I'm really getting tired of conservatives attacking the
poor. I guess the poor will be the
scapegoat of the current age. I've been
hearing a lot of negative comments about "welfare" recipients, which
usually just means anyone on food stamps.
All food stamp recipients are made out to be fat, uneducated, drug-users
who never work. What I don't understand
is why education and child care are not seen as "welfare" by these
same conservatives?
Usually, any statement against "welfare"
recipients begins with, "I shouldn't have to pay for someone else's
(fill-in the blank). Why is it morally
deplorable to force citizens to pay for someone else's food but not morally
deplorable to force citizens to pay for someone else's children to attend Head
Start, kindergarten, or day care? Are we
really saying parents shouldn't be expected to have to watch their own children
or teach their children the basics of colors, shapes, phonics, writing letters,
counting, addition, and subtraction, but that we need government programs and
other people's money to do these things.
Methinks the reason why conservatives don't complain about these things
is because they use this type of government welfare and so therefore justify
its necessity.
I also think conservatives want everyone to be a good little
taxpayer and that the only goal in life is to make a ton of money. I want conservatives to stop pretending to
care about traditional family values.
You are not promoting family values if you expect poor or middle class
married women to work instead of caring for their children while seeing nothing
wrong with an entire generation of children being raised by government daycare
programs and government schools for elementary education. You are not honoring traditional marriage or
traditional family values if you believe only rich people should have children
or only rich people's children should reap the benefits of having a stay-at-home
parent. You are not going to improve the
morality of a nation or the repair the breakdown of the family by expecting all
married women to work while their children get raised by the collective.
If it is time to crack down on welfare, maybe we should
start cracking down on all types of welfare and government subsidies
equally. Public schools were created to
educate those who were incapable of educating themselves. They shouldn't be used as an excuse for
parents to expect someone else to do a job they are quite capable of doing and
should be doing themselves.
