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The home-grown welfare gravy train?

Posted by: 2UE | 4 October, 2011 - 12:30 PM
Are too many mothers welfare dependent? Have Your Say Here!

Revealed on TV: a 20 year-old woman with six children under seven, to three separate fathers, and the first child born when she was 13? Stuart Bocking on the welfare gravy train, an increasing home-grown cost to taxpayers.

 



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  • So what does Stuart Bocking expect to be done to this women??
    Sterilise her? Cut her and children off from welfare? Let them be homeless and starving? Also, how does this issue relate to gambling??
    Stop being fools at 2UE. Your ratings are dropping because speak to people as if they are fools. Intelligent discussion looking at all sides of an arguemnet/issue would be a start

    Tony Monday 10 October, 2011 - 2:01 PM
  • This kind of welfare is supposed to help widowed, divorced etc genuine women in trouble. No problem with a mum staying at home to make sure her kids don't grow up to some thug roaming the street. That's a good investment. Thirteen year old girls getting pregnant is another matter. Big government is such a pile of crap.

    Colin Tuesday 4 October, 2011 - 4:17 PM
  • Sadly, this is a sport to this girl. Milk the welfare, milk the baby bonuses, whatever. Then there's hopefully child support too. And where are her parents in this? A fine moral standard they seem to have set obviously. This is a discrace. What are DOCS doing? What sort of example is this woman showing to her children? Society is failing when this sort of sport is growing - all while we pick up the tab. Who'd choose to work?

    Richard Ray Tuesday 4 October, 2011 - 3:48 PM
  • The husband is working

    Peter Tuesday 4 October, 2011 - 3:21 PM
  • unfortunately all taxpayers appeared to being ripped off by the welfaree proponents.
    If you have disabled child whom needs a new wheel chair because she is growing up no way hosea raise your own monies and good luck.In my case I have had to do that but also cared for mentally ill mother for 20 years no support at all from either state politicians or federal politicians.
    Now the federal pollies want double the salary for less work a refugee can crash into australia and we will give them evrything.
    But sadly if you are born here and need help forget it unless you can be used by politicians to get them selves relelected or contiue their own personal gravy train

    jag Tuesday 4 October, 2011 - 3:19 PM
  • Another damned disgrace!All this nonsense should be brought to an end! Sadly, we do not have a national government with the balls, brains and wherewithal to get anything done properly in this country. The abject rotten mess is there for all to see. Bring on a change of this utterly failed, useless, woefully incompetent minority socialist marxist 'government' of Brown and Gillard/turncoats. Dear oh bloody well dear I say!

    Sam Tuesday 4 October, 2011 - 2:06 PM

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