Re: Jack Booted Thugs

Hey Rudenski,
While it appears that we have some philospohical differences, we certainly have some agreements. There are some who I may disagree with, but I understand their viewpoints. Others, are so off the wall and have no backing for their viewpoints, they revert to faith and everyone else did it.
To respond to your poem, I wholeheartildy believe we have parenting crisis of spending time with kids. However, I think one of the biggest contributing factors is our government and the "family Values" coalition.
with the Government and Family Values people trying to get the government to overtake raising children, more and more parents are taking the attitude that they don't have too. I talked to a friend of mine who has 10 kids. She thinks it's great that the government has sex commericials, drug commercials and such. That way, she doesn't have to do it. That to me is exactly our problems in america. We want our government to fund day cares, their schooling, their after hours activities, what they learn about sex, drugs, where does it end? If kids are such an inconvience that you want the government to raise them, then don't have them.
This is without even mentioning the fact that if taxes were reduced (not spending money on these "family values" and the war killing iraqis) that we could give all that money back to the taxpayers, and they could decide what to do with it. Like, one spouse working less, more family vacations, a boat to spend time with the kids or whatever. I think the biggest problem is high taxes, forcing both parents to work and not spending time with the kids. Tweet