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Should Daycare Be Subsidized

Should Daycare Be Subsidized?

  • Yes, Should Be Fixed Price (Quebec)

    Votes: 2 5.0%
  • Yes, Means-Tested (France)

    Votes: 8 20.0%
  • No, It Should Not Be Subsidized

    Votes: 30 75.0%

  • Total voters
    40
Well, I live in the real world where everyone has children, those who can least afford it having the most. Now, if you favor mandatory abortions and birth control for the stupid, poor and genetically unfit...you may be living in the wrong decade, and the wrong country. Adolf went thataway.

The bolded part is very telling. I have a customer who has a lot of tattoos, one I particularly like is the bullet hole in the top of his foot. He got that one after another run in with the law, he put it there to remind himself of his propensity to shoot himself in the foot.

"Those who can least afford it having the most (children)". This sounds like the description of a series of bad decisions to me. Should we keep bandaging the foot every time they shoot it, or teach them not to shoot themselves in the foot? I've stopped shooting myself and am teaching gun safety to others... both literally and figuratively. Allowing people to be subsidized while they continue to make poor decisions would be bad enough, what our government is doing (and you appear to be agreeing with) is rewarding them for bad decisions because they (government) benefit from it. The major problem here is where the "help" comes from. Those of us who give of ourselves to help others expect results. Those who use other people's money to "help" don't want to work themselves out of a job. There are benefits to being able to buy power with other people's money. Anywhere outside of government buying stuff with other people's money would be called "theft" and where I live it might get you shot. Perhaps we need to start shooting the thieves.
 
So you are advocating the successful having children and those who are unable to care for themselves avoid having others they can't care for either? I'm afraid in today's world that will make you some kind of "ist". Not sure which one, but your common sense will likely make you a target of the willfully weak.

I don't give a damn what it makes me sound like, I espouse responsibility, period. That's the cornerstone of conservatism. If you don't espouse that, you've got the wrong lean selected.
 
We're really looking to absolve people of pretty much all responsibility, aren't we? We're not even expected to use forethought and determine if we can even afford kids anymore before having them.
 
I don't give a damn what it makes me sound like, I espouse responsibility, period. That's the cornerstone of conservatism. If you don't espouse that, you've got the wrong lean selected.

Careful now. You have "Slightly Conservative" selected as your lean, and there's nothing 'slight' about you or your collective views.
 
Careful now. You have "Slightly Conservative" selected as your lean, and there's nothing 'slight' about you or your collective views.

It's slight to differentiate me from the religious retards on the far right. Philosophically, I'm secular conservative all the way.
 
Careful now. You have "Slightly Conservative" selected as your lean, and there's nothing 'slight' about you or your collective views.

Proof of evolution. ;)
 
Proof of evolution. ;)

Because so many people can't tell the difference between a neo-con and a conservative, I have to differentiate and that's the only real option available here. Fiscally, I'm hard-line conservative. Socially, I'm more moderate because I don't buy into the religious hate that so many people on the far right have. Then again, I'm not a religious idiot, so that helps.
 
I would not lump you in with the religious right, but I view you as "very conservative".

In some ways, yes. In others, no. So?
 
I was stuck with Very Conservative because racist bigot homophobe bitter clinger wasn't offered as a option :thumbs:
 
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