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Default Welfare babies,

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.


>
> NO free ride!