melon said:
On the other hand, how is reality really that much different than what Clinton was talking about? A lot of people already send their children to day care. A lot of people already send their children to school starting at 3 years old. A lot of mothers, also, *have to* work and they do not have adequate day care, due to its prohibitive cost for many. I think that a day care system, similar to how some European nations handle it, would be very helpful.
This is a debate I don't want to get into. But the main thing I am getting at is that while of course a lot of people already do, they can choose where the kid will be sent and can take it out or change day cares at their choice any time. It's not 'forced' and most of all it's not government run, mandated or endorsed. That scares me.
A lot of people have kids watched by friends, relatives and home sitters too. I have also seen reports that she wanted to make the home day cares illegal, or that no government aid would be given to people who select this kind of care. Not only is that putting people who use it for an income out of work, what it's saying is that only specially trained, government approved people are fit to watch your kid, and that's scary as hell to me. It all reeks of raising the kids together with an agenda to brainwash them a certain way, as I brought up with Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. If the government wants to pay for child care so bad, they can give the money to the parents and let them spend it as they choose.
In my personal opinion, I don't think the government should pay for child care in families that are not low income. There should definitely be a limit to the amount a family can make and get it paid for. Help the struggling, yes. But don't subsidize it so somebody can work when they don't really "have" to and the only reason they are working is to buy fancier stuff. If they want to do that, it's their business, but let them pay for child care themselves and not add the burden to the taxpayers.
I truly hope Hillary's vision of raising kids in America never comes to pass.
One more thing about her and kids that makes me angry is the time she visited the wife of Polish leader Lec Walensa, who has 8 children. She was quoted as saying how great it was the lady had 8 kids and how she wished she'd had a big family!
Bullshit. She hates mothers like Mrs. Walensa, she was only patronizing, and gagging to herself inside. She only had 1 and that must have been a real burden on her.
Speaking of Chelsea Clinton, has anybody seen her new face? She got drastic plastic surgery.
a "forced" day care. After all, that's our public school system.
Melon
Yes, it is, and a free babysitter
I'm ashamed to say I know parents, even mothers who don't work, who love to get rid of their kids that way and dread vacations. They hope the bus will come as late as possible in the afternoons.