Story Created:
Mar 25, 2008
Story Updated:
Mar 25, 2008
This is your brain on welfare.
Meet the families where no one's worked for THREE generations - and they don't care
By SADIE NICHOLAS and DIANA APPLEYARD -
Known as the "Shameless" family among horrified neighbours, the McFaddens "boast" three generations of adults who are not working.
All ten members of the clan share a council house and live off benefits amounting to around £32,000 a year. And very happy they are, too.
Matriarch is grandmother Sue McFadden, 54. "Our neighbours are so snobby - they call us the "Shameless" family and say that we ought to go out to work. But how can we work when we have all these children to look after?
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Wednesday, Mar 26 at 8:34 PM BigT wrote ...
The more you give in welfare the more deadbeats you produce. BigT
Wednesday, Mar 26 at 10:19 AM Hank wrote ...
Wow Chris you avoid addressing the problem and instead quoted Noam Chomsky. That must not only mean that you're right and everyone else is wrong, but also that you're smarter than everyone else because you had a Noam Chomsky quote to pull out. Or it could just be that even you have no way to defend the type of behavior this story reveals.
Wednesday, Mar 26 at 8:59 AM Amy P. wrote ...
Yes, well rather than addressing the entitlement mentality, watch for Britian to impose a "one child" or mandatory day care policy and make everyone work or some other half-baked idea like that. These people *are* shameless. No other way about it.
Wednesday, Mar 26 at 6:28 AM Kurt/Elkhorn wrote ...
Sounds like the 2nd & 3rd generation welfare families we heard about during the start of the Clinton years. GEE! Been there-done that! Sounds like Tommy Thompson could help them out"across the pond" as they say. W2 to the rescue!!!
Tuesday, Mar 25 at 11:36 PM Chris - Whitewater wrote ...
The more you can increase fear of drugs & crime, welfare mothers, immigrants & aliens, the more you control all the people. Noam Chomsky
Tuesday, Mar 25 at 7:37 PM Maddie - Saukville wrote ...
And if they only got another 100,000 pounds/year they could get their teeth fixed and they could smile when they cashed their parliment checks without levying a dreadful fright upon an unsuspecting bank clerk. Well, I'm sure glad nothing like that happens in America let alone Taxconsin! Now, I must be getting back to my Hurricane Katrina FEMA trailer, good day.
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