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To: ConservativeStatement

As a single woman who works with many single women, I can tell you about some issues and perceptions. Many single women are single parents. Their hot button issues are childcare and making ends meet (affordable insurance, affordable power, affordable gasoline, affordable food.)

They would characterize the Republican party as facilitating the lives of the rich and famous they read about in People magazine or watch on tv. It does not make sense to them that the Republican party would seemingly support raising taxes on them while protecting the wealthy who have so much. The Republican party also wants to cut funding to the safety net that supports them.

They are drawn to things that make them feel secure in a non-violent world, because part of them is occupied in nurturing children. They want wars to cease and they want guns to be taken from private persons.

Some are likely care givers to elderly parents. They want some help out with that - affordable care, respite care, etc.

They are more likely to have had low paying jobs and have not put aside retirement savings. They want to know that they have a secure future and won’t be abandoned in age.

That is why they call the social issues “women’s issues.”


97 posted on 12/15/2012 10:03:57 AM PST by marsh2
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To: marsh2

Sounds as though almost all of these single woman problems are because they are unmarried with children.

So they want government to support and protect them.

That is not the government’s duty.


137 posted on 12/15/2012 2:15:40 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: marsh2
This sounds like my wife's family, low performing, low education levels, make a series of bad life choices with men and expect the government to support one, low information (my parents just called them ignorant Democrats) , members of the culture of low and/or no expectations. In many ways extending the franchise to women was not at all a good idea. It has become the Shirt of Nessus poisoning our society and our nation.
158 posted on 12/15/2012 3:10:34 PM PST by robowombat
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