I felt sure that Fox News would be all over this story, but when I went to their website, I couldn't find it anywhere. One of the things I dislike about Fox News the most, and most major news outlets, for that mater, is that they often take an isolated or very rare event and extrapolate it and make broad, general statements. You could say that MSNBC did this with the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, and I would say you are correct.
So, when I didn't see a story as being an example of the moral decay of the welfare system, I was pleasantly surprised - maybe I'm just too jaded.
I think we can all agree that this woman had serious issues, and to extrapolate anything from it is essentially pointless. With that being said, I will now extrapolate some meaning from it. I think that people in extreme financial difficulty can feel extremely hopeless and desperate - this is obviously the extreme of extremes, but just thinking about it, I would like to propose a theoretical questions...
A 28 year old woman with 3 children, ages 8, 5, and 2 is suddenly in a dire financial situation. Her husband, who was the breadwinner of the family leaves, and now she has no income of money.
What does she do?
