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Ernst: With the Right Mix of Policies, We Can Address the Child Care Crisis
The Iowa Torch ^ | 03/01/21 | Joni Ernst

Posted on 03/01/2021 1:49:38 PM PST by Pining_4_TX

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To: Bratch

How can you be against this cherry picked “issue”? It’s for the children!!


21 posted on 03/01/2021 2:44:59 PM PST by proust (All posts made under this ip are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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22 posted on 03/01/2021 2:51:48 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Pining_4_TX

I thought Ernst was one of ours?


23 posted on 03/01/2021 3:00:10 PM PST by albie
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To: Pining_4_TX

Ernst is weird, since her first election and was, I think, one who had a strong opponent in her re-election?

She came out for sympathy (well earned) saying she had been assaulted when she was young. But, she looked like it had just happened! She looked like hell, pale and unkempt.

She won her re-election, though. There ya’ are.


24 posted on 03/01/2021 3:07:27 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Publik Skules/Academia -> The Farm team, for more Marxists coming. Infinitum.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

In most areas child care is more expensive than private school tuition.


25 posted on 03/01/2021 3:08:49 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: ClearCase_guy

Exactly. Child care isn’t a crisis and it isn’t the government’s problem.
The push to keep Americans immature and helpless without the government’s intervention continues.


26 posted on 03/01/2021 3:24:19 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

It used to be that grandparents took a shift of watching the kids.


27 posted on 03/01/2021 3:27:57 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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We have many more basic issues.

This falls in line with Republicans wanting cheap labor.

The Dems ushered out the Production jobs and then they sent IT jobs to India and the Philippines.

And then we sign agreements that allow China and India to do as they please, while America gets punished.


28 posted on 03/01/2021 3:36:14 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: BenLurkin

The crisis where you can’t afford to have one parent stay at home, or pay the child care costs.

A big reason for the low birthrate and high immigration


29 posted on 03/01/2021 3:38:30 PM PST by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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To: Pining_4_TX

They aspire to nothing more than being Assistant Democrats.


30 posted on 03/01/2021 3:48:40 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Pining_4_TX

If parents cared for their own kids there’d be no crisis


31 posted on 03/01/2021 4:12:41 PM PST by wny ( s)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Hmmmmm. Just pondering this child care crisis from a historical perspective. Let’s see here, in the 60’s and before that, there was no child care crisis. I wonder why??

Now we have the left taking hold in the 60’s and making advances in the 70’s. Now child care facilities spring up. Hmmm, why?

Fast forward to today, and oh, what a mess. The left is in full charge, and we have a child care crisis.

I will now commit heresy. If the left had left the family unit alone where there is a dedicated mother that is married to a dedicated father, there would be no need for child care.


32 posted on 03/01/2021 5:12:53 PM PST by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Absolutely. Not only is it unfair to those who stay with their children rather than farming them out, but it also ups the pressure on all families to farm their kids out by upping the financial incentives for it.


33 posted on 03/01/2021 6:07:54 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Yes, the increasing tax burden on families as the government hands out more “free” stuff ensures that both parents will probably have to work to make ends meet. Having both parents in the workforce contributes to the low birth rates in western countries, and that is resulting in an aging society. It’s bad on all levels.


34 posted on 03/01/2021 6:48:50 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (In a free world, nobody is equal. In an equal world, nobody is free. )
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Not really. She has always been squidgy in spite of her talk. She is, as Texans say, all hat and no cattle.


35 posted on 03/01/2021 6:49:29 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (In a free world, nobody is equal. In an equal world, nobody is free. )
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