Comments on: Clogging the economic pipes http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/02/18/clogging-the-economic-pipes/ Serving California State University, Fresno since 1922. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:46:42 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: c http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/02/18/clogging-the-economic-pipes/comment-page-1/#comment-35592 c Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:00:55 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=10046#comment-35592 Check out the Times UK article February 14, Obama Warned Over Welfare Spendathon http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5733499.ece Perhaps Suleman can cash in like the four sisters with 17 children in Wisconsin! "In Wisconsin, the state that forged a pioneering path in welfare reforms in the 1990s, residents were astonished by a newspaper investigation that disclosed that a $340m (£236m) programme offering taxpayer-financed child care to low-income working parents was riddled with fraud and expensive loopholes. In one case, a family of four sisters who had 17 children between them put all of them together, took it in turns to babysit them and over the past three years claimed $540,000 (£374,000) in perfectly legal state childcare subsidies." "Perfectly legal" for taxpayer funds to pay low-income women to stay at home with their own children. How many mothers in two-parent households would love to stay at home with their own children but must actually work outside the home to help provide for their families? All the more reason to pay, and get paid, in cash! Check out the Times UK article February 14, Obama Warned Over Welfare Spendathon

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5733499.ece

Perhaps Suleman can cash in like the four sisters with 17 children in Wisconsin!

“In Wisconsin, the state that forged a pioneering path in welfare reforms in the 1990s, residents were astonished by a newspaper investigation that disclosed that a $340m (£236m) programme offering taxpayer-financed child care to low-income working parents was riddled with fraud and expensive loopholes.

In one case, a family of four sisters who had 17 children between them put all of them together, took it in turns to babysit them and over the past three years claimed $540,000 (£374,000) in perfectly legal state childcare subsidies.”

“Perfectly legal” for taxpayer funds to pay low-income women to stay at home with their own children. How many mothers in two-parent households would love to stay at home with their own children but must actually work outside the home to help provide for their families?

All the more reason to pay, and get paid, in cash!

]]> By: Kim http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/02/18/clogging-the-economic-pipes/comment-page-1/#comment-35583 Kim Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:08:15 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=10046#comment-35583 This article is great! Very well written and right on the mark! This article is great! Very well written and right on the mark!

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