The New Slavery? part one
Thanks to The National Review for their hard work.
Here comes 20,000,000 new government jobs…………..The New Slavery.
$50,000,000 for the National Endowment for the Arts (I would like to see more art taught in public schools, I’m less concerned about supporting “starving” artist types. If this is for museums, building new or repairing old ones, then it is all good with me.)
$380,000,000 in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program (What kind of person would object to providing milk and cheese to hungry, pregnant women and their babies? Not me, I’ve been one of those women on WIC)
$300,000,000 for grants to combat violence against women ( I don’t object to protecting women, including me, from violence; but, shouldn’t we protect everybody equally?)
$2,000,000,000 for federal child-care block grants ( Child care is hard to find, good child care is next to impossible if you’re poor)
$6,000,000,000 for university building projects ( Only if it’s for building and/or updating state schools that working class and poor kids have a chance at attending.)
$15,000,000,000 for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships (Pell put my mom through school. Hopefully, it will still be around to put my kids through college. I sure can’t afford to send them.)
$4,000,000,000 for job-training programs, including $1,200,000,000 for “youths” up to the age of 24 ( It’s hard to support yourself, much less a family, if you don’t have any marketable skills. Most of us don’t have daddies who can hand us a white house.)
$1,000,000,000 for community-development block grants ( How vague. What kind of developments are we talking about? Community gardens, yay, community detention centers, not so much. We need specifics here people.)
continued tomorrow….
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