My God, I didn�t think that anyone still believed in
this tired old stereotype.
>From a Star Tribune article about the hit that human
services is going to take from Pawlenty�s budget cuts,
a hit that will significantly affect Minneapolis:
<snip>
Among the welfare changes would be a limit on the
amount a woman could receive, even if she gives birth
again. The idea is to discourage further pregnancies.
Currently, a woman who has a second baby would have
her welfare check increase from $437 to $532 a month.
</snip/>
I seriously doubt this move is going to make
low-income adults say, �Wait a minute, dear, we�d
better not, I won�t get a bigger check.� However, life
skills or family planning for low-income families are
written off as pork. So what�s the next step? Forced
sterilization? Or just punish the kids for the bad
judgement/mistakes of the parents?
MPR described a partnership called �Walk a Mile in
Their Shoes� about politicians who partnered up with
low-income families to experience how they lived.
{Unfortunately, I couldn�t find a link on MPR, but it
was during their recent series �Falling Behind.�} Tim
Pawlenty is in serious need of walking a mile in
somebody�s thrift-store shoes. He seems to equate
low-income people with baby-making, check-collecting,
bacon-rind-chawing deadbeats.
The URL of the article:
www.startribune.com/stories/462/3661567.html
Susan Maricle
Bruno, MN
formerly of Folwell
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