David Cameron is reported to have said that, if relected, he would not cut child benefit.

So the rest of the tax-paying electorate must continue to fund couples having child after child after child so that they, the parents, can continue to have their ‘Costa Del Sol’ holidays, their plasma televisions, their new cars, etc, etc?

Not only that, but a politician can promise a burden on the tax-paying electorate without their being given an opportunity to agree, or not? Wherefore democracy? Or, come to that, Referism?

I can but come back to the title of this short post – and the old idea; if you can’t afford it out of your earned income – don’t get one!

A lesson people and governments would do well to remember – not that governments have earned income; but you get the idea I’m sure.