About personal responsibility

[Grub]

Take fee complaints to schools parents told
By LANE NICHOLS - The Dominion Post | Saturday, 19 January 2008

Tawa mother Marie Prescott, who for nearly a decade has footed the bill for her nine children's state schooling on a sole income, said education came at a cost.

FFS, she has NINE kids and then moans about the cost?


Arrrrgggghhhhhhh

[Colapop]

I pay shitloads more in taxes for working with families so that I can get $4 a fortnight back to help out... I'm so glad that she's able to support her kids education.

[ynot slow]

Shades of the late great Billy T James comment in his show"We had to put mum on a pedastal,was the only way to stop the old man getting her."After saying he was 4th of 10 kids in one of his skits.

[pzkpfw]

Damn straight.

We have two kids. Love 'em to bits and would have had more - if we'd won Lotto.

Let alone food and clothing; we pay their school fees, their fund raising cake stalls, their sports and piano lessons and stuff, and are saving for their Uni via ASG: But that was all our choice.

I blame the "rights first" mentatlity. People have the "right" to have kids... and then think they have the "right" to make other people pay for them... Instead of taking on some more responsibility.

(To be honest, it's all a bit of a balancing act... call me two-faced, but on the other hand I've got no time for childless couples whinging about some of their taxes paying for schools. [Or car-less people whinging about some of their taxes paying for roads. {Or ...}]. A certain minimum standard of public service benefits everyone, and it's not practical to simply user-pays everything.)

Biased one-eyed prejudiced rant follows:

It's like those unemployed bums who keep having kids, and then complain that they don't get a bigger state house.

Cheers,

[PrincessBandit]

FFS, she has NINE kids and then moans about the cost?


Arrrrgggghhhhhhh

Hmmmm, well unless she had them IV by sperm donor or several immaculate conceptions she hardly created them all on her own. There are some women out there who carry the cost of various blokes' lust all on their own through no preference of their own. (In balance, there are also some slappers out there who do see popping out sproglets as a "money making" benefit too). A bit hard to be judgemental when you don't know the facts of her circumstances, and good on her for doing her best to meet the cost herself.

[Colapop]

Just a note before we all (including myself) judge this person - who's to say that she is not married and earning a decent income and can afford to have 9 children? Her husband may be a C.E.O. or something. Her children may be spaced out over a period of 25 years? If she had a her first at 17 or so... it's theoretically possible. Yes, that scenario is VERY unlikely but it may be that way...?

[pzkpfw]

Just a note before we all (including myself) judge this person - who's to say that she is not married and earning a decent income and can afford to have 9 children? Her husband may be a C.E.O. or something. Her children may be spaced out over a period of 25 years? If she had a her first at 17 or so... it's theoretically possible. Yes, that scenario is VERY unlikely but it may be that way...?

If that's true, then she should not be complaining anyway.

However in the OP it says:

who for nearly a decade has footed the bill for her nine children's state schooling on a sole income

[u4ea]

Quite sickening really..ashamed to say I have a sis with 6 kids to 5 different men..only 2 of the fathers have had any worthwhile effect in the kids lives.She has been on the DPB for over 20 years and bleets at the cost involved..forgetting accomodation benefit,food grants,community services card,clothing allowances etc..now I am great aunt of second generation benie kids..grrrrrrr...I stopped at one and went back to work when he was two.Payed secondary tax with no childcare back then,managed to buy a house .Yes it's tough going butI made a concious choice to only have one child.....The woman with nine kids is just a state funded leech as far as Im concerned.

[James Deuce]

I have GOT to get that website up and running. My turn over would be huge!

[Swoop]

10 Chars.....

[trump-lady]

Im a social worker and it behoves me how my clients are on the dpb have three children and can go on a trip to Rarotonga with the family for a week and I work and cant afford a taxi to auckland city............hmmmmmmmmm

On the other hand some of them do try exceptionally hard and do a good job.

Kinda depends on the situation but I agree with the comments above if you cant afford em dont have em.

I

[Steam]

Both Labour and National agree that we need to encourage people to have babies in NZ. One way of encouraging this is to pay parents, support them with Working for Families and the DPB.
So in both the big parties' eyes, that mother of nine is doing NZ a favour by having so many kids.

Encouraging people to have less kids is what the Greens like. You folks woldn't be supporting the Greens would you??

Im a social worker and it behoves me ...

Behoves?
Verb: behove - be appropriate or necessary; "It behoves us to reflect on this matter"
Conform to, fit, meet - satisfy a condition or restriction.

[trump-lady]

Behoves?
Verb: behove - be appropriate or necessary; "It behoves us to reflect on this matter"
Conform to, fit, meet - satisfy a condition or restriction.

ok substitute behoves for I FUCKING HATE THAT, I really dont care, I understand the meaning in my world and I like the way the word sounds.



wow you actually went to look that up and I thought I was bored!