Archive - Jun 20, 2012 - News Article

Curmudgeon's Corner: Taxpayers shouldn't be a shield for poor decisions (OPINION)

June 20, 2012

Sometimes I read the “Relationship Advice” column in the state’s largest daily newspaper. I am often amazed at what a mess some people make of their lives.
For example, recently someone who described herself as “Confused” sought advice about attending a baby shower to which she was “morally opposed.” Seems that her niece went off to college and came home in a family-way courtesy of a jobless married man 20 years her senior “with young kids” and “a shady past [as] a ‘former’ drug dealer.”