# Octomom resurfaces; supposedly planning to go back on welfare **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 19, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301 "2010-09-19T16:49:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/1 "2010-09-19T16:49:47Z")
[‘Octomom’ may go on welfare to make ends meet](http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/entertainment&id=7675630&rss=rss-kabc-article-7675630) I’m sure the only reason that she is bringing this into the media is to get people to feel sorry for the kids and give her more free stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/2 "2010-09-19T17:23:39Z")
She has a mortgage of $4000 per month? Someone is living waaaaaaaaaay over her means. Of course, she isn’t know for her good judgement. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/3 "2010-09-19T17:25:29Z")
I’m just excited we found an example of the illusive species known as the “Welfare Queen”. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/4 "2010-09-19T17:27:30Z")
She better use growth hormones on those kids show she can rent them out as laborers at an earlier age. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/5 "2010-09-19T17:28:35Z")
I’m still on the lookout for the Cadillac-sheathed, _Africanus_ variety which subsists on Porterhouse steaks and scrimps. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/6 "2010-09-19T17:37:32Z")
Out of curiosity, how much money does she stand to pull in a month with all those kids? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/7 "2010-09-19T17:57:10Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Out of curiosity, how much money does she stand to pull in a month with all those kids? That depends on what the kiddie-pornographers and pedophiles are willing to pay. Oh… perhaps you were referring to government assistance. I’m not aware of any government subsidies to support kiddie-pornographers and pedophiles. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/8 "2010-09-19T17:59:05Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Out of curiosity, how much money does she stand to pull in a month with all those kids? Maybe she can use them as organ farms. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/9 "2010-09-19T18:26:34Z")
Perhaps the good doctor who helped her conceive would be willing to pay child support. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/10 "2010-09-19T19:05:21Z")
IIRC, when he was recently brought up on ethics charges, she defended him, and said something like, “and if I were to use his services again…” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/11 "2010-09-19T19:41:42Z")
Can we ban ALL people who misuse fertility treatments and/or overbreed from the airwaves? I would be delighted if I never heard from Jon or Kate let alone the Duggers (who are probably going to announce impending baby number 20 any day now? :rolleyes:) Anyone famous solely for having too many children by any rational standard should not be allowed within ten miles of a television camera. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/12 "2010-09-19T20:48:07Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Anyone famous solely for having too many children by any rational standard should not be allowed within ten miles of a television camera. I second the motion. ---
**Author:** ![Al\_Bundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@Al\_Bundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al_Bundy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/13 "2010-09-19T21:04:43Z")
She never seems to be short of food and I bet she smokes in private. She knows the public system will take care of those kids. She wants to go along. In the past, she was collecting a substantial monthly sum including disability on two kids I believe. The stardom cash may have made her ineligible and she wants to get back to normal. I don’t understand these women with eight kids including Kate. Who cares. Well, I guess many wish to watch the train wreck. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/14 "2010-09-19T21:06:44Z")
I have nothing but sympathy for her children. She couldn’t support the six she already had, and had already broken her parents financially. Now she’s got eight more that she can’t support. I’d bet money that they wind up in foster care. It’s going to be a tough childhood for them, and I hope they make it through all right. Her narcissistic ass, on the other hand, can wind up standing by a freeway off-ramp with a tin cup in her hand for all I care. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/15 "2010-09-19T21:39:50Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Anyone famous solely for having too many children by any rational standard should not be allowed within ten miles of a television camera. God willing, this TV fad shall also pass into the night, and some years from now we’ll be grateful that these shows are no longer on the air. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/16 "2010-09-19T22:00:03Z")
Eh, she’s still a better person than anyone on _Glee_. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/17 "2010-09-19T22:17:30Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > > [@LavenderBlue](#): > > > > Anyone famous solely for having too many children by any rational standard should not be allowed within ten miles of a television camera. > > I second the motion. Anyone who pimps their children out (one kid or Duggar +(n)) for reality tv at all should not be allowed within ten miles of a camera, and could probably use some assistance from the local child welfare team about learning the appropriate treatment of minors who have no legal rights of refusal to whatever famewhoreing their putative caregivers dream up. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/18 "2010-09-19T22:51:29Z")
> [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > Eh, she’s still a better person than anyone on _Glee_. You do know that “anyone on _Glee_” consists of _actors_ playing fictional characters in fictional stories, whereas Octomom represents _a real person_ who is making decisions that affect _the real lives of real children_ (and her parents), right? So, it’s apples and oranges to compare the creation and depiction of characters on a TV show perhaps doing/being things you don’t like to someone who, in the wake of several very bad or, at the very least, iffy real-life decisions manages to get a TV show. Or, were just trying to be oh-so-hip and counter-cultural and above it all? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/19 "2010-09-19T23:56:47Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > > [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > > > Eh, she’s still a better person than anyone on _Glee_. > > You do know that “anyone on _Glee_” consists of _actors_ playing fictional characters in fictional stories Yes. > [@](#): > > Or, were just trying to be oh-so-hip and counter-cultural and above it all? Nope, I was just hoping some humorless cretin like you would flip out like you did. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/20 "2010-09-20T00:00:15Z")
Sorry, guy, no flip-out. Try again. Or, perhaps not. All over the SDMB today you’re sucking at this. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301.md?page=2)