In a February 9 column entitled Voters will recall who wasn't standing with them, Kamloops This Week journalist Dale Bass described Tuesday's child care protests in Kamloops. She named a few of the people who were there in support: Mayor Terry Lake, city councillors Tina Lange, Jim Harker and Arjun Singh, school trustee Dick Dickens, and a representative for local MLA and provincial cabinet minister Kevin Krueger.
"We're talking about that most basic of human emotions," wrote Bass, "caring for our children." And when the federal election comes, she predicted, voters will "remember who wasn't there."
Cited column by Dale Bass
Published February 9, 2007
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You know who wasnt there?
All the parents who decided its more important to stay home and raise a child than make money, and who never received a cent from government.
All those kids who have been abused in instiitutionalized day care.
All those who dont want to suck up to the Taliban style press in this city
Lake and others would support anything they thought would get them a vote, whether they believe in it or not. Why doesnt Bass actually research the outrageous results of national daycare in Australia and other places?
Okay, Australia you can have. Can you name one other real example?
Did Michael Crawford or Ken Sommerfeld attend either?
Exactly.
Ummm ... yeah actually Michael Crawford was there. And Ken Sommerfeld isn't the Liberal candidate yet.
Dale Bass is right. Voters will remember who wasnt there and for them because there are a lot of people who believe that a government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have. Why is it so proper and just for my tax dollars to subsidize daycare for a teacher and logger couple who make $100,000 a year togethor? Where is the incentive for the parent who stays at home in those critical first four years? When they planned for kids did they say:
we can afford it as long as we both work and whine and cry for the government to give us daycare money?
Cuba is often cited as an example of national day care program (97% of children involved) that is successful. However, the teachers are paid $10 to $14 . Each day the children start off singing or are taught to sing "Pioneers of Communism...we shall be like Che"
If you think kids are screwed up now, let the government raise them!
As Paul Simon sang:
"...when I thing back to all the things I learned in high school..
it's a wonder I can think at all.."
I may have the words not totally correct but you get the idea.
What does any of this have to do with the fact that there is a problem with childcare in this country? Whether you agree with its existence or not, it does exist and is being underfunded by the people who took on the job of funding it in the first place. Research other countries all you want but that does absolutely nothing to address the very real problem that exists today in this country. Quit complaining that subsidized daycare exists, because it's a reality. Do something to make it work instead.
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