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**layedgebiamma** · 09-16-2011, 07:44 PM

If we're talking "normal" unemployed (meaning non-elderly able bodied), give them the normal six months unemployment, then they're on their own. If they end up living under a bridge, so be it. However, that doesn't happen in the vast majority of cases. Looking into the abyss is very motivating. People figure out how to get by.

The people you earlier describes as "working and just scraping by" may not realize how easily they can fall into poverty. A lot of it is caused by sinking into debt. And before you say "don't go into debt," tell me how easy that is when you have children.

If you have kids and you can't/won't support them, they'd be subject taken away (especially if they were born while the parents were in no position to support them.) While I have reservations about state or private social services agencies raising kids, kid cannot be allowed to be used as lever to extort benefit money. I think if it gets seen that having kids doesn't get you benefits, you'll see a lot less kids born into poverty. How would those people those people that are just scraping by, already pissed about people not working and getting benefits, feel about paying to raise their children?

If you fell into poverty, would you want your children taken away by the state?

09-16-2011, 07:44 PM	#43
layedgebiamma Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 454 Senior Member	If we're talking "normal" unemployed (meaning non-elderly able bodied), give them the normal six months unemployment, then they're on their own. If they end up living under a bridge, so be it. However, that doesn't happen in the vast majority of cases. Looking into the abyss is very motivating. People figure out how to get by. The people you earlier describes as "working and just scraping by" may not realize how easily they can fall into poverty. A lot of it is caused by sinking into debt. And before you say "don't go into debt," tell me how easy that is when you have children. If you have kids and you can't/won't support them, they'd be subject taken away (especially if they were born while the parents were in no position to support them.) While I have reservations about state or private social services agencies raising kids, kid cannot be allowed to be used as lever to extort benefit money. I think if it gets seen that having kids doesn't get you benefits, you'll see a lot less kids born into poverty. How would those people those people that are just scraping by, already pissed about people not working and getting benefits, feel about paying to raise their children? If you fell into poverty, would you want your children taken away by the state?
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