Posted on 02/19/2016 5:32:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
Americans "have to be sensitive" to people who are working two jobs and barely making ends meet, Republican John Kasich said Thursday night at a CNN-hosted town hall.
He used the example of a single, working mother with a couple of children: "Think about that mother -- gets up early in the morning; gets the kids off to school; goes to work; comes home; makes dinner. They're the heroes. They're really -- these single women with children are the real heroes in America, in my opinion." [...]
"Well, the one thing we want to make sure is they have healthcare, right? And that's a critical part for the working poor. But look, it all gets down to training and skills. And one of the things that we have to recognize in this country today is we have to have life-long learning and we have to keep training ourselves for the jobs that exist today, and the jobs that exist tomorrow.
"But I've got to tell you, when you think about these working poor, especially if it's a woman, and her husband walked out on her and she's got a couple of kids, we've got to look at the child care. We've got to think about the child care tax credit. And we've got to get employers to begin to realize that, you know, give this person a chance. Give them a chance to be able to move up. Because if you get stuck, then it doesn't work." ...
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And guess what, John, Democrats still won't vote for you.
My old country mother was a widow so some people today would call her a single mother but being a southern European woman she would certainly take umbrage with that. Women like my mother valued her honor.
Ok I hear you. We will not give up. Those kids need direction and discipline.
With slightly better lunar landscape face.
When they start using the liberals language you know that person will just play follow the leader. He gave notice that he did not really understand conservative values but wanted to be accepted by the kool crowd.
PANDER BEAR!
Exactly. I have taken several night classes, and usually the professor asks each student to introduce themselves. I can’t even count the number of times that women have stood up in class and the first words out of their mouths after telling every their name is, “I am a SINGLE MOTHER!” They say it like they are Medal of Honor recipients.
No thread on single mothers is complete without one of these posts.
When I read this hesdline, no joke, as I finished the last four words “real heroes in America”, one of those deep laughs hits my lungs, the kind that runs right to your nose and up to your brain and makes you shake your head in both a reactive “man, what a dork this guy is” and “he is alive only to be laughed at”.
The first image that came to my mind was some backward mama who is stupid enough to let herself get knocked up by some rap thug whose going to dump her as his badge of honor within the pants falling off crowd of cultural degeneracy shovel heads of which some suckers think we should respect the unrespectful.
Maybe Kasich meant some other single moms, who knows, but whoever these are they are a minority next to the thuggies.
I don’t need to read the article to get clarification, anyone who would say this is a dork and I am not interested, anyway Kasich is confusing since I thought according to him, the real hero in America is a mailman.
Or should I say, mailperson?
Oh, yeah. The welfare queens. They are the real heroes /s
After 16 years as a single Dad with four kids, I guess single dads don’t count.
Around here, 95% say, “I’m a single MOM”, but with the same tone of voice, like it’s an award of some kind.
Was a time when this sort of thing was a cause of shame but you know the patriarchy and you've come a long way baby.
I just read Mrs. Kleborn’s book. The father was in the home. It was several years after the Columbine shooting that they got divorced. Of course it is written from her point of view, but it did seem like a normal household. Parents married many years, involved with kids’ school activities, house always open to kids’ friends. They may have been a little indulgent but in a normal middle class way, not the affluenza teen way. She was devastated and dumbfounded by the shooting/suicide. The fact is some kids go off the rails even when raised in a “normal” home.
Exactly.
OK, thanks for clarifying, I was asking since I didn’t have any real information on the situation. I guess my next question would have to be about belief in God - any info from the book that addresses that?
As I remembered they believed in God but weren’t regular churchlgoers. I think the kids went to Sunday School when young. The mom only worked part time and spent a lot of time with her kids. It didn’t make sense, he’d just gone to his prom and visited the college he was to attend in Arizona. I don’t think he was on anti-depressants. The mom was genuinely clueless about how troubled he was and claims she didn’t even recognize the son she knew in the videos he and his accomplice shot prior to the massacre. Teenagers can be weird. Who knows what they’re really thinking?
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