Last week, John LaBruzzo, a Republican state representative of Louisiana, proposed a solution to poverty and population control in a single move: pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.

Clearly, poverty, or what LaBruzzo specifically calls "generational poverty," is an epidemic. Poor people have children, and then guess what? The kids are poor, too.

Gee, how do we buck this trend? I know: we tell the poor people to stop having children. That way the poor people will simply grow old in their poor neighborhoods, and eventually they'll die. Then we can tear down their houses and build nice new ones for all the "generational well-off" -- you know, all the people who were born into wealthy families whom we can rely on to spawn future generations of wealthy people.

According to NOLA.com, LaBruzzo said he "worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government."

Sounds like he recently watched Mike Judge's 2006 movie Idiocracy, in which we flash-forward 500 years to a future populated entirely by idiots because back in the early 'Oughts, only the poor and moronic were having babies, while the upwardly mobile were focusing on their careers and "waiting for the right time" to bring new lives into the world. Except LaBruzzo seems to taken it for a documentary.

Here's the intro:

LaBruzzo is gathering statistics now, he told the press.

In the past week, LaBruzzo has revised the proposal to offer temporary birth control in lieu of permanent sterilization, but he's still talking about controlling the reproductive "rights" of citizens. And he maintains that his plan is not "racist," as many have stated.

"I don't know how it's eugenics if it's voluntary," he told the press. "And how can it be racist if the majority of people on welfare are white?"

The poor and copiously copulating couple at the beginning of Idiocracy are white, too, but that doesn't make their ilk any more desirable.

If all it takes to make a social engineering pogrom like this acceptable is proving that it isn't "racist" don't we run the risk of adopting other Fascist agendas under the auspices of social progress and improvement?

Let's stop talking about race for a while. Let's talk about class. Classism, after all, is the new racism.