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If one needs to be paid cash to be a decent and responsible individual, our society is in trouble. Liberals think people can be motivated to be good by bribing them. They have it exactly backwards. Good people have the RIGHT values. DUH

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

In a good, loving, supportive, normal family, there are expected modes of behavior. You do not lie. You do not cheat. You do not steal. You give your best to whatever you pursue...school, sports, arts, etc. This is universal, whether a family is poor or affluent. Typically, poor families with solid values and good habits don't stay poor; generations rise up the social ranks and lift the family in total.

A lot of children have little or NO guidance. Their role models are the TV, badly behaving sports stars, or gangsta rap stars. This is particularly true of the urban poor. Not only is their home life lacking, they don't have a social network of support to help them climb up and out. If anything, the culture, the values being presented to them are selfish, short-sighted, and destructive in the end.

I've seen people be the "bull in the china shop of their life." Damn stupid choices, over and over again, justified in their warped outlook of the world. Who pays for it the most? Their precious, innocent kids...and society - the taxpayers!

I'd rather spend a little on the kids and show them the RIGHT way to live, giving them the opportunity to be productive citizens, because this will save a bundle down the road on social services and jail costs. Part of doing that has to be changing the way the parents actually parent.

Bloomberg is raising PRIVATE money, not using tax dollars to implement this pilot program. If it's a bust, then a bunch of liberals will have tossed good money after bad. If it works, though, it will save US - the taxpayers - a bunch down the road.