You are truly an eccentric example of a "conservative." You complain of creeping socialism. You complain bitterly about the birth of children because of some penny ante subsidy which might cost you personally less than a daily morning cup of coffee or a daily newspaper. Your precious freedom to be a miserly cheapskate is being infringed!!! just so that these kids may live. It's JUST NOT FAIR!!!! Puhleeze!
Those children you so resent will someday be paying your social security and your medicare. THEN you won't be whining about getting the government out of your life.
It is your job, my job and everyone else's job in a free society to participate in that society and to do one's part to see to the care of those who cannot care for themselves.
Yet, not a peep out of you about an egregiously wasteful and hideously expensive system of "public schools" which seem to be little more than babysitting agencies with entertainment like sports and marching bands and alleged "drama" programs and "arts" programs to keep the kiddies distracted and under control while the parents work to support the government with their taxes and the kiddies learn very little of an academic nature. What the kiddies DO learn at the hands of their Marxist unionized "teachers" is Heinz 57 varieties of "alternative sexuality" aka perversion and why the Founders were slave-holding capitalist pigs and why Marx and Lenin were true visionaries.
Soon enough, as a result, we will be suffering galloping socialism, runaway freight train socialism, blitzkrieg socialism. Yet not a peep out of you, the supposedly $$$$$ conscious "conservative." Strange that!
Abolish public schools and set up a series of PRIVATE academies to provide actual education for half the amount saved and devote the other half to this Trump proposed program.
Criminalize the performance of abortion. Strip each ad every abortionist of any and all professional licenses PERMANENTLY and jail them or preferably execute them.
Save additional $$$$$ by abolishing the following and many more: Federal Departments of "Education," Labor, Commerce, Energy, "Civil Rights" Division of Justice and many other unnecessary divisions of Justice, foreign aid, Peace Corps, Vista, Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (reserving the name for a new chain of convenience stores), college scholarships for illegal aliens, multimillion dollar salaries for state college and state university big shots and even athletic coaches, programs to "re-educate" anyone to be more sensitive to Islam, sexual perversion, abortion, or other trendy tragedies, massive ammunition purchases by such agencies as IRS, Department of Education and many others. This is where FReepers are encouraged to add to this hit list by naming other governmental outrages that cry out to heaven for abolition.
Snuggle up to your cash register, Horace.
Thank you for reminding me. Government Schools are yet another piece of garbage that we must eliminate. Educating our children is far too important a task to continue letting government make a hash of it.
I have two of my own and don’t need a handout from the Government to raise them.
So where does this money come from to supplement “families” since it’s “all about the children?”
I profoundly second your key economic point: if we eliminated government school, our society would be awash in funds to spend on, among other things, child-care for at-risk mothers.