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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246174)	3/2/2014 2:38:21 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542155

My kids have parents who work- some work more than two jobs, and probably still need assistance to live- as this is an expensive area. I can only imagine the nightmare these families would have without government assistance. Perhaps you'd like them all to move somewhere where the cost of living is low? I can't imagine what you are imagining would happen in the "short" term if what you suggest were tried. You can imagine the hardship and chaos you would create, right? For your social experiment.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246174)	3/2/2014 4:55:09 PM
From: freelyhovering	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542155

"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".