On Sep 14, 3:27*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> Omelet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > *Dave Smith > wrote:
>
> >> What do you do in a case like that. He is a woman who was raised on
> >> welfare, whose college education subsidized and received student grants,
> >> who had the opportunity to get education and training to help her find
> >> meaningful employment. But she knew that the system would support her,
> >> so she intentionally got herself pregnant knowing that she could stay
> >> home and not have to work. That was the way she was raised, and there is
> >> a good chance that her kid will grow up with the same mind set.
>
> > That appears to be the problem in New Orleans...
>
> > The Answer?
>
> > No welfare. Period. Government home work programs! *If you get welfare,
> > you do SOMETHING to earn it! Even if it's just sewing military uniforms
> > at home...
>
> And if they don't perform?? *Fire them and let them starve? I don't
> think so.
>
> In the good old days they had debtors prisons, and babies were taken
> from poor single mothers and put up for adoption. I hope there is ahappy
> medium.

A modest proposal? It didn't fly in Ireland but Swift might have been
on to something.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada