Dear Ann, About that "Choice"

by otto

Hi Ann!

I've always said that there is one surefire way to solve any of our problems related to education in this country. That surefire solution is to solve the failing family economy. Republicans are for people working multiple jobs, but they are also always for the stay at home parent, and the nuclear family.

You want to solve the problems that face America? Make it so that every family caring for a child in this country has the ability to stay at home to raise that child. Make it so that every family who cares for a kid can make the same choice you have made.

If you want to do that, you don't cut Medicaid. If you want to do that, you don't cut funding for public universities. If you want to do that, you exploit the wealth of the richest country on Earth to make it so that every single family has the option of keeping one them home.

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My Mother never had a choice about staying home. She either had to work, or we wouldn't have anything, period. After my Mother died, my Father reluctantly took us in. We had the benefit of social security death benefits. Without that, we probably would have been raised in Texas or California by my grandmother. My grandmother would leave her abusive husband and begin to work on her own, buy her own house (it sold in 2000 something for 50k), and still have time to have me and my brother come and stay with her over the Summer.

These were not choices. These were just things that happened.

So let me just repeat what I said in a comment earlier (with some additional spice for flavor):


If only every single family in the US had the ability to make the choice that you made.

Your problem isn't that you stayed at home. Your problem is that you don't understand that it is well within our power to make it so that everyone can have the opportunity to make that choice.

You and your husband are the American Family Wrecking Crew.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/12/1082727/-Dear-Ann-Let-me-Tell-You-about-my-Choice