South Korea gives families roughly $75,000 per child plus lifetime benefits to fight its falling birth rate. The U.S. offers far less: WIC covers formula, frozen vegetables, juice, and peanut butter. The speaker argues America should take notes.
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All right, so South Korea, uh, paying their citizens $75,000 to encourage them to have babies. So if they spit out 5 babies, they get $75,000 apiece plus full benefits. Now here's my thing, I'm like, why is South Korea giving their citizens $75,000? Okay, they're saying that their population is severely decreasing. So is the United States of America. That's why they locking y'all up down there, high-fiving each other at these unalive clinics, okay? Now listen, um, I'm just— I'm a little jealous over what South Korea got going on because I'm like, y'all giving y'all citizens $75,000 full benefits plus welfare for the rest of their life, and all we get over here is welfare? What, what do they call them little, uh, uh, WIC? Two cans of Similac, a pack of, uh, uh, frozen peas and carrots, and two bottles of juice and, and some peanut butter for a baby?