[119255] in Cypherpunks
Gore Proposes Debtor Slavery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cordian)
Wed Oct 20 13:04:55 1999
From: Eric Cordian <emc@chao.insync.net>
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:46:01 -0700 (PDT)
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No doubt after this plan is demonstrated to be "working," credit card
companys will lobby to have it extended to all debts.
Owe money, refuse to work, go to jail.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Al Gore is proposing a crackdown
on fathers who refuse to pay child support and government help for
those who can't afford to.
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Gore proposed giving federal child-support funds only to states
that require all non-custodial parents -- mainly fathers -- who owe
child support to get a job and pay up, or go to jail.
If elected president, Gore said he also would require fathers to
sign ``personal responsibility contracts,'' in which they would
acknowledge paternity and pledge to work to pay child support, as a
condition of getting aid from the Welfare to Work program.
Under Gore's plan, the government would provide credit card
companies with data on ``deadbeat dads'' who have not paid child
support and urge lenders to deny them credit cards.
For the lesser-spoken-of group of ``dead broke'' fathers who don't
pay because they can't afford to, Gore would broaden regulations
allowing states to use federal welfare money to help them find and
keep jobs.
The 1996 welfare reform law moved millions of families off welfare,
Gore said. ``We must again call on states, communities and
employers to help move unemployed fathers who owe child support
into the workforce.''
Joe Jones is president of Center for Fathers, Families and
Workforce Development, a Baltimore program of ``tough love,
in-your-face job training and readiness,'' he said -- and which
Gore would like to see replicated.
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Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
