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I kept my thingy in my pants most of the time. When I did not, I was married, I wrapped it, or made sure the woman could not get pregnant.

Why should I be paying to support the child of a gangbanger who will spend most of his life in prison and a teenaged ho who will squirt out other gangbanger sired kids so she can get more money in welfare than most people make honestly?

At my last job, there was a woman making $2000 a month. She had seven children by seven different fathers and was getting $2800 a month in child support. She got Section 8 housing and food stamps. She drove a new Suburban, except when she wanted to be sporty and drove her new Mustang.

This is where my tax money is going. I won't even go into her complaint about how bad the lobster was the local grocery store.

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I love how everyone jumps on the sjh is stupid bandwagon because at some time in the past he talked about jesus. Nary a intelligent word to refute his ideas, just talking crap about his religious views. So much so that Chilcutt has to come to his defense. What a bunch of whiny losers you are.

I have moved into a better neighborhood with a good school so my kids could have a better education- to find out nearly 30% of the kid's parent is getting close to $1400 a month in housing assistance plus free meals for the kids. Guess who's kids cause 98% of the problems in the school, and who's kids are the worst performers, and who's parent does not do anything to do with their child's school? With those attitudes and upbringing they will have almost no chance in life- so they might as well have stayed in the poor section of town and saved us all from paying for them from cradle to grave. All of this "help" has done little to nothing and will continue to do little to nothing- the greatest lesson the parent of these children takes from this lesson is that if they complain even more and louder is that they might get even more of us to pay for them to sit around and become even bigger leaches on society. That's the lesson of today's "integration": you give me and I sit and slack- so give me more so I can slack more.

About time for a new story,eh?

Paradoxically, obesity is fast becoming the #1 health threat to children, especially among the poor.

Carbohydrates and fats are cheap in our culture.

I have no idea what you are attempting to say.

Understanding the futurity of your actions is not a strong suit of the poor.

I'm puzzled how begging, borrowing and/or stealing equates to living within means? Isn't it the opposite?

If I need to beg, borrow or steal in order to satisfy either needs or wants, then doesn't that mean I have an unsustainable lifestyle and am exceeding my means?

And, although I'm just guessing, I really doubt a 5 year old has a new iPhone. Possible, but unlikely. I bet she's got the 16Gb iPad, that's what all the welfare queens are buying their tots these days.

First, I commend you for listening and/or reading from perspectives with which you clearly disagree. It indicates a certain open-mindedness. Unless, of course, it's only in order to find things about which to complain; then it would indicate some sort of pettiness.

I am, however, puzzled by the logic your comments take in this thread.

You begin by dismissing the statistic of 20% in poverty as the title of the thread. Do you disagree? Do you think there are more or less? Was the Annie E. Casey study somehow tainted by being reported about in the media? You did read the study and see that's 2009 data, right? So it's probably even higher now.

You select a quote from the article. In that quote a single mother describes her concerns about raising her child. Are those also not your own concerns when you wrote

Her concerns are for her child, not herself. In the past, perhaps, she was pre-occupied with self. Now she is seeking education, attempting to raise a child, devoting herself to another. Are these not values that you also propose? Did they come to her too late, and are therefore worthless? Is there a "you must be mature and responsible not later than age" after which you become worthless?

Is what you're doing in this thread the Christian thing, or the adult thing?

I recommend Matthew 7:1-5 for guidance.

Are you asking that people not disagree with you about an article that you linked to in OD? Really? I thought you put up the article as a "poster child" for your opinions in order to engage in an enlightening discussion. Is there something in the article that is not objective or fact based? Would a single 30 year old white male christian change your opinion? Okay, substitute those characteristics, now what? Is the poor white single dad christian still worthy of your scorn?

So you've studied educational methods then? A real pedagogue.

I do see some frequent posters in OD who are limited in discourse. The response above, for example, lacks structure and coherence. I doubt this would pass muster in a humanities course taught by a PhD. It might, however, fit on a picket sign.

Clearly you enjoy the exercise, because you engage so frequently. I do think you need more practice though. More flexing, more acknowledging. I would suggest, though, that perhaps the sensei has lost control of your dojo on more than one occasion.

Pontificatomatic.

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Well, isn't this fun.

1. I greatly doubt the accuracy of the data. What is called poor is highly subjective and contextual. It, like the VAST majority of studies down in the humanities is a thinly veiled propaganda piece pretending to be objective.

2. People who are not in a position to be able to raise children in a healthy loving manner should be dis-incentivized from pro-creating. Extending the largess that society does encourages more dysfunctionality.

3. Do you really want to discuss the dominant message of Christianity? The Sermon on the Mount which Jesus gave prior to his resurrection is intended to show the futility of trying to live by Mosaic law. It's purpose is to say, you are not able to fulfill what Moses commanded you and I tell you that if you want to repair your rupture with God the Law of Moses is not enough, this is what you must do to have a Law-based covenant. The purpose is to show that no one can succeed on that basis. Jesus, then offers a new way, His crucifixation and resurrection.

4. I do not care if that women or anyone else wears polka-dots and dances upside-down... Until she comes to me and says, "hey I, my parents, my community, the inane values from the PC culture are a mess -- I want you to pay for these errors." Ain't gonna happen.

Write more.

This is fun.

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I know a single mom who is thirty and has three kids. Sounds a lot like his example so far.

It so happens that she is divorced from a man who she was married to for seven years. He was a traditional christian so forbade her to work outside the home and she submitted.

Turns out he is an alcoholic and a controlling SOB. Her family silently hoped that she would get away from him but kept still for the most part.

Finally after listening to his lies about quitting drinking and enduring his womanizing and belittling of her she got the courage to divorce him.

So now here she is raising three lovely children and financially very vulnerable. She did manage to get a good job though and is now dating a man who treats her with respect.

Oh yes, and one more thing.....

Her children are my grandchildren.

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I suspect we can all tell those tales. I am very close with a former student. An exceedingly bright girl, member of an ethnic minority, who screwed up in her youth and had a child at 15 and another at 17. Her family unable to help, she existed and raised her kids on public assistance while attending junior college and working full time. She is now a lawyer who works for an agency that helps girls in the same position she was in. Without public assistance, she wouldn't have made it. An intellect wasted.
It's real easy for those who haven't suffered the indignity of public aid to scoff and pass judgement. The reality is much sadder, and much more complicated.
Simple minds seek simple solutions.

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Well said.

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