Do you think food stamps would make the parents buy food? Most likely not. I'm certainly not a do gooder sometimes I wish I was. I'm just being realistic. The parents need fixing. It's not about the price of food everyone knows that it's about bad parenting and parents that are lazy drug addicts or have mental health issues and who don't look after their children.
To be fair Betsy while acknowledging the rationale of your initial post the point being made here is that SW & CA goes to parents rather than children. If they spend the money on drink/drugs etc this is not the fault of the hungry kids. From my own limited experience & small charity involvement we do appear to be developing a large class divide which makes it more difficult as time progresses to emerge from a dependency culture.Isn't that why we have social services?, to ensure the kids don't suffer. I don't want to see hungry kids I want to see parents getting sorted out, whether by carrot or stick.
Hold on now, it's not down to bad parents who probably spend the money on drink & drugs. There may be a small minorityI agree there is no economic reason. It's due to bad parents who probably spend the money on drink & drugs. Should the children be left to suffer because of their parents? I wouldn't want to be part of a society where a child is left go hungry.
This whole area is extremely complex and cannot be resolved by changes in SW or making it less attractive to depend on SW. Job opportunities for those with a minimal level of education are extremely rare and almost always paid poorly (Luas drivers excepted!). Courses available rarely lead to job success purely because low skill jobs are becoming a thing of the past..
Hold on now, it's not down to bad parents who probably spend the money on drink & drugs. There may be a small minority
for whom that is the case but that sort of broad generalisation serves no purpose in a discussion like this. It's down to bad education but not so much by the education system but by the parents of the current parents. If your children can't cook and look after their personal hygiene then you have failed them just as badly as the child who can't read and doesn't go to school. Some kids are little gits and despite the best efforts of good parents they turn out bad, just as the inverse is also true, but we are speaking in generalities here.
The choice of the electorate is either moderate or radical left when it comes to parties .
They did....and it nearly wiped out Labour, knocked 30% off of FG and stopped Renua in its tracksYou're correct and I think it's time those middle income, working people who are paying lots of tax start raising their voices.
I agree. We have gone from a situation where the unemployed and low income earners were under represented in the Dail to a situation where those on high rates of income tax have, particularly those who pay more than half their income in tax, are under represented.There are currently only political parties that are either left of centre or radically left of centre ( I'm with Michael O'Leary on that one ! ), it would appear that Betsy Og's rules apply generally
The choice of the electorate is either moderate or radical left when it comes to parties .
In answer to any Lefties touting burning bondholders (like Argentina did) ...
Argentina has been shut out of the money-markets for 15 years and while creditors have agreed a 25% haircut, it was reported in the Argentine parliament that burning the bondholders cost the country USD100bn over the past 15 years or so. It defaulted on USD82bn. Creditors are happy as they picked up the bonds for a few cents on the dollar.
Has anyone who touted the burning at any point provided a single example of where burning bondholders worked out better than the alternative?
Iceland.
Great comparison, given Iceland has about 3/5 of the population and 1/2 of the GDP of County Cork.
Iceland.