Green Witch wrote:Today if he did not pay he would end up with his wages garnished or in jail, so that part is better.
When my parents divorced by father was a semester away from becoming a PE teacher for special ed students and he had money in the bank to finish school with. But when my parents divorced he dropped out of school. And from what I remember from 30 years ago my father stayed unemployed more often than not so he would have seldom had wages to be garnered.
We were living in Georgia when my parents divorced and my father almost immediately moved back to Florida. Georgia, naturally wouldn't make any effort to enforce its court rulings on someone in another state and even when my mother and I moved back to Florida Florida wouldn't recognize Georgia's child support order. My mother's only option would have been to sue my father in Florida's courts which means my father would have just fled the state again.
Quote:So you associate the Carter Era with your poverty, interesting on a psychological level.
I wasn't impoverished because my mother always worked. But people who didn't work were living better off than my mother and I were because they got food stamps and welfare.
Quote:The average food stamp family is given less than one dollar per person per meal, you don't see steak in their grocery carts nowadays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_stamps
In 1971 the food stamp law was changed so that the minimum benefit was enough to insure that the recipient's could buy food for a diet that insured adequate nutrition.
In 1974 the program was expanded to cover junkies and drunks.
In 1977 the program was again expanded so anyone with a poverty-level income could receive food stamps and raised the maximum allowed benefits to $1,750 (almost $6000 in 2006 money).
The 1977 law also eliminated the requirement that recipients have a way to cook the food they buy at home.
Quote:We agree flaja that the system doesn't work. I want the system to get people off of welfare by helping them, you seem to want them to just die in a dark corner out of your way.
Why- because I refuse to follow the liberals and simply throw money around? If this is what I really want, why would I be trying to have a serious conversation about welfare?
