On the other hand - If the situation applies where you can't support yourself or haven't finished school then you shouldn't be having children. If you can't handle the responsibility, don't take it on. That is, if you screwed around in HS and didn't take education seriously. For others, I get that it's difficult.
It's why I say education is a "silver bullet". If you focus on getting some sort of education and training, you can pull yourself out of a lifestyle. That doesn't mean you need to go get a 4 yr degree, but get some sort of skill other than turning tricks and flipping Whoppers.
I'm all for this, but what about the women who dropped out of school? We need a plan for them so they can become productive people in our society. I don't want them to sit around all damn day spending our tax dollars.
Neither do I. They made their choice to drop out. People make it work. The day care my kid goes to isn't one of the cheapest, but it's also one of the most affordable. There are quite a few single mothers that drop off their kids before going to do shift work at Hardee's or Wal-Mart. Those two ladies, I applaud them.
I'm all for state sponsored child care for people on welfare. I don't care if it costs more. Able bodied people should work. It would teach the kids responsibility - you have to get up in the morning, take a shower, put on clothes other than pajama pants and go to work. And if they don't have a job they should have to report to a govt owned building. They can do something - paint fire hydrants, sweep the street with a broom. Or they can sit there all day in a folding chair and stare at their iphone. No staying home doing nothing.
I read an article recently about Cairo, Illinois and the demise of the community and the condition of the public housing project. They were interviewing a 20 something year old woman. She was the 3rd generation of her family to be living in public housing and on welfare. That's just wrong.
If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism. Ronald Reagan, 1975.
HI54UNI wrote:I'm all for state sponsored child care for people on welfare. I don't care if it costs more. Able bodied people should work. It would teach the kids responsibility - you have to get up in the morning, take a shower, put on clothes other than pajama pants and go to work. And if they don't have a job they should have to report to a govt owned building. They can do something - paint fire hydrants, sweep the street with a broom. Or they can sit there all day in a folding chair and stare at their iphone. No staying home doing nothing.
I read an article recently about Cairo, Illinois and the demise of the community and the condition of the public housing project. They were interviewing a 20 something year old woman. She was the 3rd generation of her family to be living in public housing and on welfare. That's just wrong.
I can bet that education was not a focus in her family. Now that is sad.
