Not saying that's not true, but again, you only say cut welfare... Welfare is not the problem... It's how welfare is designed... I actually have a fool proof method to fix welfare, but no one would want to hear it, so I keep it to myself.
...I know exactly what you are talking about.
But I'll say it out loud.
Offer every woman over the age of eighteen a cheque for $5,000 every six months when she shows up at the doctors office to be implanted with a contraceptive hormone dispensing nodule.
Just pop it in under the skin, a couple of stiches and voila!: no more periods, no more mood swings, no more pregnancies... for at least six months, till the implant dissolves. For girls under 18 a sliding scale is probably more appropriate; $500 bonus for 12 year-olds (just to be safe); scaling up to nearly $5,000 for 17 year-olds.
Might sound expensive, but guys will gladly pay the extra taxes involved for the benefit of living alongside horny unemotional tomboys. The government can make back most of the outlay (after a few years) by the dramatic reduction in welfare costs; followed by a dramatic reduction in crime; then by a dramatic reduction in the prison population.
Worst case scenario, a heavy tax on designer shoes would recoup most of the cost.
Offering a $50,000 bonus to every couple with IQs above 120 for each kid they have would also help.
Want kids? Forgo your $5,000 cheque.
Academic? Rather than work in a university for shitty wages, work in a university for shitty wages and marry some saucy librarian so you can rack up those bonuses!
Now that's thinking outside the box.
The Luke