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Comment by amanda choate on July 6, 2012 at 7:12pm

Patricia, where are these churches that are doing this now? Who is stopping them?

Comment by amanda choate on July 6, 2012 at 7:11pm

Ah Marie Antoinette, we do miss you so. Certainly they should rely on charity, begging if necessary, these children need to be accountable. I do have a suggestion, sell their organs. They are young and not obese, these afre good organs and they would get good money for them.
Until Medicare ends, which pays out over $400,000 more per person than they paid in, then after that, starve the little turds, they are not our problem.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on July 5, 2012 at 2:19pm

Tamara, as Hank has said, churches and non profits would fill the needs of the community if the government would get out of the business of being a social services organization and little else it would appear at this time.  They give these chits to anyone as long as they are under 18, and I am sick of them training these young people to expect the government to take care of every one of their needs.  If they are not on a list for such a thing, the city has no business using tax money to feed someone's children so they can use their money for something else!   No oversight, and most of the people in this city are clueless how their tax money is used while we are being fleeced to pay separately for the city services you have a city government to provide.  If we have to pay private companies for your city services, then, why do we have a city government.............certainly it isn't to redistribute our money as they see fit for social programs!

Comment by Hank Heinold on July 5, 2012 at 1:31pm

It is not the taxpayers responsibility to raise these kids. They will not starve to death - get real. Churches and pure non-profit ( no taxpayer - local, state of federal) agencies would handle this if the GOVT would get out of the business of stealing our money and giving it away. We have an insane system with incentives that needs to be stopped now.

Comment by tamara stephenson on July 5, 2012 at 1:21pm

better they starve to death than we spend this money without oversight. 

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on July 5, 2012 at 11:55am

You won't get an argument from me Hank. I agree. Right now, we are being forced to pay separately for our garbage, recycle, and yard waste pick up and the cost to us is going up at least once more and maybe twice more, but they have tons of our property tax money to give away in a manner that has zero over sight (as we have found a number of things our city government does have no over sight and millions of dollars have been lost due to poor management by the city). It is not our business to be subsidizing irresponsible parents, so they have more money to spend on themselves when they should be buying food and feeding their children themselves.

Comment by Hank Heinold on July 5, 2012 at 6:44am

This is pure Welfare with no oversight and needs to be shut down. It is not the job of the taxpayer to "raise" others children.

This is so wrong on every level. This is just one program in JAX with one agency JAX Children's Commission (that needs to STOP these Welfare programs) that is out of control. I would like to know the total bill for Welfare of all kinds by the JAX govt. - County, JTA, JEA etc. It has to be huge and it needs to be cut substantially to be a Temporary safety net at most!