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The GOP cares more about a fetus than living children: Why are Republicans so threatened by universal daycare?
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May 2, 2021 10:45:51   #
rumitoid
 
(Besides the fact that the first things the GOP always looks to cut in budget talks is education and aid to poor children, the elderly, and veterans, now we have their new culture war on women at home.)

Free childcare equals class warfare, say Republicans

Joe Biden wants to spend big money on small children. On Wednesday the president announced an ambitious $1.8tn plan to boost family assistance programs, childhood education and student aid. If passed, the American Families Plan would overhaul the current (dire) childcare system and inject billions into universal preschool, paid family leave and subsidized childcare. It would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy.

Related: A question for Brett Kavanaugh: who gets a second chance? | Arwa Mahdawi

Sounds great, right? Who wouldn’t support investing in children? The party of “family values”, of course! The party that loves advocating for embryos but doesn’t seem quite so keen on helping kids. Predictably Republicans are up in arms about the idea that the US, which one recent survey ranked as the second-worst place in the world to raise children, might become a little more family-friendly. As soon as Biden had finished speaking, out came the usual talking points about how Biden was pushing a dangerous socialist agenda and trying to indoctrinate American children. “You know who else liked universal day care?” the Republican senator Marsha Blackburn tweeted, linking to a 1974 article about day care in the Soviet Union.

Think that’s an unhinged response? I think it may have been surpassed by JD Vance’s incomprehensible contribution to the debate. On Thursday, the Hillbilly Elegy author and vocal Republican tweeted that “‘Universal day care’ is class war against normal people.” His line of reasoning, if you can call it that, was that: “normal Americans care more about their families than their jobs, and want a family policy that doesn’t shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force”.

Perhaps Republicans should just cut to the chase and say that they don’t support any policy that makes it easier for women to leave their houses. When you think women are just walking wombs then it’s expedient for childcare costs to be so staggeringly high that they push women out of the workforce. Earlier this year, Idaho lawmakers turned down a $6m federal grant to support early childhood care and education. Let me repeat that, they turned down millions of dollars earmarked for children. Why? Well as the Republican state representative. Charlie Shepherd explained, that money would hurt “the family unit”.

“[A]ny bill that makes it easier or more convenient for mothers to come out of the home and let others raise their child, I don’t think that’s a good direction for us to be going,” Shepherd said. Really saying the quiet part out loud there!

Richard Nixon made pretty much the same argument in 1971, which was the last time the US was on the verge of creating a universal childcare system. Nixon vetoed the largely bipartisan effort, saying it would have “family-weakening implications”. By which, of course, he meant it would make it easier for women to work.

You know what is really “family-weakening”? Making the costs of having and raising kids so ridiculously high that it’s getting harder and harder for anyone to afford a family. According to the Census Bureau, childcare expenditures rose more than 40% from 1990 to 2011; childcare has only become more expensive since then. The same geniuses who don’t want to expand access to childcare regularly wring their hands over declining birth rates in America. Why aren’t people having kids, they ask? It’s the economy, stupid.
The p******c cost women over $800bn

Women’s lost income in 2020 totaled the combined wealth of 98 countries, Oxfam reports. Women, who are overrepresented in low-paid, precarious sectors like retail and food services, lost more than 64m jobs in 2020, amounting to at least $800bn in lost income globally. This estimate doesn’t even include wages lost by women working in the informal economy, such as domestic workers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-republicans-threatened-universal-daycare-130004338.html

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May 2, 2021 10:53:15   #
Rose42
 
You just aren’t happy unless you’re maligning people. Let go of that big ball of h**e you carry with you.

One of your problems is a lack of discernment. You make excuses for k*****g the most innocent of life (yes you do) and like most hyper partisans think the problem is only from one side.

There are those who are perfectly capable of seeing both sides are working against us. Your hatred prevents people like you from seeing it.

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May 2, 2021 10:57:12   #
SWMBO
 
rumitoid wrote:
(Besides the fact that the first things the GOP always looks to cut in budget talks is education and aid to poor children, the elderly, and veterans, now we have their new culture war on women at home.)

Free childcare equals class warfare, say Republicans

Joe Biden wants to spend big money on small children. On Wednesday the president announced an ambitious $1.8tn plan to boost family assistance programs, childhood education and student aid. If passed, the American Families Plan would overhaul the current (dire) childcare system and inject billions into universal preschool, paid family leave and subsidized childcare. It would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy.

Related: A question for Brett Kavanaugh: who gets a second chance? | Arwa Mahdawi

Sounds great, right? Who wouldn’t support investing in children? The party of “family values”, of course! The party that loves advocating for embryos but doesn’t seem quite so keen on helping kids. Predictably Republicans are up in arms about the idea that the US, which one recent survey ranked as the second-worst place in the world to raise children, might become a little more family-friendly. As soon as Biden had finished speaking, out came the usual talking points about how Biden was pushing a dangerous socialist agenda and trying to indoctrinate American children. “You know who else liked universal day care?” the Republican senator Marsha Blackburn tweeted, linking to a 1974 article about day care in the Soviet Union.

Think that’s an unhinged response? I think it may have been surpassed by JD Vance’s incomprehensible contribution to the debate. On Thursday, the Hillbilly Elegy author and vocal Republican tweeted that “‘Universal day care’ is class war against normal people.” His line of reasoning, if you can call it that, was that: “normal Americans care more about their families than their jobs, and want a family policy that doesn’t shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force”.

Perhaps Republicans should just cut to the chase and say that they don’t support any policy that makes it easier for women to leave their houses. When you think women are just walking wombs then it’s expedient for childcare costs to be so staggeringly high that they push women out of the workforce. Earlier this year, Idaho lawmakers turned down a $6m federal grant to support early childhood care and education. Let me repeat that, they turned down millions of dollars earmarked for children. Why? Well as the Republican state representative. Charlie Shepherd explained, that money would hurt “the family unit”.

“[A]ny bill that makes it easier or more convenient for mothers to come out of the home and let others raise their child, I don’t think that’s a good direction for us to be going,” Shepherd said. Really saying the quiet part out loud there!

Richard Nixon made pretty much the same argument in 1971, which was the last time the US was on the verge of creating a universal childcare system. Nixon vetoed the largely bipartisan effort, saying it would have “family-weakening implications”. By which, of course, he meant it would make it easier for women to work.

You know what is really “family-weakening”? Making the costs of having and raising kids so ridiculously high that it’s getting harder and harder for anyone to afford a family. According to the Census Bureau, childcare expenditures rose more than 40% from 1990 to 2011; childcare has only become more expensive since then. The same geniuses who don’t want to expand access to childcare regularly wring their hands over declining birth rates in America. Why aren’t people having kids, they ask? It’s the economy, stupid.
The p******c cost women over $800bn

Women’s lost income in 2020 totaled the combined wealth of 98 countries, Oxfam reports. Women, who are overrepresented in low-paid, precarious sectors like retail and food services, lost more than 64m jobs in 2020, amounting to at least $800bn in lost income globally. This estimate doesn’t even include wages lost by women working in the informal economy, such as domestic workers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-republicans-threatened-universal-daycare-130004338.html
(Besides the fact that the first things the GOP al... (show quote)


What most of us are concerned about is that it would be just another way to take control of todays children, make the state and the Federal government responsible for everything having todo with the rearing of children, rather than helping educate parents to do a good and honest job of caring for their children. The Marxists and the Chinese C*******ts have a goal of becoming the parent, guardian and controller of todays youth to program them into being puppets and happy wards of the state. That has been, and always will be the C*******t goal and those of us who actually know that the family should be the important thing in the childrens life.

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May 2, 2021 11:10:21   #
Anvil
 
rumitoid wrote:
Free childcare l


You begin with a faulty premise - as most l*****t do.

Nothing is free.

And now it goes back to fiscal responsibility.

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May 2, 2021 11:28:35   #
Skiladi
 
Parents should raise children, not the state!

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May 2, 2021 12:13:42   #
microphor Loc: Home is TN
 
rumitoid wrote:
(Besides the fact that the first things the GOP always looks to cut in budget talks is education and aid to poor children, the elderly, and veterans, now we have their new culture war on women at home.)

Free childcare equals class warfare, say Republicans

Joe Biden wants to spend big money on small children. On Wednesday the president announced an ambitious $1.8tn plan to boost family assistance programs, childhood education and student aid. If passed, the American Families Plan would overhaul the current (dire) childcare system and inject billions into universal preschool, paid family leave and subsidized childcare. It would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy.

Related: A question for Brett Kavanaugh: who gets a second chance? | Arwa Mahdawi

Sounds great, right? Who wouldn’t support investing in children? The party of “family values”, of course! The party that loves advocating for embryos but doesn’t seem quite so keen on helping kids. Predictably Republicans are up in arms about the idea that the US, which one recent survey ranked as the second-worst place in the world to raise children, might become a little more family-friendly. As soon as Biden had finished speaking, out came the usual talking points about how Biden was pushing a dangerous socialist agenda and trying to indoctrinate American children. “You know who else liked universal day care?” the Republican senator Marsha Blackburn tweeted, linking to a 1974 article about day care in the Soviet Union.

Think that’s an unhinged response? I think it may have been surpassed by JD Vance’s incomprehensible contribution to the debate. On Thursday, the Hillbilly Elegy author and vocal Republican tweeted that “‘Universal day care’ is class war against normal people.” His line of reasoning, if you can call it that, was that: “normal Americans care more about their families than their jobs, and want a family policy that doesn’t shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force”.

Perhaps Republicans should just cut to the chase and say that they don’t support any policy that makes it easier for women to leave their houses. When you think women are just walking wombs then it’s expedient for childcare costs to be so staggeringly high that they push women out of the workforce. Earlier this year, Idaho lawmakers turned down a $6m federal grant to support early childhood care and education. Let me repeat that, they turned down millions of dollars earmarked for children. Why? Well as the Republican state representative. Charlie Shepherd explained, that money would hurt “the family unit”.

“[A]ny bill that makes it easier or more convenient for mothers to come out of the home and let others raise their child, I don’t think that’s a good direction for us to be going,” Shepherd said. Really saying the quiet part out loud there!

Richard Nixon made pretty much the same argument in 1971, which was the last time the US was on the verge of creating a universal childcare system. Nixon vetoed the largely bipartisan effort, saying it would have “family-weakening implications”. By which, of course, he meant it would make it easier for women to work.

You know what is really “family-weakening”? Making the costs of having and raising kids so ridiculously high that it’s getting harder and harder for anyone to afford a family. According to the Census Bureau, childcare expenditures rose more than 40% from 1990 to 2011; childcare has only become more expensive since then. The same geniuses who don’t want to expand access to childcare regularly wring their hands over declining birth rates in America. Why aren’t people having kids, they ask? It’s the economy, stupid.
The p******c cost women over $800bn

Women’s lost income in 2020 totaled the combined wealth of 98 countries, Oxfam reports. Women, who are overrepresented in low-paid, precarious sectors like retail and food services, lost more than 64m jobs in 2020, amounting to at least $800bn in lost income globally. This estimate doesn’t even include wages lost by women working in the informal economy, such as domestic workers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-republicans-threatened-universal-daycare-130004338.html
(Besides the fact that the first things the GOP al... (show quote)



My concern is "what is being taught". I was picking my grandson up from school and helping with his homework after school while his mom was at work-"he didn't know s**t about how to do the work". He was sent home with pieces of paper and told to complete these exercises but no one taught him how to do the work, He was frustrated. Of course I helped him although I knew nothing about common core (which is totally ridiculous). My grandson is doing better because he is being educated at home after school by family. Here's my dilemma, I'm sending my kid for school 6-8 hrs a day to learn, but when he comes home he doesn't know how to do the work, what am I paying for? My granddaughter on the other hand, is going to one of those "ya know, backwoods school"= a school in a small community, the kind her mom and grandma went to. She is excelling and wants to go to school, her homeroom teacher actually educated both her mom and grandma. Maybe throwing money at a situation is the answer, are the teachers coming out of colleges today qualified to teach? My boyfriend has teaching degree in Vietnamese History but doesn't know the language. Haven't we learned that a lot is lost through lack of understanding of a language. Oh yell, that was in my day when teachers taught.

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May 2, 2021 12:57:18   #
Rose42
 
microphor wrote:
My concern is "what is being taught". I was picking my grandson up from school and helping with his homework after school while his mom was at work-"he didn't know s**t about how to do the work". He was sent home with pieces of paper and told to complete these exercises but no one taught him how to do the work, He was frustrated. Of course I helped him although I knew nothing about common core (which is totally ridiculous). My grandson is doing better because he is being educated at home after school by family. Here's my dilemma, I'm sending my kid for school 6-8 hrs a day to learn, but when he comes home he doesn't know how to do the work, what am I paying for? My granddaughter on the other hand, is going to one of those "ya know, backwoods school"= a school in a small community, the kind her mom and grandma went to. She is excelling and wants to go to school, her homeroom teacher actually educated both her mom and grandma. Maybe throwing money at a situation is the answer, are the teachers coming out of colleges today qualified to teach? My boyfriend has teaching degree in Vietnamese History but doesn't know the language. Haven't we learned that a lot is lost through lack of understanding of a language. Oh yell, that was in my day when teachers taught.
My concern is "what is being taught". I... (show quote)


I have helped children with math and showed them the way I was taught so they understood more about what they were doing. They caught on quickly whereas the new math was often just confusing for them.

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May 2, 2021 15:08:23   #
microphor Loc: Home is TN
 
Rose42 wrote:
I have helped children with math and showed them the way I was taught so they understood more about what they were doing. They caught on quickly whereas the new math was often just confusing for them.


My son who is a resercher said coomon core math is used in our schools to benefit (financially)the person who created it, not the students

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May 2, 2021 21:04:00   #
Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio
 
rumitoid wrote:
(Besides the fact that the first things the GOP always looks to cut in budget talks is education and aid to poor children, the elderly, and veterans, now we have their new culture war on women at home.)

Free childcare equals class warfare, say Republicans

Joe Biden wants to spend big money on small children. On Wednesday the president announced an ambitious $1.8tn plan to boost family assistance programs, childhood education and student aid. If passed, the American Families Plan would overhaul the current (dire) childcare system and inject billions into universal preschool, paid family leave and subsidized childcare. It would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy.

Related: A question for Brett Kavanaugh: who gets a second chance? | Arwa Mahdawi

Sounds great, right? Who wouldn’t support investing in children? The party of “family values”, of course! The party that loves advocating for embryos but doesn’t seem quite so keen on helping kids. Predictably Republicans are up in arms about the idea that the US, which one recent survey ranked as the second-worst place in the world to raise children, might become a little more family-friendly. As soon as Biden had finished speaking, out came the usual talking points about how Biden was pushing a dangerous socialist agenda and trying to indoctrinate American children. “You know who else liked universal day care?” the Republican senator Marsha Blackburn tweeted, linking to a 1974 article about day care in the Soviet Union.

Think that’s an unhinged response? I think it may have been surpassed by JD Vance’s incomprehensible contribution to the debate. On Thursday, the Hillbilly Elegy author and vocal Republican tweeted that “‘Universal day care’ is class war against normal people.” His line of reasoning, if you can call it that, was that: “normal Americans care more about their families than their jobs, and want a family policy that doesn’t shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force”.

Perhaps Republicans should just cut to the chase and say that they don’t support any policy that makes it easier for women to leave their houses. When you think women are just walking wombs then it’s expedient for childcare costs to be so staggeringly high that they push women out of the workforce. Earlier this year, Idaho lawmakers turned down a $6m federal grant to support early childhood care and education. Let me repeat that, they turned down millions of dollars earmarked for children. Why? Well as the Republican state representative. Charlie Shepherd explained, that money would hurt “the family unit”.

“[A]ny bill that makes it easier or more convenient for mothers to come out of the home and let others raise their child, I don’t think that’s a good direction for us to be going,” Shepherd said. Really saying the quiet part out loud there!

Richard Nixon made pretty much the same argument in 1971, which was the last time the US was on the verge of creating a universal childcare system. Nixon vetoed the largely bipartisan effort, saying it would have “family-weakening implications”. By which, of course, he meant it would make it easier for women to work.

You know what is really “family-weakening”? Making the costs of having and raising kids so ridiculously high that it’s getting harder and harder for anyone to afford a family. According to the Census Bureau, childcare expenditures rose more than 40% from 1990 to 2011; childcare has only become more expensive since then. The same geniuses who don’t want to expand access to childcare regularly wring their hands over declining birth rates in America. Why aren’t people having kids, they ask? It’s the economy, stupid.
The p******c cost women over $800bn

Women’s lost income in 2020 totaled the combined wealth of 98 countries, Oxfam reports. Women, who are overrepresented in low-paid, precarious sectors like retail and food services, lost more than 64m jobs in 2020, amounting to at least $800bn in lost income globally. This estimate doesn’t even include wages lost by women working in the informal economy, such as domestic workers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-republicans-threatened-universal-daycare-130004338.html
(Besides the fact that the first things the GOP al... (show quote)



Nailed it !!


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May 2, 2021 21:49:01   #
Rose42
 
microphor wrote:
My son who is a resercher said coomon core math is used in our schools to benefit (financially)the person who created it, not the students


Common core math is definitely a step backwards

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May 2, 2021 22:26:54   #
rumitoid
 
Rose42 wrote:
You just aren’t happy unless you’re maligning people. Let go of that big ball of h**e you carry with you.

One of your problems is a lack of discernment. You make excuses for k*****g the most innocent of life (yes you do) and like most hyper partisans think the problem is only from one side.

There are those who are perfectly capable of seeing both sides are working against us. Your hatred prevents people like you from seeing it.


Use "Quote Reply," although your constant h**e for me sort of violates the process.

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May 3, 2021 00:33:12   #
Unintended Consequences
 
Skiladi wrote:
Parents should raise children, not the state!


You are assuming that the state is going to teach the children. First of all preschool children should be doing games or activities that develop their motor sk**ls not an academic curriculum. Second they will.be taught by teachers not the state.

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May 3, 2021 06:54:56   #
Rose42
 
rumitoid wrote:
Use "Quote Reply," although your constant h**e for me sort of violates the process.


Of course I don’t h**e you - but you want to pretend to be a victim. The h**e flows from you. It oozes from your posts - the way you word your titles and your comments before the article. You make the choice to do it.

I didn’t need quote reply - you know it. You just want to complain.

You really need to let go of all your h**e.

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May 3, 2021 12:56:24   #
crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
 
Rose42 wrote:
You just aren’t happy unless you’re maligning people. Let go of that big ball of h**e you carry with you.

One of your problems is a lack of discernment. You make excuses for k*****g the most innocent of life (yes you do) and like most hyper partisans think the problem is only from one side.

There are those who are perfectly capable of seeing both sides are working against us. Your hatred prevents people like you from seeing it.



I've given u with him & the others.

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May 3, 2021 13:48:22   #
Rose42
 
crazylibertarian wrote:
I've given u with him & the others.


I just don’t understand it - whether it comes from right or left.

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