Oh and Kendall...you didn't get extra allowance because your dad was "incapacitated" then. It was money given to you because of your situation, not to your dad as he wasn't living with you. I'm not objecting to the money given to the single parent struggling family due to circumstance.

You can't predict sometimes how family life will turn out and that's what welfare is there to cope with. But I still think there should be better provision to allow people to get back on the horse after situations like that. It can only be beneficial to the country as a whole.

But the answer to alcoholism is not giving extra money to the person to fund that addiction. It's to put the money into schemes to help them kick it and get them back into society.

This is where governments fall down because they don't want to take responsibility for people who need help. They just want to give them money and palm them off...

Now do you see where I'm coming from?

:)

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