I think that the term "needy famblee" is synonymous with "careless breeders who don't plan ahead," and I have NO desire to donate one thin dime to any of them. Why does it always have to be a "famblee" that is "needy"? Could it possibly be that there are so few singletons or childess(for whatever reason) couples who are "needy," that it never occurred to whoever coined the phrase "needy famblee" to call it anything other than that??? A "needy famblee" very likely wouldn't be "needy" if they were not a "famblee" of self replicants in the first place. "Needy famblees" already get free food, housing, medical care and God only knows what else, NOW they have to financially rape more tax payers for their Santa Claus too?
Santa Claus brings me to another point. That is, why in the world would a "needy famblee" parent perpetuate a fantasy like that in the first place? Only one of two things winds up happening when they do. 1) The project brats get a HUGE loot via donations or maybe their baybee daddy made a good drug sale, and a sense of entitlement is encouraged. or 2) They don't get shit and they can't understand why they are being punished when they have been "good". They begin at an early age thinking that good behavior is not rewarded, but that the shitty welfare kyds next door, with the "Big Christmas", were rewarded for their bad behavior or that both their neighbors' bad behavior and their good behavior was overlooked by Santa, so what's the point? (they may wonder)
Personally, I think that the Santa Claus myth needs to be universally changed from a literal person who rewards good behavior and punishes bad via of literal presents, to the legend/fable (yeah, I KNOW there was a "real St Nick, I mean the red suited Santa) that it actually is and explained from the very beginning that it's all about the spirit of giving, loving, etc.....rather than some fat white man in a red suit who literally squeezes down a chimney, which of course is RIDICULOUS and confusing to smart young children. I think that it's mental child abuse to allow poor kyds to believe that if they are really really "good", that Santa will give them lots of nice presents. I think it's quite sad to imagine a poor/indigent kyd on Christmas morning who gets nothing but some used clothes and a candy cane (if that) in comparison to the poor/indigent kyd next door who had some charity load up his gift bag with the latest and most expensive electronics, games, and a shiny new bike. I can't begin to imagine how confusing and hurtful that must be.
So, I think we need to blow the Santa myth out of the water and then NO kids will expect anything beyond what they get year around. Maybe that way there won't be so many "needy famblee" charities and perhaps some of these welfare kyds can get a dose of realism early on and do something about their pathetic and often dire living situations as they get older. As long as they think that Santa or some charity will bail them out, they will likely wind up living on A street Apt.2, right next door to their moomie in the projects. They will wind up teaching THEIR kyds that Santa and St. Mary's charity will take care of the needs that the government hand outs don't meet. The childed would say I am mean and cruel, but I think what THEY do as far as Santa for some and not others is VERY cruel. If they can't give equally and across the board (which they can not possibly)then they don't need to give to a "needy kyd" at all. It's a vicious cycle and "Santa" only perpetuates it. IMHO.
Signed
MS. Scrooge