Go Forth & Mulitiply...Just Not At My Expense!
I was really disgusted early in the week when I read about Keith Macdonald. He is the scrounging 21 year old who is about to become a dad for the 7th time. Since the age of 13 he's been breeding like a rabbit - 7 kids with 7 different women, all of whom he has abandoned. He boasts of not having paid a single penny towards child support. Yet he callously dismisses any suggestions that he is an irresponsible parent. And he insists his children will be well provided for………WITH BENEFITS.
Macdonald is a convicted criminal who gets a weekly allowance from income support. He spends all his time and OUR HARD EARNED MONEY on poker machines at game arcades. It is estimated the cost of supporting his seven kids until they are 16 will be £1 million - a bill that will be footed by the taxpayer. And I have to ask the question WHY??
Why is it that an able bodied young man, perfectly capable of producing children, is allowed to scrounge on the state? Explaining his decision not to support any of his children himself, he said: "It’s not that I don’t want anything to do with the kids. "I would like to, but the mothers won’t let me for some reason. Why should I pay for them if I can’t see them?". Well, I ask why I or any other tax payer has to pay for them, when not only have we not seen them, but they certainly are not our responsibility?
What annoys me the most is that Keith Macdonald was not some unknown person who suddenly emerged out of the woodwork just this week. He apparently caused outrage last year when he was exposed by the Sun as being the worst father in Britain. Yet despite all the publicity, it appears that no one from the Child Support Agency nor the Income Support took any notice. Keith Macdonald may be a disaster as a dad, but it is apparent that he is not the only disaster in this story. It's plainly obvious that the Child Support Agency and the Benefits department have failed in the jobs that they are meant to be doing.
It's about time these agencies wake up and enforce strict penalties to people like Macdonald or else we will have many more like him emerging out of obscurity and claiming benefits that they do not deserve. And once again the overburdened tax payers will pay the price for someone else's stupidity.
Macdonald is a convicted criminal who gets a weekly allowance from income support. He spends all his time and OUR HARD EARNED MONEY on poker machines at game arcades. It is estimated the cost of supporting his seven kids until they are 16 will be £1 million - a bill that will be footed by the taxpayer. And I have to ask the question WHY??
Why is it that an able bodied young man, perfectly capable of producing children, is allowed to scrounge on the state? Explaining his decision not to support any of his children himself, he said: "It’s not that I don’t want anything to do with the kids. "I would like to, but the mothers won’t let me for some reason. Why should I pay for them if I can’t see them?". Well, I ask why I or any other tax payer has to pay for them, when not only have we not seen them, but they certainly are not our responsibility?
What annoys me the most is that Keith Macdonald was not some unknown person who suddenly emerged out of the woodwork just this week. He apparently caused outrage last year when he was exposed by the Sun as being the worst father in Britain. Yet despite all the publicity, it appears that no one from the Child Support Agency nor the Income Support took any notice. Keith Macdonald may be a disaster as a dad, but it is apparent that he is not the only disaster in this story. It's plainly obvious that the Child Support Agency and the Benefits department have failed in the jobs that they are meant to be doing.
It's about time these agencies wake up and enforce strict penalties to people like Macdonald or else we will have many more like him emerging out of obscurity and claiming benefits that they do not deserve. And once again the overburdened tax payers will pay the price for someone else's stupidity.
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