"I don't want anybody being day care poor" - is there ANYTHING that Progressives believe people can be without? - Granite Grok

“I don’t want anybody being day care poor” – is there ANYTHING that Progressives believe people can be without?

“I don’t want anybody being day care poor”

Is there ANYTHING that Progressives believe, at this point,  people should do for themselves?  I think not and certainly my taxes, more and more, reflect that.  Certainly, our national debt says that.  As Steve’s favorite (ok, one of them) phrase goes “Is it EVER enough”?  Sadly, no.  I’ve oft decried the notion that has become prevalent the last couple of decades and summarize it this way: why bother to have kids?

Obama launches $80B child care push

President Obama on Thursday detailed a new $80 billion proposal intended to help more families afford child care as part of a post-State of the Union policy push the White House hopes can win over Republicans and independents.  The president called for the federal government to dramatically expand the Child Care and Development Fund, a federal program that provides states grants for childcare assistance programs to help low- and middle-income families.

“In today’s economy, when having both parents in the workforce is an economic necessity for many families, affordable, high-quality child care and early childhood education — these aren’t just nice to have, this is a must-have,” Obama said in remarks at the University of Kansas.

Seriously – what is the point of having kids when someone else always has them?

Yes, there are those that need help – again, we ran a day care center and for single parents, they need help (if you only look at the surface – I’ve blogged on the deeper stuff before).  “Both parents in the workforce”; it didn’t use to be that way – when Government was smaller and less intrusive.  Bigger government, more regulations, more costs, more taxes – and add to that a changing culture that Feminism has brought in which traditional child-rearing is at best sneered at if not outright a public detriment (read Ana Marie Cox if you don’t believe me – and she’s one of the mild ones.  And no, I’m not gonna link her).

Stay at home Moms?  More and more I see them framed as “freaks” and extremists.  Look at one of the new spending plans Obama proposed – a $500 tax credit for marrieds with jobs.  What about the stay at home Mom?  Of no value to Progressive Obama – after all, she’s not “helping our economy”?  What – marrieds should work even as single women with children oft get free rides?  Oh, but they are victims and oppressed by the Patriarchy and Society.  Married women,  they made a decision TO BE INDEPENDENT!

The White House says more money is necessary because budgetary restraints mean only a fraction of children who qualify for assistance receive it. Subsidies provided to those who qualify often don’t do enough to cover child care costs. The proposal to expand the development fund comes on top of the president’s proposal to triple the maximum child care tax credit available to middle-class families. Under Obama’s plan, parents could receive up to a $3,000 credit.  And the White House wants to create a new program to help young families who have trouble finding suitable child care programs because they work uncommon hours or live in rural areas.

“Expanding access in the early childhood space is tremendously important,” domestic policy adviser Cecelia Muñoz said Thursday.

Sorry, not buying it.  I’ve watch kids who have been in daycare their entire lives – and those that have not.  I am convinced that if you can, make the sacrifice to have a parent at home.  Trust me, even good daycare workers and teachers can not BEGIN to take care of your kids the way YOU can.  Not happening.  Sure, they care and they may become attached to them, but in no way or fashion and with the LOVE you have for them.  They will do better with you than in any daycare – and we were considered to be the best in our area.  I know of which I speak.  To expand this – no.  If you are “for the kids” BE for your kids and stay home with them.  Do not let others see those special firsts that you will miss forever.  Don’t let others bake in the habits and knowledge that are a parent’s responsibility.  And DON’T let others instill the Morality and Values that should be your responsibility alone.

And don’t be in the position, since your teachers will be with them MORE than you will, of coming to the daycare at the end of a long day and see your kids wanting to stay with their teacher.  I’ve watched, with horror, the meltdowns of the kids that clung to their teacher (and oft times, it was TMEW) and the worse ones by the Moms when they realize what has just happened – and why.

It is not a happy memory.  Or actually, a whole bunch of memories.  Here’s another one – the faces of those parents when their childrens’ teacher tells them their child inconsolable all day long, crying for Mommy – and Mommy wasn’t there.  And the kid’s face (red eyes, snotty nose, slack body language) shows it and so does there now non-functional voice from wailing all day long.

In his speech in Kansas, Obama pitched the proposal as something that could cut across partisan lines. The White House has said Obama’s post-State of the Union swing through two red states — Idaho and Kansas — was a deliberate attempt to reach voters across the aisle.  “Republican families feel it just as much as Democratic families,” Obama said. “There’s no distinction. I don’t want any family to face the choice between not working or leaving their children in unsafe or poor-quality child care.”

Yet another straw man argument – but also see the bias in that the underlying assumption is that EVERYONE wants to work – and should be (after all, gotta turn in more taxes for him to spend!).

…”I don’t want anybody being day care poor,” he said.  Before speaking at the school, Obama visited a community center where preschool was funded through the federal Head Start program.

Yeah, even HHS’s own study said the educational value was pretty much not worth the billions spent on it – but it does fund Democrat union workers!

“The light in all of these children’s eyes, you know, that the sense of possibility and potential for these kids made me just that much more determined to keep strengthening and keep promoting and expanding early childhood education, to give all of our children a strong start,” Obama said.

The strong start would be home with Moms and Dads.  Mr. Obama, if you REALLY want to help, create policies where parents no longer have to decide to HAVE to work!  Make the “need” for daycare go away because a parent can then stay home.

Otherwise, all you are doing is, not promoting daycare, but promoting Government Dependency.

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