I’m sure you’ve seen the headlines and the CNN specials regarding the amazing birth of eight babies to Nadya Suleman, 33, a single mother of six children. When the captivating story was first told, people “ooh’dâ€Â and “aah’dâ€Â from coast to coast. It wasn’t until the story was told in all of its brutal truth that the questions began.

The woman is unemployed and receiving disability for three of her children. Before the eight new babies, she required $500 in food stamps to feed her family in a given month. Nadya Suleman owes $50,000 in student loan debts, and is now collecting donations via the family̢۪s new Web site. She currently resides with her mother, who filed for bankruptcy herself last year.

This doesn̢۪t sound like a woman who needed in-vitro fertilization involving multiple embryos.

Proponents say it’s nobody’s business but hers concerning how many children she has. Tax money is being used to support eight more children Suleman knew she couldn’t afford instead of going towards important public works projects in this waning economy. If this isn’t my business, whose business is it?

After I read the article explaining the background of the single mother of 14, I was left with a sour taste in my mouth. It was the same disgusting tang I experience when reading about bailout recipient business executives gifted with bonuses equaling what a blue-collar worker makes in five years.

In a way, Suleman’s story echoes the problems that led to the economic crises the U.S. is still battling today. For example, buying a $250,000 home when someone works at a job that pays $25,000 a year. The consumer seems to understand that most of the money they will pay back on that $700 a month mortgage payment will go towards interest, yet they sign on anyway. Do they realize how difficult it will be to pay off — if not impossible?

Naturally, I ask myself what the common denominator between these seemingly different circumstances actually is. Who is responsible for derailing irresponsible people that seek to cadger money from the system by unethical means?

Do we look to the asinine doctor who implanted six embryos into Nadya Suleman knowing full well how dangerous it could have been? How about the “devil-may-careâ€Â loan officer who drew up the 40-year mortgage to a family of five which never had the means to pay off the house?

What I see in all of these instances is ignorance and irresponsibility run amok. The bank officials giving bad loans, Nadya Suleman blatantly disregarding the monetary responsibility of having eight more children and the business executive receiving a bonus for poor management techniques, all seem to be cut from the same cloth. An impetuous cloth flushed by carelessness, clogging the plumbing of post-millennium America.

What disturbs me most in all of these issues, is the logic behind the decisions made by legally sane people. It is obvious that a large number of Americans need to be watched closely; not by those who would stand to make profit off of their ignorance, but by those who are intelligent enough to say, “that’s stupid, maybe you shouldn’t do it.â€Â