Journal Cyberdyne's Journal: $89,000 a year in benefits - and it's not enough 11
Scary. One woman in England, with fifteen children (plus seven miscarriages) is claiming welfare payments equivalent to an $89,000/yr salary - in addition to free housing, healthcare and education, of course. Last Christmas she spent around $9k, including two PS2s, two TVs and a few bicycles. Her comment on this? The house the taxpayer provides for her isn't big enough. Never a thought of trying to earn money herself to fund her way of life, of course: that's everyone else's problem...
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And, with no mention of a husband, if she is a single parent, I imagine taking care of 15 kids is so tiring...I couldn't imagine trying to carry a job and then properly care for fifteen children. (Well, I can't imagine doing so for just one, thus I am and plan to be childfree.)
I guess people can say she should have kept her legs closed, but it is a little late fo
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Nope - he tried working once, but there was more money in not working, so he quit after seven days.
I imagine $90k isn't enough to take care of 15 children (in fact, math tells you it isn't. I know that people make it along with themselves and a child for $6000k, but the cost of diapers and clothing and food...and imagine what kind of car she has to have to drive around 15 kids...
I imagine she
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Same here.
The solution is simple: Take the kids away from her. Now. Today. 14 kids - she's in it for the money. 0 kids - no money.
The public is paying for it anyway - better to make an example, and get the kids out of what has got to be one fucked-up family situation, and not have to have them repeat the cycle in a few years.
We've had cases here where women have paid guys to get pregnant so
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Yes - actually, that paragraph reminded me of someone I know personally. During one job interview, at the standard "have you any questions?" bit, her question was "will getting this [well paid, full time gover
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Makes you wonder who's buying the big-screen TVs. I know that in one case (a couple of months ago), its another welfare mom who managed to scam my aunt's credit card to the tune of $4,900.00 in just under 3 days, including a 42"
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Oh, no - the guy is off in another country, working "off the books" and sending money back to her so it doesn't affect her welfare income. Mind you, she did make some effort:
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Asking the taxpayers to support your children is essentially asking them to abstain from supporting children of their own in order to support yours. And why is that fair?
I think very few people would really want to see welfare payments cut altogether and children of income-less families thrown out into the gutter to fend for themselves. However, there's a qualititive differe
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In theory, I would agree that she shouldn't have had that many because she can't support them.
Okay. But what do we do about the fifteen children that exist regardless of sense? The only way to make her not have that many children would be to take them away from her and
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In my opinion, the responsibility of society (or, if you like, the taxpayer) to care for those children involves making sure that they are adequately clothed and fed, have a (decent) roof over their heads, and access to educational and health facilities.
I refuse to see it as 'suffering' if those children do not have PS2s, do not have more than one family TV, have no bicycles, and have to share their rooms with their siblings: families
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It isn't fair. I was commenting on giving her the minimum possible to take care of all 15 comfortably. I apologize for poo
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