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(Knoxville, TN) Desmond Hatchett is pleading with the state of Tennessee to help him pay for child support.
With 30 kids, who could afford to pay child support?
Yes, 30 children by 11 different “baby mamas.”
Desmond explained how it all happened, well you know what we mean, “I had four kids in the same year. Twice.”
The children range in age from toddlers to 14 years old.
He was last in court in 2009, at which time he had 21 children.
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An honor student in Texas was thrown in jail after she missed too many classes at her high school.
A judge issued Diane Tran, 17, a summons Wednesday for her excessive truancy after she missed class. She was arrested in open court.
Last month, Tran was issued a warning by the judge for missing school.
Tran said she works both full-time and part-time jobs, in addition to taking advanced and college level courses.
But the judge said Tran’s case was bigger than the individual situation of one student.
“If you let one run loose, what are you gonna’ do with the rest of ’em?,” said Judge Lanny Moriarty. “Let them go too? A little stay in the jail for one night is not a death sentence.”
But Tran’s classmates said she had a lot more to juggle than the average teen.
“She goes from job to job from school. She stays up until 7 a.m. in the morning doing her homework,” said Devin Hill, a classmate and co-worker. (Read more)
From Patrick Barron:
From today’s Open Europe new summary:
Former Greek PM warns of “vortex of self-destruction” if Greece leaves the euro
The FT reports that former Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has warned that Greece would enter a “vortex of self-destruction” if it left the euro. Papademos suggested inflation could hit 50% while real national income could fall by a further 20%. Separately, Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras said yesterday that if he wins the next election he will not fire any civil servants, scrapping the current pledge to cut 150,000 public sector jobs by 2015, agreed under the bailout programme.
There is no better illustration of the destructiveness of the European common currency, as currently constructed, than these statements. One Greek politician predicts chaos in Greece if the euro subsidies stop, and the other states that he will do nothing to reform the Greek economy. These statements expose the destructive forces of what can only be described as a socialist currency–the euro.