is that programs like this get lost in the hubbub and just waist money. But still the advantages of a bigger government out-weight the problems. Maybe we can get this stupid program in the publics eye and get it deleted.

Gawd these people are such incredibly stupid idiots.

$7,000 to $11,000 per couple? I agree with the writer, bypass the religion pushers and just give the couples the money.

might have a point about married couples faring better economically. Not because they are married per se but because it is two adults together earning an income to pay for housing, food, etc. rather than just one person on their own.

The point I take from their push for marriage is this - people who can team up with other earning adults, have a better time of it financially than those who go it alone.

Until we can defeat the corporate stranglehold over our economy and our government, we have to figure out a way to just stay alive. Maybe the way to stay alive is what I see the poor Latinos of the DC area doing - they get a home with enough room to house, say, six adults (and maybe a kid or two) and they somehow manage to get along with each other and all stay together. That last part is going to be hard for many in our society because we have been raised as loners who want our own way (I know I was raised that way anyhow.)

I'm just looking at this as, how do we survive? Because I think things are going to get still worse, over the next decade or two. We might need to band together into small "tribes" so to speak to survive.

But marriage or going to church or reading the Bible or whatever - pffft. Who cares. But the idea of teaming up with others to survive....maybe that's an idea worth considering, until we are able to fight back and win.

I've read about single mom friends moving into a house sharing type situation, where they help each other both financially and otherwise.

get great social support from each other and help in raising the children!

Sometimes I look at the societies that have had women living in one big abode and men living in another and think, maybe that makes more sense than the living arrangements that we have right now.

I just feel as if the way we live in the U.S., we are so isolated. We don't do the extended families thing any more (for some of us that's a good thing though), we don't tend to have close friendships with our neighbors (not like, say, The Honeymooners portrayed), and we are just....alone I guess.

Maybe there's a better way to live we could try as a society. If we want to.