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Original Daily Mail long title:
Why higher benefits won’t solve child poverty: (Iain) Duncan Smith says addict parents will “waste cash on drink and drugs”
Society has been there and done that, endured the squalor, and now the leftists want to drag us backwards into the cesspool again.
1 posted on 01/30/2013 10:31:14 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

If money solved poverty there would be know poverty. America is 16 TRILLION dllars in debt because of the Government handing out money, yet we still have poverty...


2 posted on 01/30/2013 10:36:23 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: Olog-hai

“Society has been there and done that, endured the squalor, and now the leftists want to drag us backwards into the cesspool again.”

Years ago I participated in a chamber of commerce fundraising drive for the local headstart school. One day I visited the school and had a long talk with the principal. She told me many of the children of drug addicted mothers literally arrive at school in rags or underwear. Working with Goodwill, the school obtained clothes to outfit the children. The next day the children came back in rags or underwear. Social workers inquiring at the homes learned the mothers sold the good clothes the children were wearing for a fix. As a result the school began putting the children in good clothes when they arrived and redressing them in their rags when they went home in the afternoon.

We are now in the fourth and fifth generation of children growing up in this type of environment despite spending trillions of dollars. How will we ever break this cycle? It is destroying the country by creating millions of uneducated voters dependent on the state and willing to trade their liberty for more handouts.


4 posted on 01/31/2013 3:49:41 AM PST by Soul of the South
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"too many irresponsible parents will spend it on alcohol or drugs, Iain Duncan Smith has warned"

That is a stunning revelation, STUNNING!......someone tell Piers Morgan.

5 posted on 01/31/2013 3:59:45 AM PST by wesagain (The God #Elohim# of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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To: Olog-hai

Before Christmas there was a bike giveaway. They chose 300 children beforehand to receive them. There were at least 100 left. I figured there were that many parents who couldn’t even be bothered to awaken from their drunken stupor to go get a freee bike for their kid.


6 posted on 01/31/2013 5:34:20 AM PST by tiki
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To: Olog-hai

Drug test all government takers.


7 posted on 01/31/2013 5:37:18 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Olog-hai

If you want more of something you subsidize it. Why are we subsidizing bastardy and illegitimacy?


10 posted on 01/31/2013 6:04:50 AM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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