[Star Traveler]

No ... I’m not saying that people can’t ask for help, but that it’s not the government’s position to set up “programs” to do this. As conservatives here on this forum have said before ... the government should not be in the business of “handouts” ... but rather neighbors and friends and churches and private organizations.

STOP the government from taking our TAX MONEY and forcing us to help who the GOVERNMENT thinks needs help, and leave it in the hands of PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS to give as they see fit for themselves. I believe THAT is the conservative position ... namely not to refuse to give help, but to give help freely of one’s own CHOICE and do so privately, without government coercion!

[workerbee]

How does your position help the mother in this article, RIGHT NOW? Tell us, specifically, what should she do?! She has a 12 yr old who has already attempted to molest her 4 yr old. WHAT does she do? Chain him outside? Lock him in a closet? Is that acceptable to you, that she go to jail and her other children get fostered, in order to preserve some sort of "conservative" principle you think needs upholding?