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.

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