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Who speaks for the Children?
We were comparing 1980 to now. Either you're changing the subject to trends in the past couple years (smart move considering) or you're fantasizing that today's twenty-somethings see worse housing prospects than their parents saw.Umm slow housing sales proves my point......Actual historical records of financial net worth show kids are richer. Enrollment and test scores show higher educational levels. Actuary tables show life expectancy has increased. Divorce rates have fallen. The only thing worse is your feelings...
Economic policies since Reagan have had a negative effect on America, but they particularly affect the Children. Democrats and Lame Stream Media do not fight hard enough for our children or they simply neglect the effects so called compassionate conservatism has had on the working poor and especially on the children.
'The Decade of Lost Children' By Charles M. Blow
"The number of children living in poverty has increased by four million since 2000, and the number of children who fell into poverty between 2008 and 2009 was the largest single-year increase ever recorded."
America has lost its soul and replaced it with greed and the worship of corporate power. "As a report issued last week by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities points out: Of the 47 states with newly enacted budgets, 38 or more states are making deep, identifiable cuts in K-12 education, higher education, health care, or other key areas in their budgets for fiscal year 2012." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/opinion/the-decade-of-lost-children.html?src=me&ref=general
"Its hard to see how we emerge from this downturn and its tumult a stronger nation if we allow vast swatches of our children to be lost. My fear is that we may not."
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness." George Bernard Shaw
Exactly, and what it began with--This thread started out as without credibility......credibility in this thread went out the window the moment that you...--is nonsense. If we like humanity then we love children and want them to live, prosper, and be happy. Let's compare the lives of children of the '80's to the lives of their parents. Replace mindless politics with observable fact. Today's twenty-somethings are more wealthy, better educated, are healthier, and have more stable families than their parents did. Anyone who disagrees is invited to ditch their sick attitudes and useless feelings and turn to the hard facts found in historical records.Economic policies since Reagan have had a negative effect on America, but they particularly affect the Children...
Reality, love it or leave it.
Ahhhh, the sign of the lost argument..... 'think of the children'. LMAO.
Amen.
Gonna have to rep ya for that one.
First, if our "poor" have so many problems, why do they all have cars, phones, flat screens, a/c and heat?
For conservatives this is not an issue if children are lost due to poverty or other economic factors, so be it its an acceptable consequence and will serve as an incentive for others to do better.Economic policies since Reagan have had a negative effect on America, but they particularly affect the Children.
"Its hard to see how we emerge from this downturn and its tumult a stronger nation if we allow vast swatches of our children to be lost. My fear is that we may not."
Conservatives believe humans are motivated by only two factors: fear and greed.
OK, I'm willing to admit that you live with and know a lot more about bullcrap than I ever will, but I'm not talking about that. Actual historical records of financial net worth show kids are richer. Enrollment and test scores show higher educational levels. Actuary tables show life expectancy has increased. Divorce rates have fallen. The only thing worse is your feelings but that's more a matter of choice than reality.Bullcrap!...
Umm slow housing sales proves my point. More children to buy homes less homes sold where do they live?
Do a bit of research on the subject I know i will never get past the bullcrap with you.
OK, I'm willing to admit that you live with and know a lot more about bullcrap than I ever will, but I'm not talking about that. Actual historical records of financial net worth show kids are richer. Enrollment and test scores show higher educational levels. Actuary tables show life expectancy has increased. Divorce rates have fallen. The only thing worse is your feelings but that's more a matter of choice than reality.
Umm slow housing sales proves my point. More children to buy homes less homes sold where do they live?
Do a bit of research on the subject I know i will never get past the bullcrap with you.
Why does everyone need a home? The housing market is full of rental property to, just because people are not buying a house they cannot afford does not mean they are living in mommy's basement.
Umm slow housing sales proves my point. More children to buy homes less homes sold where do they live?
Do a bit of research on the subject I know i will never get past the bullcrap with you.
Why does everyone need a home? The housing market is full of rental property to, just because people are not buying a house they cannot afford does not mean they are living in mommy's basement.
Who's living in the basement?
We got where we are right now in the housing market because of people wanting more then you could afford.
Why does everyone need a home? The housing market is full of rental property to, just because people are not buying a house they cannot afford does not mean they are living in mommy's basement.
Who's living in the basement?
We got where we are right now in the housing market because of people wanting more then you could afford.
She is right. Something the politicians will not talk about..therefore the media doesn't either.. More homes are under water due to re-fi's than purchases. So, where is the equity cash these people took out of there home's? They blew it on vacations, cars, clothes, etc.............
Politicians are sickening.. They deregulated so this would happen... Most of the blame should be placed on the Democrats.. This was all started under Clinton.. fueled by Bush and lead by the cock sucking degenerate Bwaney Fwank and his ass kissing buddy Chris Dodd.
The politicians are so worried about votes its a no mention issue!
Wall street leaked the problem and shorted the markets.. They made billions on the loses.. and then got billions in stimulus money. This is the biggest rip off scam in US history.
Blues
Economic policies since Reagan have had a negative effect on America, but they particularly affect the Children.
"Its hard to see how we emerge from this downturn and its tumult a stronger nation if we allow vast swatches of our children to be lost. My fear is that we may not."
For conservatives this is not an issue if children are lost due to poverty or other economic factors, so be it its an acceptable consequence and will serve as an incentive for others to do better.
Conservatives believe humans are motivated by only two factors: fear and greed.
Economic policies since Reagan have had a negative effect on America, but they particularly affect the Children. Democrats and Lame Stream Media do not fight hard enough for our children or they simply neglect the effects so called compassionate conservatism has had on the working poor and especially on the children.
'The Decade of Lost Children' By Charles M. Blow
"The number of children living in poverty has increased by four million since 2000, and the number of children who fell into poverty between 2008 and 2009 was the largest single-year increase ever recorded."
America has lost its soul and replaced it with greed and the worship of corporate power. "As a report issued last week by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities points out: Of the 47 states with newly enacted budgets, 38 or more states are making deep, identifiable cuts in K-12 education, higher education, health care, or other key areas in their budgets for fiscal year 2012." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/opinion/the-decade-of-lost-children.html?src=me&ref=general
"Its hard to see how we emerge from this downturn and its tumult a stronger nation if we allow vast swatches of our children to be lost. My fear is that we may not."
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness." George Bernard Shaw
The heartless republicans and conservatives of today flat out astound me, not one intelligent reply from any of them. While Social Darwinism as an economic and political concept died long ago, the self centered greed of SD lives on in the American right.
While the OP was about America it is estimated that 150 million live and work in sweatshops and enslavement. How many here purchase Nike for instance? Here is a piece on the sweatshop policies of Nike. Frequently Asked Questions
While the right wing in America worships at the corporate trough and bows to big money, there are people in this world who do fight for the children. Get the word out.
'Who Represents the Poor?' by Pranab Bardhan
"In the last few decades, labor unions have become weaker everywhere. Increased global competition is eroding the revenues that capital used to share with organized labor, and the outflow of investments abroador even the credible threat of ithas made union positions precarious.
But in much of the developing world, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have partly filled the gap by enrolling groups of (often informal) workers in microfinance and social-insurance programs, delivering health and education services, agitating against the abuse of human rights and environmental degradation, and empowering disadvantaged social groups such as women and indigenous people. Where unions stressed worker rights, the emphasis has now shifted to citizens rights to minimum dignity, livelihood, and socially guaranteed protection. This is a major advance in social movements over the narrow goals of union workers because the overwhelming majority of workers and peasants in poor countries do not belong to unions." Boston Review — Pranab Bardhan: Who Represents the Poor?
--and let's also remember that the overwhelming majority of the malnourishment the poor suffer results in obesity, not starvation....we should actually be celebrating the fact that less than 3% of the poor in this country are malnourished.
Democrats speak for children. It seems as if Republicans like to get them born to watch them starve. I know. I don't get it either.
‪Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer : "Don't feed the poor. They'll 'breed.'" FULL AUDIO‬‏ - YouTube