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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246163)	3/2/2014 2:19:04 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542152

Screwing brought those kids in to the world. I'm not sure you can blame the welfare system for that. Are you thinking you can starve the screwing out of people? or that by starving them they'll become responsible? I have not seen that happen anywhere else- what makes you think it will work here? It's never worked historically speaking. I mean if you starve them to death it might work- is that what you had in mind?

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246163)	3/2/2014 3:20:34 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542152

Reform the "have a kid for free on the government mentality" and we start to get at the root of parental dysfunction. You certainly see the effect, I'm mystified why the "cause" remains hidden to you. Completely wrong approach in my view. You will have more starving kids and parents, more disease, etc. Rather it means, as a policy argument, putting more money into schools. Since kids from these kinds of homes show up with less parental "stuff," in your argument, the schools need to be able to do more. Given our twisted political culture at the moment, which seems to always run counter to good policy proposals, it won't happen. But that doesn't mean we should give in.