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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246174)3/2/2014 4:55:09 PM
From: freelyhovering  Read Replies (3) of 542169
 
"I would bet you almost any amount of reasonable money that cutting off welfare going forward would significantly reduce the out of wedlock birth rate and give a kid a shot of having two semi functional --read working--parents to start their life with. It's certainly gotta be worth a shot compared to what your faced with in terms of having to deal with kids who only eat when at school and binge on Red Bull etc."

You would lose the bet. Having been an AFDC worker before my current career, I know the territory well. (In Watts) What you would have, in addition to starvation, would be more theft, drugs and more babies out of wedlock. Desperate people do desperate things. I think we think it is still wrong to hand out free condoms--even though many would not use them, it would be a start. If you will excuse the pun, a "head start".
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