Posted on 08/24/2010 7:08:11 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
Since it came to light that council money handed out to disabled people has paid for visits to lap-dancing clubs, prostitutes and sign-ups to internet dating sites, newspapers and radio phone-ins have been jam-packed with indignant voices.
Some object to a ‘mis-use of public funds’, some have expressed concern about the immorality of promoting ‘loveless’ sex as a social service, and some have even suggested that the state putting money into the hands of a sex-worker is ‘evil’ and/or ‘sick’.
It never ceases to amaze me how energetic people can get disapproving of acts of compassion being visited upon those less fortunate than themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at belfasttelegraph.co.uk ...
Hey, it’s not my money.....so go ahead and blow it on whatever you want!
Then again, most of our government workers view PORN all day at OUR EXPENSE. We're paying their dam salaries. It's a mess all over. We have the morals of Sodom and Gomorrah and people have the audacity to DEFEND it. Sickening!.
I just hope illegal aliens don’t read this.
If Ms. Graham is so worried about the well-being of disabled people, why doesn’t she go service them for free, instead of making the taxpayers pay for it?
Well, sir, if you would like to pay for them to do so, please pay for it - but not with MY money!
I’m disabled...Wait a minute Belfast is in England.
What? No it isn't.
If the money is simply handed to them for their own discretionary use (surely one of the WORST uses for public funding that I have ever seen) then the complaint should be with the policy itself and not the outcome of how that money is used.
Hand people “fun money” and they’re going to have fun. Bank on it. Just HOW they have their fun is none of your damn business or mine, IMHO.
Despite all the howling about prostitution (which somehow survives even after millennia of fierce moral outrage ...) I can see its entertainment value. In fact, my dear wife lost her spark years ago and I’m ... um ... willing to be amused by a loveless relationship one of these days myself.
If you weren't already disabled, you would be as soon as some Irish guy sees that.
I have a disability, and I think it’s an abuse of public funds. I don’t seem to have a problem meeting actual decent women.
You want a prostitute, pay for it yourself, don’t force me to pay for yours. Ugh.
Silly me. I thought that Northern Ireland WAS England. You mean I'm wrong about that, too?
'Tis a subject best approached carefully depending on the audience.
I thought that was why Eire was called the Free State.
Saying that Belfast is in England is a bit like saying that San Francisco is in Texas, but even worse as it's in another country rather than just another State.
It is. We just call it Austin.
It’s become impossible to satirize the Brits.
Not to mention perform badly-needed dental work.
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