[Michael.SF.]

Do they mean to tell me that parents cannot use their welfare money to buy sandwich meat and fix their own kids sandwiches?

If they did, what money would they use to buy drugs and/or booze?

My wife works for a school district as a therapist for handicapped kids. Many of 'her kids' have birth defects due to the drugs taken by their mothers. The horror stories she tells of kids at school, wearing the same shirt for an entire week, unbathed, unfed, etc, etc.

The 'parents' of many of these kids are just a simple combination of stupid, lazy, selfish and drug addicted. It is a very sad situation, which the government is trying to do something about. However, they do it by doing the only thing they know how to do, throw money at it.

[justshe]

~~~~If they did, what money would they use to buy drugs and/or booze?~~~

In my state, welfare 'food funds' are dispensed via a 'credit card' that is used just like a debit card in the grocery stores. No more 'food stamps' that can be sold or traded for booze and drugs.

[PhiKapMom]

That is so disgusting! When my son was in 1st grade, I tutored a classmate of his in reading -- her parents were in prison for dealing drugs but I always suspected that she had delayed learning because of the drugs her Mother took.

Took me three years of tutoring but that little girl learned to read and just recently graduated college. Welfare took her and her siblings away from the parents before they (parents) ended up in jail. Those four kids had a happy ending because they were adopted by a family in another part of the State. Too many children are abused today!

Just gets me when people have children but won't take the responsibility of taking care of them! I would love to throw those parents in jail and throw away the key!