify our contribution to the health of the nation? (Provided, of course, the child meets all the rigid qualification standards -- size, weight, health, color?) Or will these children be conceived under a Lebensborn program, and be raised by the State?

Can't wait to tell my wife about this. We're both crossing the threshold of our 70s this year but maybe we can get an advance on the $5K if we make a Trumpian promise to go through with something we have no intention or capability of doing, just like Dear Leader does on a daily basis.

Plus, I agree that he only cares about White babies and we outlawed "Whites Only" laws a long time ago. I wonder if Uncle Clarence would go as far as outlawing himself to please Trump.

We already have an overpopulation problem on the planet, taxes on the poor, a desire for cheap labor and increasing need for cannon fodder.

credit of about the same amount?

It's apparently a 1-time payment to breed babies.

...to increase Germany’s population.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensborn-program

It immediately came to my mind.
Everyone: click the link and see what Trump learned from "Mein Kampf" at the side of his bed.

Let's prove them wrong.

I assume that it'll be subject to income tax, which will make the real amount even less.

It suggests that what women put into raising a child is not much.

It makes me angry at how little this regime values women.

That won’t cut it.

After the baby is born, you get your $5,000 and, as always you are on your own. Fuck them.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

the Republicans were constantly harping about "welfare mom's" abusing the system by having "extra" kids to get more money. This is no different as it ain't FAT DonOLD paying for it. It's taxpayers.

To combat the centuries of discrimination of white America, the new babies must be white Christian Americans to qualify for the $5,000 and must be named Donald or Donatella.

Sure thing, Sparky. Let's discuss the gutting of the FDA (safe food) and your unequivocal support of the Sacred Second Amendment (safe schools).

a cash bonus for getting pregnant?

It's just spit in the wind compared to what it actually costs to birth and raise a kid.
Add to the pure hell kind of society that the Christofascists want to create, why would anyone with a caring heart and a functioning brain want to have kids?!?
Any woman with any smarts at all will prefer to participate in the 4B movement, at least until men quit trying to turn us into a real life version of The Handmaid's Tale.
Is A Dick brainless POS can take a flying leap at himself and take the freaking incels with him, preferably to Mars, with no support and no return ticket.

Pretty sure my 2 1/2 yo granddaughter will go thru $5k of diapers alone. And they seem to need to be fed, clothed, transported, medically treated, entertained, some even educated to a high level. (Although THEY would probably be willing to forego this, especially for the girls).

They're trying to convince MAGA men that they can still get laid.

these times are so much worse than interesting. they're truly insane.

the handmaids are almost here.

Roaming around and rounding up all the “illegal” immigrants?

As we approach Gilead level crap, the new meaning of ICE could simply be:

Immigration and Conception Enforcement.

Same acronym, same uniform, same authoritarianism.

JFC

de facto "baby farms" where women who are incarcerated for other things are "offered" the alternative of serving their time making babies? What is really at the heart of this is the White Supremacist theory about being replaced.

It never has. It's been tried before, and does not result in more babies.

Women, the very vast majority of women, don't want as many babies as their bodies can bear. They want one or two or maybe three, and that's enough, thank you very much.

And childbirth. You'd be in debt on day one.

to care for kids? (steps are needed beyond unpaid family leave)

The world is WAY to damn over crowded as it is. The congestion is overwhelming. We need a much lower birthrate, not more babies. Particularly babies according to some rightwing plan.

And, even though it's been pointed out here, $5k isn't anywhere near the cost of birthing a baby and raising a child to adulthood. Even if everything goes right, which it usually does not.

to the Wife, the Handmaid or the Commander?

ICE

Immigration and Conception Enforcement.

Paid maternity leave/ paternity leave, healthcare, the right to chose if her fetus is not viable, the right to chose in any circumstances, access to birth control, subsidized childcare, food for every American, quality education, DEI to ensure equal access to quality jobs……this $5k is of zero consequence. Forcing women into poverty to create children that will have zero future is a laughable venture! Reproduction for cannon fodder is never going to be a marketable concept here!

Like I want to scream. So many layers of "bad idea" here. Countless layers.

Just like he didn't raise taxes on millionaires while supposedly briefly considering such.

...that we don't have enough schools, bed space in Labor, Delivery and Recovery centers, pediatricians, or affordable housing to increase the birth rate much over what it is now.

Then there's the supply of food and water.

Past what the rest of y'all are discussing, all of which are valid, we simply don't have the infrastructure to turn the women of America into serial baby-making machines like Musk wants to do.

Let's see...19 kids X $5,000 comes to 95 grand. Wow, that's almost enough to pay for Josh Duggar's defense lawyer at his child pornography trial.

For the summer.

And not be left with lifetime expenses.

They definitely don't want them out in the workforce taking jobs from men and making the men look bad by doing so.

instead of subsidizing daycare, family leave and the support offered by the Scandinavian Social Democracies!!!

KOMRAD KRAZNOV has never been in touch with reality and, clearly neither are most GOP/MAGA politicians.

The question is "are their supporters so stupid they will buy into this?"

hoping to shut everyone one up with his "generosity".

I DO NOT support paying parents to have more kids.

No freaking way. I will be as adamant about this as those insufferable anti-abortion activists are about funding for planned parenthood and allowing insurance companies to cover birth control.

Will only white people qualify? 8 billion people in the world.

even if it's a normal one. MAGAt math is at it again.

No reproductive or healthcare rights for women, yet wants to
bribe them to get pregnant?

Sheesh

You know there will be guys wanting half the money.

The US population forecast, especially with Trump's immigration policies, is headed downward.



They need to figure out a way to grow the population without immigration and this is it.

Checks out?