Posted on 10/31/2014 4:06:12 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The October surprises just keep on coming, courtesy of President Obama. According to The Weekly Standard, “during a speech in Rhode Island today, President Obama called for more taxpayer-spending on pre-school in order to “make sure that women are full and equal participants in our economy.”
I can respect that. But then the President followed those remarks by saying (emphasis added):
And sometimes someone, usually mom, leaves the workplace to stay at home with the kids, which then leaves her earning a lower wage for the rest of her life as a result. That’s not a choice we want Americans to make.
Um, ok. I’m interpreting his remarks to mean that women shouldn’t have to choose between lower wages or being stay at home mothers. Sounds noble, but it’s not realistic, at least not in most cases.
Condescension aside, aggravating is the constant drum beat of the modern “feminist” lie that women can have it all. It’s simply not true. Those with successful careers and families are routinely put in a place of choosing one or the other. Men with families also find themselves in the same dilemma, yet no one wants to talk about their struggles, because “feminism.”
Beyond perpetuating modern “feminist” myths is an even nastier issue with the President’s poorly worded statements: are we really in a place culturally where it’s acceptable to demonize a woman’s choice to stay at home as, “not a choice we want Americans to make”? Evidently so.
Of course, being a stay-at-home mom is not the right decision for every woman or for every family; but the blatant labeling of that choice as somehow inferior or “lesser” is just the latest statist assault on the family unit.
You can watch the video at the link:
As opposed to his old lady that has ruined lunch for millions of schoolkids.
Obama just wishes those stay at home Mom’s had aborted their children..Obama sees children as a burden always has
Talk about a war on women..
So abortion is to get more women in the workplace.
yes barry it would be terrible if moms stayed home and raised their kids instead of govt daycare, govt schools and govt social workers raised them.
simce when was parenting kids at home turned into a bad choice?
idiot. idiot communist.
They are only pro-choice for abortion.
who is this “we” Obama speaks about. Doesn’t even have the guts to speak for himself.
Just like he didn’t want us choosing those “cheap sub-standard” health care insurance plans we were all duped into using for the last fifty years.
Mr. President, take it from me, and Stay Outta the Bushes!
Signed; Your White Daddy;/
Bill J. Clinton.(CIC)
If the mom stays home with her kids she may be indoctrinating that poor child with rubbish about God, morals, and principles. The makes it harder for the public schools to undo the damage done./sarc
Many home-school families are willing to sacrifice income so the mother can stay home and raise the children outside of the government indoctrination centers. Maybe that is the choice Obummer doesn't want us to make.
If women choose to be stay at home moms, they will raise their kids themselves instead of sending them to the early indoctrination camps, and if the families are serious about keeping govt.’s hands off their children, they may even become dreaded homeschoolers. How will the govt. ever get to indoctrinate those kids? We just can’t have that. Women must work outside the home, away from their kids!/s
Being a SaHM is a good way to go virtual Galt.
The very words in my head!
Well Obama is liberal, and liberals have contempt for stay at home mothers. Per feminist theology, mothers need to be in high powered professional careers. Per feminist theology women don’t have a choice to stay home with the children or cut back career ambitions to accomodate family responsibilities.
Per liberals, mothers need to fit in their families around the demands of a career, not fit her work around the needs of her family.
I wish his mother had seen him that way. By the way, what job did his mother ever hold down to support her and 0dumb0 as a child or teenager? None that I am aware of!
WE ARE THE STATE....WE WILL RAISE YOUR KIDS!!!!
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