That’s right, I need an instant family – give me the wife and 3 kids special thanks. Why you ask? I’m sick of paying crap loads of taxes so that the government can provide handouts to families. Having a baby? Here have $3000 as well. That’s in addition to the tax cuts. And the extra medicare cover. Now you might argue that families are an expensive proposition and battling families need all the help they can get. I’d agree. However, I’d disagree that the really rich families need a helping hand too – but they get one all the same. Besides, whatever happened to living within your means? I’m all for helping people who wind up in hard times because of things they couldn’t control or at least couldn’t be reasonably expected to control. I really hate being expected to feel sorry for the teenage Mum with a kid and how tough her life is trying to bring up the child alone. Yes it’s tough, yes I know a lot of single teenage mothers, yes they deserve a lot of respect and admiration and yes they deserve and get my help where I can. Yes it is also their fault that they’re in that situation. Unbelievably thousands of men and women, young and old manage to avoid starting a family before they can afford it – why should they be forced to support those people who failed to consider the implications of their actions? For all those people out there who have wound up in a tough situation because the plans you’d made didn’t work out or for those who are in a tough situation and aren’t winging for a government handout or are working to get out of the tough situation themselves: my hats off to you. I have a great deal of respect for that and wish you the best of luck in the future.