[Pierre]

Here's a choice facing the youth of today: Picture two teenage girls aged 16.

Girl 1: is bright and want to be a doctor, she goes to college, then to university, she works part-time at night in a pub and sandwich making factory,so she can afford all the expensive medical books, she has to take out loan for tuition fees, and a student loan so she can live. Her parents aren't well off so they can't really help.

After seven years of study,and working ****ty jobs just to survive she qualifies as a doctor. She then has to work 70hr weeks on very modest pay. She now also has to start paying off her debt mountain of £30,000 . She can't afford to buy a house as she's single and can't afford a mortgage as the lowest prices houses in the area are £80,000 .

During all her study she paid tax and national insurance on her part-time jobs.

She'll make it in the end, she may be in her early thirties by them and it will have been hard but she take satisfaction, and as a doctor, as her wage increases she be contributing into society, not that she took much out of society while she was studying.

Girl 2: Thinks option 1 is far too hard, at 16 she gets pregnant, she is given a house and benefits, the benefits aren't a lot so she has a few more babies. By the time she's 22 she has 4 kids and a 4 bedroom council house. Soon she'll be able to buy that council house at a low rate. If she has a few more kids she'll get an even bigger house.

She's never worked, never made a contribution to the state. She's a net user of the "welfare" state and never put anything into it.

She reads this week that MPs are proposing that mothers should be "paid" a salary by the state to to stay at home and look after the kids.

Nice one she thinks, I'm nobodys fool!!!!!!!