Posted on 01/11/2014 9:57:32 PM PST by moonshinner_09
AN Adelaide family has made a personal appeal to US President Barack Obama to release their daughter from a prison where she is serving time for stealing food stamps from the US Government. The single mother of two young has spent the past year in jail after the FBI arrested her for using a false social security number to try and obtain food stamps so she could feed her two young daughters. Louise Early's family, in Adelaide's south, say she was homeless and driven to desperation after her seven-year marriage to Eugene Early, a US marine, broke down and he failed to apply for her to become a citizen.The Australian Foreign Affairs Department then botched her passport application for more than six months so she could not bring the girls home, during which time she was arrested. Ms Early's visually impaired mother Jenny Smith, 62, of Hackham said she had brought her two grandchildren home from Baltimore last February but now feared Louise's multiple medical problems meant she would not make it home. The girls, Jenae 8 and Kaylea 7, are living with Jenny and their grandfather John, are attending an Adelaide school and have pleaded for the safe return of their mother. Their house in Hackham is adorned with family photographs, messages of love and support and mementos of their lives in the US and here.
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I would steal but I would not beg.
So say who?
Think what you want... my kids have never heard me say any such a thing. And they never will hear it either.
BUT, my kids come first and I’ll do whatever it takes. My prayer is that lawbreaking of any form is not required. If it IS ever required.... SSN fraud is on the mild end of the scale; and that is my real point. At least this lady’s crime wasn’t armed robbery, murder, etc.
BUT, my kids come first and I’ll do whatever it takes. My prayer is that lawbreaking of any form is not required. If it IS ever required.... SSN fraud is on the mild end of the scale; and that is my real point. At least this lady’s crime wasn’t armed robbery, murder, etc.
Ones duty to his children is manifold. There is the duty to support them in terms of food and shelter but there is also the matter of their moral upbringing and his example to them. Deciding which commandments apply to you is not a good example.
I would steal but I would not beg.
On account of you have so much pride...
Yes, although I spent 20 years in the military, all of them under the poverty level, I never once asked for assistance of any kind. I often worked as many as three part time jobs is addition to my military duties. By the way, I went back 5 years later and paid the store back the $15 worth of ham and bread.
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