2 Repukes Justifiy Cuts To Head Start: "Women should really be married and home with their kids"

[kpete]

Women outraged over Frederick commissioners' comments
Two advise parents to stay married; women at home to raise their children
http://www.gazette.net/stories/02092011/frednew175041_32611.php

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Two of the Republican officials justified their decision to cut Head Start — which provides early childhood education to the children of low-income parents — by saying that women should really be married and home with their kids, thus rendering the program unnecessary:

COMMISSIONER C. PAUL SMITH (R): I think its very significant that we did make this marriage week announcement today, because that is the best long-term way to help our children, as marriage is strengthened in our community. As many of you know, I had a lot of kids, and my wife stayed home, at significant sacrifice, during those early years, because she knew she had to be with those kids at that critical age. I know everybody isn’t able to survive doing that, but clearly, as we can strengthen marriage we can decrease the children that we have to reach.

COMMISSIONER KIRBY DELAUTER (R): My wife, college educated, could go out and get a very good job. She gave that up for 18 years so she could stay home with our kids, we had to give up a lot to do that. I agree again with Commissioner Smith, you know, the marriage thing is very important. I mean, education of your kids starts at home, okay? I never relied on anyone else to guarantee the education of my kids.

more:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/16/gop-women-kids/

[WhiteTara]

1. Let's see, incarcerate large numbers of young men

render them incapable of getting a job and then say there should be one worker families? Oh, what a bastard...
What is the term when they come from no mother?

[arbusto_baboso]

9. And let's not forget that they also made it impossible for most 2 parent households...

to survive on one income. How the hell is mom supposed to stay home with her children if the family needs 2 incomes?

[whathehell]

12. Yes, or simply pay the non-incarcerated something called a Living Wage

The irony is that the "good old days" of one working parent the Repukes like to

harken back to were largely a product of the forties, fifties and sixties, a period of time

when UNIONS were strong and mothers could afford to stay home

with their children if they so chose....

That's what my mother did and she was able because

my hard working UNION MEMBER father was paid a LIVING wage!!

[TheMadMonk]

27. Drill seargant. (sorry you walked into that one) /nt

[RainDog]

2. oh what turds in the punchbowl of democracy

I wonder if their kids ever went to camp - ever went to Parent's Day Out Programs - I'd LOVE to see the amount paid to babysitters when those assholes' kids were younger.

The total inability to appreciate the problems of poverty leads me to believe that these folks are simply too fucking stupid to hold office.

...but they probably want to force women to be married, even when they're with abusers and things like that cause it's such a "christian" position to take that women should be with a man even when he's a danger to her or her children.

It's good I don't have super powers because, if I did, every single one of these jerk offs would drop dead.

[MattBaggins]

5. They have no understanding at all what the majority

of Americans go through to survive on minimum wage.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

Idiots

[PA Democrat]

4. The Republican way: punish the children for the "crimes" of the mother.

It is apparently a crime for women to be single mothers and/or poor. No mention of the responsibility of men, I see.

[AmandaRuth]

6. yeah. right. And there are just so many jobs

out there that will support a family. tons and tons. the economy is just dripping with them.

[RavensChick]

7. Figures.

Let Head Start be the cause of all our problems. Oh, I get it! Just because mommy has to work 1, 2, or even 3 jobs to make ends meet does not mean the children won't be looked after by caring, responsible adults in a program that for all practical purposes will help them in their development and growth so they can be productive members of society. Sounds like a good idea to me!!

:sarcasm:

[efhmc]

8. As usual, the repukes want all these babies to be brought

into this world but god forbid society should help them with education, health care, or any support of any kind.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. This is such bunco bullshit.

If a woman decides to stay at home with their kids, I applaud her. I did it and don't regret my decision. Just wish I could have done it under healthier circumstances.

But I'll tell you what I never got from Republicans in my area. They never, never patted me on the back for my decision. They were the WORST when it came to expecting me to go out and find a job.

You can never make them happy. You will go insane the day you try.

[KansDem]

11. Were we all just bounced back to the 1950s?

Raping of women is "God's will."

Women impregnated by rapists should bear their children...again "God's will."

Now, women should be married and bearing children.

For the GOP, sacrifice is expected only of the poor, working class, medical patients, unions, middle class, women, students, immigrants, and artists...

Come to think of it, I don't think it was this bad during the 1950s!

[arcane1]

13. Dumbasses assume these women work only because they WANT TO

:grr:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. And if they are married, that will make the man love and support them.

Uh, No, it won't.

They think that if you are married, then you automatically have two committed people who will make the marriage work.

They are fetishing a piece of paper. A marriage certificate will not make someone love you, or respect you, or get a job to support you, or make them stop abusing you.

Totally misguided and magical thinking.

[tanyev]

15. I sure wish Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann were home with their kids.

But I bet he's happy to make an exception for them.

[aquart]

16. Their wives sacrificed. What did THEY sacrifice?

[marmar]

17. I pride myself on not hating anyone......

..... but I swear what I feel for these f**kers is nothing but hate.

[muntrv]

18. Maybe if you repukes weren't so opposed to paying living wages,

there wouldn't be any need for both parents to be working!

[MissMarple]

19. Stupidity abounds. Donald Trump was right on Peirs Morgan.

He was referring to Congress. He said our great elected personages are really stupid and they are making our foreign policy. Well, they don't help, and Donald's knowledge of how our government works is obviously rooted in his experience and knowledge of others buying influence. But he did make some cogent points. You just have to be mindful that when he is talking about the smartest guys on Wall Street and in the mega corporations being sharks, that he is a big shark, as well. Charming on a one to one, of course, but not to be trusted with granny's money. Not at all. I did like some of his comments on China, though.

[DefenseLawyer]

20. Kirby Delauter-

from his own bio: "in 1993, purchased the family business W.F. Delauter and Son, Inc. with current business partner Carl Athey. The business was started in 1955 by Kirby’s grandfather Willie F. Delauter and his father Russell Delauter. The business continues to operate today doing projects in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia."

See, if everyone would just inherit their grandfather's business like he did we wouldn't need all these fucking handouts. Obviously most people just haven't been willing to make the sacrifice necessary to inherit a boatload of money like my man, Kirby. Deadbeats.

[Missy Vixen]

21. We both went to Head Start

We both had married parents with stay-at-home mothers.

Our fathers worked at UNION jobs.

Those. Are. Gone. Now.

The blog post above and the quotes need to go viral. Working families need to know what they are up against, if they don't already.

-MV

[Ilsa]

22. A lot of kids do so much better learning at Head Start vs sitting at home.

Why not give the kids the option of going to school if Mom can find a job or get additional training herself?

[d_r]

23. I've read that

early education is so important that it can buffer at risk children from later life difficulties, and in fact every one dollar spent on head start funding saves eight dollars in future costs from high school drop outs, incarceration, teen pregnancy etc.

[eleny]

24. What's next - A Handmaid's Tale?

[Curmudgeoness]

25. If only those kids would stay in the womb! All would be well. nt

[derby378]

26. A guest speaker at the fundamentalist church I went to as a kid...

...talked about how the economy was so bad in the Soviet Union that the mother couldn't stay at home; she had to work so that the kids would have food to eat and a roof over their heads. But then he talked about how that arrangement was really convenient for the Communist government, because then the children had to go to school where they got hours of indoctrination every day into the teachings of Lenin.

[pansypoo53219]

28. when are they gonna bad divorce OR

up child support to ex/child support so they don't need money?