What finger pointing party? Who are you arguing with? (I am confused)
You made what I considered a ridiculous statement (needing to prove "the majority" of anything is a requirement for looking at something with more scrutiny), and I was hoping you could explain why you would require proof of a majority being involved in wrong actions to provide some oversight. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > Because to the extent that that teen mother gives the slightest damn about > that child she is still doing better for it than a bureaucracy will. To the > extent that she can imagine a better future for herself, it is generally > cheaper to provide moderate amounts of carefully targetted assistance to > help her make it happen than it is to let that family go into financial > free > fall. > > That's why. > > If neither of those things are true then perhaps the child is better off > elsewhere and the mother should be allowed to hit bottom if she insists. > > But we are still parsing stereotypes that for the most part are not valid. > I > haven't looked this up in about six or seven years, but at time the average > recipient of ADFC was white, divorced and in her thirties, lived in Ohio or > Kentucky, and had a court order for child support that nobody could be > bothered to enforce. > > ::shrug:: sorry to bring facts to a finger-pointing party. > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Jerry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Why "a majority"? Why should there be _any_? > > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > well, Gruss wants facts so let's start here. Can you demonstrate to my > > > satisfaction that a majority of those using social programs are > > > "irresponsible teens"? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:290707 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
