“I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion!” — Maxine Waters, US House of Representatives, Democrat

cant make this stuff up…

I only wish I were kidding:

A West Michigan woman says the state is threatening her with fines and possibly jail time for babysitting her neighbors’ children.
Lisa Snyder of Middleville says her neighborhood school bus stop is right in front of her home. It arrives after her neighbors need to be at work, so she watches three of their children for 15-40 minutes until the bus comes.
The Department of Human Services received a complaint that Snyder was operating an illegal child care home. DHS contacted Snyder and told her to get licensed, stop watching her neighbors’ kids, or face the consequences.
“It’s ridiculous.” says Snyder. “We are friends helping friends!” She added that she accepts no money for babysitting. …
A DHS spokesperson would not comment on the specifics of the case but says they have no choice but to comply with state law, which is designed to protect Michigan children.
If the boot heel being ground into your face isn’t intended to save the polar bears, then it must be to protect the children.

“Nat si nah gfa raw a nalp on nama!”

Written progress reports must be issued every three to six months that track the cognitive, social, emotional, language, motor and life skill developments of infants and preschoolers.
Day-care providers must “assist” with toothbrushing after all meals, or for any children on site for four hours or more.
Nannies must devise a “curriculum” that provides “evidence that programs provide specific, planned learning experiences” and that supports “school-readiness.”
Requiring babysitters to file this paperwork, and pursuing legal action against any who fail to file it to a bureaucrat’s satisfaction will drive most of them out of business, thus creating a “DayCare” crisis which will require the formation of state-run DayCare centers, thus growing the bureaucracy, dimishing parental choice, and ultimately requiring tax increases to pay for a state service that previously was provided by private individuals.

The silver lining might be that some parents may decide they are better off raising their own children at home instead of subcontracting the most important task in a human being’s life to complete strangers.

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1200513

Am I the only whose blood pressure bumps northward on hearing liberals smugly characterize their proposals as “smart?” Particularly when reality proves beyond any shadow of doubt that they don’t have a clue what they’re doing? But, nothing daunted, they’ll make a new proposal, and characterize that one as “smart” as well.

They also don’t give us much credit by assuming that we haven’t figured out what they’re doing: oppose whatever the loyal Americans are doing, propose something else as the “smart” strategy, confident that it is impossible to disprove the counterfactual case. “Bush should have focused on bin Laden and Afghanistan, not Iraq.” We know full well that had he done so, the Reds would be howling about how stupid he was to leave Saddam in power, because that’s where he should have focused.

Their alternative tactic is to disparage what was actually done with the benefit of perfect hindsight: “Of course the Navy should have sailed from Pearl Harbor on December 6th. Any fool could see that.”)

I’m not sure which one is more irritating. The only good thing now is that they have to make those real-world, and therefore necessarily imperfect, decisions, and to accept the consequences. Even voting “present” constitutes a decision – there’s no way to duck responsibility.

They must be terrified by that thought.

30k – 30-50% for the state..
then whats remaining is taken 30-50% for state

so 30k become 15k to pay the baby sitter
and have pittance to help the family, pay for psych later, etc.

baby sitter takes most of that 15k, and watched 5 kids. after the boss and others get cuts. and all pay taxes… you get a marginal wage.

the system foments those who cheat as doing better. as cheating is the only way to move ahead.

the slavery of women in the future has been sealed as they didnt like sharing freedom with their husbands.