Who's "we," kemosabee? And if you want to keep more kids in the schoolags,
...and more mothers in the People's workforce...
...then YOU pay for it.
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:
So yet another ‘choice’ Democrats oppose
Very true, sarasmom!
Who's "we," kemosabee? And if you want to keep more kids in the schoolags,
...and more mothers in the People's workforce...
...then YOU pay for it.
Can't you feel the love in this old Soviet daycare?
The goal of the Left is control of the children from birth through age 22, just as in the old Soviet Union, because they're communists.
That's why they want "free" universal pre-school, daycare and college.
I'm a dad. On the weekends I clean up around the house, mow the lawn and do a few other assorted chores. I work a lot harder than I do during the week when I'm slaving over a hot computer. And my kids are grown! 8-)
I bust my butt so Mrs. Joe can be 'mom' to two of our grandkids. My Mother was a 'stay at home' Mom, doing what my parents considered the most important job--raising us. I wouldn't have had it any different, not then, and not if I could go back and change it.
The focal point of our parents was the children. Not the latest gadget, the biggest TV (or even color TV), but our upbringing, education, our being formed as human beings with a sense of who we were, where we came from, based on our heritage, not the assumptions of some biased history or grievance studies graduate.
Colonists, a Manor Lord, a Signer of the Declaration, a Blockade Runner, all in the list of relatives over the centuries, and that only on these shores. A heritage of doing what was right, even if it was inconvenient or costly, of standing and being counted, of making our life count, of serving our community and our family--things that cannot be nurtured at the breast of the State--especially now.
I’ll bet the progressives dream about such daycare factories.
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