Check it out!

A friend sent me this link in an e-mail and I thought it was good enough to pass on. I was just listening to the Pres. Obama press conference last night and telling Jeff how glad I am that we have made it a priority not to get into a mess of debt and how blessed we are to have savings.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/01/frugal-americans-hurt-economic-recovery/

14 children!

I know this lady with the 8 babies has been all over the news especially after people found out she had 6 more at home but I just have to comment. I think it is none of our business how many kids someone else has and if you want a big family more power to you BUT.... What was she thinking! It would be one thing if you have a husband and supportive extended family but to do it as a single mom? Is she out of her mind? The way I see it you'd have two choices in this situation either spend all your time making money to support the little darlings or live off welfare and charity and spend all your time raising the kids. I don't know if I could do either. My pride wouldn't let me live off others (especially when I created the situation,) and I would continuously feel enormous amounts of guilt if I had all these children I couldn't spend any time with. I saw a clip of an interview and she said she did it because she loves children, always wanted a big family and wants to spend her life raising and loving her kids. I think she is a little dilusional if she thinks she can do it all by herself. At the same time there is John and Kate with all thier kids and I don't feel the same way about them. Of course they have had to make sacrifices and compromises along the way too I'm sure ( I don't think I would want my family life paraded on a tv show.) I love the kids I have and would like a big family but I'm glad its not me in her situation!