Nehalem 256 begins with an absurdity, that women who can't "afford" children shouldn't have them, simultaneously excusing men who father them from bearing any responsibility.
The biggest problem with that, beyond his blatant misogyny, is that America needs those children, and that we can afford them, if we're only slightly more generous than Scrooge or Fagin, if we accept that we are one people, one nation, with obligations to each other beyond the conceptualizations of right wing twits.
I say we need them because we already have economic problems from the demographic bulge of baby boomers, and economic problems from the massive shift of income to the tippy top.
Rich people don't fund SS, medicare, or pensions- working stiffs do in a collective fashion. If we want to be able to survive in old age, when we can't really work any more, if we want to have medical care, then we need to be able to depend on younger people to help with that, the same way that generations of americans have done before us. If we want tosell our homes where we raised our own children at a profit, we'll need younger people to want them, to afford them, and that won't happen if there are damned few younger people.
The US birth rate is barely above replacement rate, so forced abortion will deny the future the working people we need for continuity & prosperity. We're not like China- we are not overpopulated, and it would be stupid to adopt their methods for any ends other than that. They're already having huge problems supporting their elderly, and that burden won't decrease from having fewer people to do it.
I figure it would be entirely fitting for Nehalem 256 to get old, and for younger people to take the same kind of attitude towards him that he takes towards others. If you can't be entirely self sufficient at 90, or at any age, well, it's time to punch your ticket. Or just let you starve, freeze or otherwise perish. Getting old is just stupid, right?
His own desires would make that a lot more likely, because younger workers would have proportionately too many oldsters to care for comfortably, and his "ideas" would obviously have led them to believe that short sighted greed is a virtue.
Those who live by the sword shall perish by it is a broader concept than he realizes, because there are all kinds of swords. He's swinging one himself.
Don't like the Welfare State? It's easy to say when you think you'll be rich someday, but you probably won't, particularly not if current income trends continue. You'll more likely be busted, in debt, obsolete and the rest of the right-wing-o-sphere will say it's because you're stupid and that you deserve what you're getting, even as people who never really worked at all enjoy he fruits of ownership via unlimited inheritance.