Maine: Do not smoke if you're a foster parent! The DHS says so! It's ok if you sprawl on the couch at night drunk though!
DHS creates smoking rules for foster homes, vehicles
2-26-04 - article here
Nanny state ping................
Maine: Do not smoke if you're a foster parent! The DHS says so! It's ok if you sprawl on the couch at night drunk though!
DHS creates smoking rules for foster homes, vehicles
2-26-04 - article here
My Dad used to stub his cigs out in our eyes when he was done with 'em. Not only THAT, but he used to drive us around in a smoke-filled, tin-can VW Bug with NO seatbelt protection. And if we were tall enough to reach the clutch pedal, and he was too drunk, we'd be driving and smoking for him. ;)
Kids are wimps these days. ;)
What is going on this week? Man, it's been a full court press by the Nanny Staters! Grrrrr!
"Rep. Carla Dartez, D-Morgan City, said the bill infringes upon parents' rights to raise their children"
At least she has it right. All this is about is CONTROL. If they can get this far, soon they'll be knockin' on your backdoor.
THIS ISN'T ABOUT TOBACCO. It's a convieient excuse,(because we must protect you from evil tobacco users) to give them a reason to get their foot in the door of your home. "We must protect the children", is code for "we will rule every aspect of your miserable little lives."
And once they're in, they will be harder to get rid of than a colony of cockroaches.
Smoking around children increases their risk of harm. That is a bad thing. We should rightly describe it as "child abuse," but don't out of a misguided notion that it might offend the junkies who like to inhale shit into their lungs.
60 posted on 05/05/2006 7:55:05 AM PDT by WildHorseCrash
Wild horse CRAP!
Smoker's kids need to be protected from actions coming from this ignorance.
65 posted on 05/05/2006 8:00:31 AM PDT by Raycpa
Nothing worse than having to be around a smoker.
71 posted on 05/05/2006 8:02:05 AM PDT by RichardW
Richard has lived a privilege life, it seems.
That's the dumbest, most ignorant, illogical, inane and ridiculously stupid statement I've read on FreeRepublic in a while.
84 posted on 05/05/2006 8:15:23 AM PDT by WildHorseCrash
Then you haven't been reading FR much lately.
I hate to post and run, but I will leave you with this...
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
-Norman Thomas