Ronn! wrote:
Okay, so we send daddy to jail for committing a crime, and put him up at
the taxpayers' expense. Then mommy and the kids, who are presumably
innocent of any crime, go on welfare, because they no longer have a
paycheck coming in because daddy is in jail and mommy has no marketable
skills and has several young kids at home. When daddy finally gets out,
he can't get a job because no one wants to hire an ex-con. And even if
mommy (after the kids are in school) or daddy can eventually get a
minimum-wage job, it's not enough to live on, particularly when there
are day-care expenses for the kids when they are not in school and there
is no parent at home because they are working. So we end up with the
whole family on the public dole for the foreseeable future. How do you
suggest that we (1) punish the guilty appropriately and (2) keep the
innocent members of the criminal's family from paying the price and/or
ending up on welfare?
Since you're the one questioning the system, what's your solution?
Pesonally, I think that the sentences for molestation/pedophillia etc. are
entirely too light. Time and again we end up with these creeps back on
the street not only molesting again but raping and killing their victims -
like the guy in Idaho a few weeks a go. If it costs us money to keep them
off the street, so be it.
--
Doug
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