On 11/14/2013 9:42 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 11/14/13, 8:56 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/14/2013 8:18 AM, John H wrote:


In another post you mentioned "Universal Pre-Kindergarden Day Care".
This would, of course, require
government employees to manage the program and increase the dependency
of government handouts. In
other words, another ploy to buy Democrat votes.

It's all in the votes bought at the expense of the
'soon-to-be-minority' of the population that pays
any taxes.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!




We used to call them "babysitters" and we paid for them ourselves
because we had to work.





You boys are decades behind the times.

When my kids got to be preschool age, in the mid 70's, it cost $75 a kid
a week to send a kid to a licensed preschool with a quality program and
good teachers in our DC suburb, or about $600 a month for both of them
until one was old enough for public school kindergarten. It was do-able
on a middle class income. Nowadays, according to my neighbors, the same
sort of quality preschool is $1000 to $1200 a month for *one* child,
putting preschool out of the reach of most middle class income families,
and if they have two or three preschool kids, forget about it.

Public preschool allows both parents in a middle class household to work
and allows the parent in a single parent household to work. That's one
of the realities of life these days...it is much more expensive then
when you fellow old farts were raising babies, and incomes in terms of
real dollars have not kept pace for middle and lower income families.



In our old fart days, that's what friends, family and grandparents were
for in many cases. I recall Navy wives taking turns watching kids so
the others could work or take care of errands. We are not talking about
educating future Einsteins in "Pre-Kindergarden" for cripes sake. It's
basically day care.

When our youngest came on the scene in the 1980's he went to a licensed
day care place so Mrs.E. could go back to work. We paid for it but it
was still affordable. You have to decide if the cost of daycare versus
what you make working makes sense. It's part of the responsibility of
having and raising kids.

I can also remember being five years old and being with my grandmother
while my mother went to work.

Now the federal government is going to fund daycare services with
taxpayer's money?