I can only assume these people went to school!

I was just sat here reading about the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which highlights that increasing numbers of families below the poverty line now had 1 or more working parent rather than unemployed as was previously the case and was getting annoyed at the gov'ts ineptitude at throwing loads of money at a problem only to make it worse.

Then I suddenly twigged - these people are stupid! The gov't has a target to eradicate ALL child poverty by 2020 but poverty is defined as any household with children where the parents have an income of less than 60% of British median income. Didn't they do maths in school? Don't they understand that as you increase the income of families the median income increases, thus shifting the 60% target further up, didn't they ever think about this policy before spouting it?

I fondly remember the days of my childhood when a single income was generally sufficient to live comfortably, we didn't have the masses of 'stuff' that we have today but I came from a family of 7 children, only my father worked, we didn't have money for extravagance but had the love and full time attention of our mother and enough money to live in comfort. Now, I work with people who perhaps have a combined gross income of £65,000 and still struggle to make ends meet because of the cost of childcare, mortgage repayments, excessive taxes, general high cost of living.

Reduce the burden of paying for excessive government and we may all end up better off, with people employed in wealth creation instead of snooping on the rest of us. We could have mothers spending time with their children and creating strong family bonds instead of children that grow up as strangers who don't think they have any obligation to get on with the rest of the community, causing the gov't to think that yet more money needs to be spent on dealing with this 'problem of anti social behaviour'.