Recession Spurring an Uptick in Vasectomies

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Doctors are reporting a sharp rise in requests for vasectomies since the economy went into recession.

This is particularly true in New York, where hospitals have shown about a 50 percent increase in the procedure since last year, with nearly 50 percent of these new patients coming from the financial sector.

According to doctors who perform the surgery in the Big Apple, the newly snipped former Masters of the Universe have been citing the significant cost of raising children as the reasoning behind their decision.

There has been a rush to punish the folks on Wall Street folks for steering our economy into a ditch. But really, what can we do to them that's any worse than what they are currently doing to their genitals?

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