VIDEO: Actress Jennifer Garner: $500 Million for Toddler Care 'Not Enough'
Hollywood actress Jennifer Garner applauded President Barack Obama for already committing $500 million to federally funded education programs for "toddlers" but argued that it is "not enough."
“Last week, President Obama, such great news, he delivered on 500 million dollars for innovative early learning programs. I was proud to fight for this funding with Save the Children alongside our allies like the First Five Fund,” she said in a press conference at the Capitol.
The actress was joined by Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Mark Shriver, the Vice President of Save the Children on Wednesday.
“It’s a fabulous accomplishment but it’s only a down payment. It’s still not enough to ensure that every toddler is prepared for a lifetime of success; that’s why all of this – the passage of this bill is so important.”
Senator Casey, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has introduced both the“Prepare All Kids Act” which would help states provide at least one year of early education to children and the“Starting Early, Starting Right Act” that would give states funds to increase access to child care for low-income families.
Sen. Casey used a verse from the Apocrypha, Sirach 6:14, to describe his support for the legislation.
“There’s a great line in the scriptures about a faithful friend, it says – somewhere, I’m not sure where but it’s in the scriptures – that a faithful friend is a sturdy shelter and he who has found one has found a treasure and I think one of the questions we have to ask ourselves especially in the midst of a very tough budget, a debate about deficit and debt where we’ve cut the size – where we’ve cut spending in the federal government dramatically this year; we’re going to cut it some more,” he said at the conference.
“Will we be, those of us who have votes, those of us who have a position in a public office, will we be that faithful friend to children? We will be that sturdy shelter?”
To highlight the need for the federal government to invest in early childhood education programs, Garner, who is married to Hollywood actor Ben Affleck, told the audience about the experience she has had with her own children.
“You guys look young like maybe you don’t have preschool age kids. Well, I do, I have a child entering pre-school this fall and a child entering kindergarten and believe it or not, a huge part of why you all are successful and bright and cheerful, clean, pretty looking people is because you were able to sit in a circle when you got to kindergarten – that is kindergarten readiness,” said Garner, an Artist Ambassador for the organization Save the Children.
“It’s being able to get along with your peers, knowing what a rhyme is, my daughter, my 2 year old can spout mother goose from, you know, here to next week, that is, that comes from school.”
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I learned to read at home, before starting school
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:53pm.
Wait, her 2 year old has already been in school?? What is that, pre-pre-pre-school??? She is too busy grabbing taxpayer funds to raise her own child?
Aside from that, ever notice that, no matter how much these liberal programs get, it is always not enough, and if asked 'How much is enough?' you get a non-answer?
She's too busy raising Ben Affleck to raise her own child
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:53pm.
I must be a pop culture dinosaur, because I didn't know who this person is.
My first question was: "Who?"
After reading he quotes, my next question was: "What?"
And when I finished the article, my question was: "Why?"
I didn't know who she was
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 4:03pm.
I didn't know who she was either. She was on Fox and Friends yesterday talking about this and thought she was a Democrat operative. It seemed like she had the Dem talking points down.
Multimillionaire Jennifer
Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 4:26pm.
Multimillionaire Jennifer will be throwing in her own money to help the cause of the children in:
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Oh, nevermind!
Utter nonsense. Just because
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 8:29pm.
Utter nonsense. Just because the parents are out spending money on new rims for their cars and buying crack cocaine does not mean you and I should have to flip the bill for their offspring. Anybody who obtains government assistance seriously need to be tested for drugs and new tattoos on a monthly basis. Anytime it is found that money is being wasted on things like televisions, iPhones, jewelry, shoes, alcohol, rims, lottery tickets, etc. then they need to be cut off.
mostlymoderate
Submitted by rockyracoon on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 6:24am.
You hit a grand slam here. I couldn't agree with you more.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Except it's considered Racist
Submitted by Utherpend on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 2:27pm.
Except it's considered Racist to tell people they cant waste government money since other people do it. Hence why I see girls in the line at the grocery talking on $500 cell phones with nail treatments and designer clothes using EBT cards.
Then cash in your millions, Jennifer...
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:52pm.
...and give the money to the government for child care.
Typical Hollyweird limousine liberal--let someone else pay for it.....
The toddler years are a time
Submitted by wify on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 10:24am.
The toddler years are a time of great cognitive, emotional and social development. Toddler development refers to the changes that occur in children aged between one and three years. Thanks for your valuable time.
Regards,
discipline for toddlers
SPAM
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 10:25am.
SPAM
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
How did the generations of the past survive w/o Toddler Care?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:54pm.
?
My Momma used to lock me in the car when she went to work.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:38pm.
In fact, every car in the parking lot had at least one toddler in it. We communicated by drawing on the condensation that formed on the windows. I recall the happiest time of day was lunchtime, when I and the other fellas were let out to take a crap in the woods. In fact, to this day, I refer to 12 noon as Craptime.
We all survived, nay, thrived.
SoL
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:27pm.
And don't forget that we could fry eggs on the steel dashboards too!
LOL, Phil, yeah!
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:47pm.
Hey, BTW, were you that kid in the baby blue '62 Valiant always parked by the lightpole?
;)
No , that was ME!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:58pm.
Which one was you? We survived without ANY A/C, playdates, free govt cheese, and other welfare programs, and now we have to pay for EVERYONE else to have all that?
SoL, Phil, RightWinger---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:05pm.
Good stuff!
Made my day.
Thanks.
MD
my momma couldn't afford a
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:54pm.
my momma couldn't afford a car she went by bus. But she did put me in a reed basket and floated me in the creek. I learnt to swim and fish real good.
Typical stupid Hollywood
Submitted by rbosque on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:52pm.
Typical stupid Hollywood leftist tool.
Pay for it yourself you harpy, you can afford it!
Time to go back to one room schoollhouses...
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:02pm.
heated with an eeevil wood or coal stove. Have one for every city block.
ya dumb broad!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:20pm.
Garner, you ignorant broad! (I don't think she's a slut....but...)
How the hell did you get to where you are today without that $500 million as a toddler?
Good grief, another one bites the dust! I liked her in Alias, thought she was great in DareDevil and Electra and a couple of others. Sure glad I didn't buy those DVDs or I'd be throwing some more away.
I'm sick of these Chairman supporting actors! This makes them the epitome of STOO-PED, not just stupid!
-Jon
The problems we face are many and varied
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:24pm.
But the liberals always come up with the same answer to them all: More taxpayer money.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Invest
Submitted by Brad90956 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:29pm.
Do you notice that liberals never say, "We need to spend more money"...it's always, "We need to invest..."
When I invest in something I expect to make a profit but when the government invests taxpayers money they are just flushing it down the toilet.
My earliest recollection of the use of the word . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:59pm.
. . . invest as a synonym for tax is the first Bill Clinton Presidential campaign in '92. It's been standard Democrat practice ever since.
Yes, let's get the government's claws into kids when they are...
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:36pm.
toddlers, as that will ensure that they will graduate high school being thoroughly brainwashed, unquestioning, and compliant sheeple that will be totally dependent on government.
That is all this is about.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I heard this idiot spout
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:39pm.
I heard this idiot spout something about a poor child was 18 months behind others at the age of 4. Where did they get these BS stats?
“Starting Early, Starting Right Act” Code words for we got to indoctrinate them early.
$500 million dollars in tax
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:55pm.
$500 million dollars in tax payer funds for toddler education?!?!?!!? The same toddlers battling Chris Matthews for the drool cup? What in Hades name can they possibly be teaching?!?!?!
Hollywood has seriously lost its mind!!!
I'm amazed at how so many of these celebrity women...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:24pm.
who, after cranking out a kid or two, suddenly believe themselves to be "experts" on every aspect of childcare and education. Garner is a perfect example of this, and the libnuts in D.C. are only too happy to recruit these Hollyweird dimbulbs as mouthpieces for their various liberal pet projects and legislation.
Personally, I wish Garner, and her equally insipid husband, Ben Affleck, would stick to their Hollywood careers (such as they are), and leave serious matters like how much taxpayer money is spent on which program, to the grownups, who have a few more neurons and a lot more common sense. Most of these celebrities are woefully ignorant about the issues on which they expound, and I wish that they would kindly shut up, unless and until they know what they are talking about.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Most of this crap is coming
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:02pm.
Most of this crap is coming not from educators but rather psychologist. It based on the work of Pavlov and his salivating dogs. Another is Howard Gardner and his multiple intelligences.
Howard Gardner's work around multiple intelligences has had a profound impact on thinking and practice in education - especially in the United States.
Add in some John Dewey and his progressive education and viola you have a dumbed down populace that will do what they are told to do.
Shake in some T Berry Brazleton on early edcuation and you see they must get them young before the parents get to them. (10 times worst than Dr. Spock.)
I could go on and on but you can see where education took a turn to indoctrination.
Let me try to communicate
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:27pm.
to MS Garner in the parlance of today's youts'.
STFUYSFB!
Seconded and bumped!
Submitted by nomadMike on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 9:19pm.
.
You have to wonder why
Submitted by katiejane on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:07pm.
liberals continue to have babies since it seems like they don't want to be bothered by doing any actual parenting themselves. Generations of children lived without pre-school and somehow got prepared for school by their parents.
What part of there is no
Submitted by Semus on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:13pm.
What part of there is no money left does she not understand? I have an idea, some hard choices have to be made by all of us and it seems like now is the time and this will give almost everyone a warm fuzzy feeling, except of course those selfish people who want to keep the fruits of their labors we'll know how to deal with them. Anyway a committee with impeccable integrity, and compassion will be appointed to decide how much wealth people need, this will be subtracted from what people have, the difference collected and distributed until we've achieved social justice, with some exceptions. Anyone who complains will be declared an evil, selfish, racist, enemy of the people, and yes Jennifer will think they're mean too. Of course some examples will have to be made, attempts to reeducate, and more severe measures will be necessary on rare occasions but why quibble they're evil and no one likes them. If some people did happen to like them eventually they'd be too afraid to say anything. It will be as though they never existed, and then we'll have a heaven on earth utopia.
The End
Please forgive the poor writing a work in progress
Let me get this straigth
Submitted by octavioj on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:49pm.
So now society is completely in charge of taking care of all toddlers in America? I must be reading this wrong. Where is parental responsibility? Where is individual responsibility? Where is individual compassion? Abdication of these most basic responsibilities will cause society to collapse.
No, no,
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:05pm.
Hillary explained it all to Ms. Garner and her wife, er husband, "it takes a village" to raise your child. She certainly can't be bothered, that's why government must take money from workers, so that the do-nothings can crank out kids, and someone else will be responsible for them.
These people watch "Logan's
Submitted by HockeyKid on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:15pm.
These people watch "Logan's Run" and root for Logan to get caught.
For a starkly real portrayal of what these people favor, read the book and see how children are raised. These "early start" programs are eerily similar.
BTW, Bennifer, your children won't give a rat's ass about how many schools you bought for them. They'll care about how much time you spent (or didn't spend) with them. Don't be surprised when they grow up like so many teenage train wrecks in Hollyweird. Want a truly fulfilling experience? Teach your own kids how to read by READING TO THEM. What a novel concept, eh?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
I hate to get in the way of a
Submitted by balboa on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:01pm.
I hate to get in the way of a good pile on, but... does anyone actually know what the money would be for, or have any previously obtained knowledge of Garner's intelligence?
Where does it
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:07pm.
say that the federal government should be involved in child care? Or pre-school?
'smatter, bal?
Submitted by HockeyKid on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:17pm.
You can't read?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
I read over the linked
Submitted by balboa on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:27pm.
I read over the linked article that gave some rationale and what the program _specifically_ was. This didn't seem to be nearly as horrible an idea as everyone is making it out to be, the usual "NANNY STATE! STUPID ACTRESS!" reaction notwithstanding.
Typical.... The government
Submitted by Liberallies on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:44pm.
Typical....
The government can survive with the millions of Affleck, Garner, Oprah and other Hollywood millionares.
the progrma seems, on the surface, http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6146405/k.C7E9/Abo..., a good program for children facing poverity.
but the question is, why does it need tax money from Americans at a time that our economy is doing so bad?
yes, hollywood actress who refuses to make her own economic sacrifices and wants others to make the economic sacrifices she is unwilling ot make herself. Oh wait, maybe she is, instead of buying a $5000 dress, this year she will buy a $2000 dress, right?
Make money, be a millionare, but do not ask others, like the Liberal wealthy constantly do, to make sacrifices you are unwilling ot make first.
this program can run very well and probably much better without government money and government intervention.
Eliminate all government "donations"
Submitted by dasher on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:54pm.
The government should not be in the business of making charitable donations. Not to Save The Children, not to Planned Parenthood, not to any organization whether well intentioned or not.
OK, fine
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:55pm.
So you believe it is not as bad as everyone is making it out to be. Fine. Like everyone else you are entitled to an opinion. So here's mine:
With a budget deficit in excess of $1 trillion is this really the best time -- or way -- to be spending a half billion dollars?
And spare me the "it's such a small sum does it really matter" argument. Yes. It does matter. In my opinion, the first rule of holes applies here.
Not to mention the valid argument that this is not something in which the federal government needs to be involved.
Well that's another question.
Submitted by balboa on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:59pm.
Well that's another question. Should the government be spending so much money on it? Probably not, but that's not Garner's fault. She's trying to further her cause, as are millions of people out there for all kinds of programs.
But, celebrities are easy targets, this fits in nicely with the NANNY STATE mantra, so voila.
No, this fits well with the,
Submitted by Liberallies on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 4:19pm.
No, this fits well with the, "I am a Liberal gizzillionare. I am also married to one!!!", "However, I am asking the tax payers to make the money sacrifices for my program which I am not ready or willing to make myself!!"
Are you seriously this dense Balboa? Her millions and Affleck's alone can make this program run. Affleck is best friends with Matt Damon and countless of other Hollywood gizzillionares, why do they need our tax money to run this program?!
To me is not so much about the Nanny State, wh ich is not a mantra but a reality, to me is the typical Hollywood elite, gizzillionare who demands tax money for her pet cause instead of asking her gizzillionare friends to make the sacrifices and donate to her pet cause.
It is wrong and immoral to ask for tax money for your pet program when it can survive with your gizzilliones and that of your family and very close friends.
this is the problem with Jennifer Garner, not her pet cause and program which seem very worthy, but with asking for tax money at a time that truly, there is none and when she, her husband and their buddies can make a few million dollar sacrifices.
Not Garner's fault
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:12pm.
Never said that it is. Didn't even imply it. I'm not arguing against this because another Hollywood liberal supports it. Celebrity has nothing to do with my opposition. In the vernacular, for me it's all about the Benjamins.
"...celebrities are easy targets...."
Non sequitur. Everyone who has posted against this would be just as opposed whether or not any so-called celebrity was involved.
By the way, cute dismissal of people's concerns about overreaching government by characterizing it as "the NANNY STATE mantra."
I could likewise characterize Garner's statement about $500 million not being "enough" as just the BIG GOVERNMENT mantra. See how easy it is?
Model850
Submitted by balboa on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:14pm.
I should have said that a lot of my post was referencing the angry posts of others on this thread, not yours.
And I enjoy using the NANNY STATE because it seems that's the automatic default position for some on any issue where the government is being asked to fund something, with or without considering it's worth. "Nanny state! Socialism! Other buzzword!"
The fact, bal---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:17pm.
that you cannot assimilate the reasoning behind the phrase "NANNY STATE! STUPID ACTRESS!" is pretty much explanatory.
It explains how a worthless pos Socialist fool ended up in the Oval Office.
"Liberal. Something to be when the real world kicks your ass and you need a place to hide out from reality."
MD
Matthewdean, Well said. But
Submitted by Liberallies on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:22pm.
Matthewdean,
Well said. But I guarantee you that Balboa, along with countless of Liberals, will be the first one crying and screaming when the Nanny government takes away what it has given them. Just look at Greece, at Portugal, at Ireland, at Spain. The same Left wingers who made fun of Conservatives in these countries about the "Nanny State mantra" are now the first ones in line wanting to overthrow the nanny state when the nanny state says, "no babies, you can't have any more freebees. The nanny state is telling you no more retiring at 55. No more money for your healthcare"etc.
It is easier to mock that which you clearly do not understand or wish to ignore.
Ok, Jen, wife of Ben..
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:05pm.
Use some of yours and his money, and get your libtard friends, and give til it hurts, or theres nothing left! WTF is she talking about that its "not enough?"
Exactly
Submitted by Brad90956 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:07pm.
Take your millions, your husband's millions, all your lib friends' millions and hold a PRIVATE FUNDRAISER.
“It’s being able to get along
Submitted by Ruths husband Ben on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:11pm.
“It’s being able to get along with your peers, knowing what a rhyme is, my daughter, my 2 year old can spout mother goose from, you know, here to next week, that is, that comes from school.”
Her two year old is in school? Mine were with their mother at that age and they could all read and write before they went into school, too. Just saying.
I have never understood why
Submitted by Liberallies on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:15pm.
I have never understood why these Hollywood multi-millionares don't donate their millions upon millions in order to help the people. Why don't Ben Affleck and Garner live on a salary of $100,000 each, so a household income of $200,000 and donate the rest of their Hollywood salaries to the causes they want?
Why do they want that I and the vast majority of americans, who make much, much, MUCH less millions than them to pay for ridiculous government programs?
Nothing wrong with being filthy rich and good for Affleck and Garner for being filthy rich, but instead of begging for government money, Hollywood, clueless, limousine driving elites need to come to the real world where we the Middle Class are taxed up to our necks in order to support programs that woud barely make a dent on the millions, upon millions that the Hollywood elite make.
and thrwoing money to education, as it has always been proven, is NEVER the solution. Good teachers, dedicated teachers and great parenting is what education need, not more money.
But if you have a cause, support it with yoru own millions upon millions of dollars, Garner, not with my few tens of thousands.
And, interestingly,
Submitted by HockeyKid on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:22pm.
survey after survey shows that conservatives give more money to charity than liberals, and that smaller income families tend to give more than larger. So wealthy libs are the least likely to be putting their money where their mouths are.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Hockey Kid, Exactly Liberals
Submitted by Liberallies on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:37pm.
Hockey Kid,
Exactly Liberals love to have pet causes which they want you and I to pay for.
Conservatives also have pet causes, but we pay for it out of our own pocket.
The difference? Liberals believe that other's people money belongs to them and they force people to support the causes which they believe in, regardless of our income or what we believe in.
Sadly, too many Liberals believe in sympathy and helping others as long as it does not affect them.
There is a study which I read a few days ago showing that the current 18 to 29 year olds in the USA are THE least sympathetic, the least empathetic group of Americans that have lived since the USA's beginnings. It is quite scary what the implications of this finding. And I believe it is already showing in our society. Selfish brats who put themselves first, but in order to look good, they force others to believe like they do and to support their pet projects.
I bet if you confront them on
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 4:07pm.
I bet if you confront them on how much money they give it would be below the Al Gore giving line. They'd probably tell you they gave their name and time to such and such.
What a moron! Another
Submitted by pepperoniprince on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:22pm.
What a moron! Another Hollyweirdo whose movies I need never watch again. Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, JohnTravolta,...
I had to go to the IMDb to
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 4:12pm.
I had to go to the IMDb to find what movies she made. Except for the 10 minutes of Juno I watched I have never seen anything she was in.
Write a check, Jen.
Submitted by richflanj on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:38pm.
Nothing, ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING, is stopping you from selling your mansion and moving into a middle-class, median-income house, emptying your bank accounts, and writing a check for all of that money to the US gov't.
Until you do that, STFU.
Nicholas
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:42pm.
I found both links in your article to be broken.
The first one (500 million dollars) contains an extra " http//" (with the leading space).
The second one returns an error for me: "The system cannot find the path specified."
“It’s a fabulous
Submitted by Reaver on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 4:45pm.
“It’s a fabulous accomplishment but it’s only a down payment.”
What a liberal says whenever they succeed in separating people from some of their money. Thanks for summing it up so succinctly Jennifer.
Activist?
Submitted by jerzeepeg on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:09pm.
This Hollywood dingbat is now being referred to as an "activist". Good lord, our nation is doomed.
OK, I have a question...
Submitted by TeachertT on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:58pm.
Did this used to be called "Head Start"? Back when I taught school in the early 90's I was always filling out questionaires, at the end of each year, about the students who had attended Head Start as pre-schoolers. I was always surprised as to who is was who went to Head Start. If attending Head Start was suppose to give them a leg up, I sure didn't see any results of it in 1st grade. Every single one was still behind their peers. I taught in an large metro area school district with all the usual problems.
The older I get the less wool covers my eyes.
Who listens to these people?
Submitted by Herbster on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:05pm.
................another genius heard from.....!
Wait till the toddlers grow
Submitted by MightyMouth on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:08pm.
Wait till the toddlers grow up and realize THEY got stuck with the bills for all this crap!
500 million or 500 trillion
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:24pm.
500 million or 500 trillion would still never be enough. We're always one tax hike away or one government program away from a liberal utopia. It will not end until America resembles Cuba or North Korea.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James MadisonNever enough
Submitted by Unsane on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 8:49pm.
And, as we ALL know, the laws of economics simply do not apply to education. We could plunge the entire GDP of the United States into education and Miss Garner and her fellow travelers would still scream "It's not enough..."
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Leave Jennifer Garner alone.
Submitted by Superman on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 3:44am.
Jennifer Garner is fighting to get money to help educate children. And you guys bash her for it? Come on. That ain't right.
That seems familiar
Submitted by sentry_99 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 6:31am.
Is this you?
Superman---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 9:20pm.
instead of worrying about a dorkette like Garner, how about you hie your super-powered home state ass up to Sacramento and straighten out the REAL problems in the "Golden" State.
Unless, of course, berating those who berate bimbos is the extent of your super powers.
:o)
MD
No
Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 9:52pm.
Why do the laws of economics not apply to the world of education?
We could sink the entire damned GDP of this country into education and not one outcome will change.
Not to mention we are also "bashing" her because she should be setting the example. This is a charitable country. She could set up a foundation with her own money for this cause. If she were to do so, there would be no end of singing her praises.
But no. Instead she goes to DC to whine about how the government isn't doing enough and how it needs to spend yet more money.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
That assumes she hasn't done
Submitted by balboa on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 9:58pm.
That assumes she hasn't done something already or donated money. (I don't know if she has or not.)
And it seems she's not asking to just throw money at "education." it's for a very specific program.
That is precisely what the Feds do, bal---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 10:40pm.
they throw money at a problem.
Historically, it has never worked.
What makes you think the government record would somehow improve because a liberal, "caring celebrity", proposed aiming the socialist scattergun at a specific target (program)?
Dream on.
MD
Never? Never helped in any
Submitted by balboa on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 11:42pm.
Never? Never helped in any way?
bal---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 2:48am.
Department of Education - meh.
US Postal Service - meh, meh.
US Border Patrol - meh, meh, meh.
Amtrak - meh, meh, meh, meh.
I won't list the outstanding organization headed by Janet Incompetano Napolitano that frisks people at airports cuz I would run out of mehs.
Welfare - doled out locally, yes, but a government handout, nonetheless. Oh, that has worked out well, hasn't it?
Not too mention the seemingly limitless programs funded by the Feds which are completely outdated but are still receiving monies that come from good ol' taxes.
Now maybe you consider the 2 billion dollars per annum to Pakistan to be a means of insuring that their nukes won't end up in terrorist hands (if the Pakistanis were cut off from those funds), but I see that as a fool's errand and an enabler's gambit.
The G.I. Bill for educating returning soldiers would be a shining example of good, if it weren't more than canceled out by the shoddy conditions found at VA hospitals nationwide and the concomitant treatment some of our wounded warriors receive.
So, whatcha got on the plus side of the ledger, there, bal?
MD
Matthewdean, but that is
Submitted by Liberallies on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 3:54pm.
Matthewdean,
but that is just it. either Liberals like Balboa are willful ignorant individuals who are clueless how terrible government services are, as you pointed out or they could careless.
I have been involved in very heated arguments with Liberals who swear up and down that the government will do it better. Of course, I then ask them why they donate to non-for-profits and private charities instead of the government they stare at me, clueless, like deer stares at headlights.
Why Liberals trust government so much when it has proven to care nothing about the individual or the society is beyond reason.
Killing vs babying
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:22am.
Considering the track record of public "education" in the United States alone, THAT should be enough to give us ALL pause when we think of trusting government with a "service" that doesn't , in the end, involve killing people. Because when you get right down to it, what the government does best is killing people.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Well...
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:19am.
I don't know if she has or not either, and if she has, that is laudable. If she was encouraging people to give of their own volition to her cause, that too is laudable.
When she starts whining for the government to become the United Way and to throw money at this "problem", it ceases to be laudable.
This very specific program she is trumpeting is an educational program, is it not? There is nothing that government loves to do more than to simply throw money at education. Sadly, there are WAY too many people who think that throwing more and more and more money at education SOLVES EVERYTHING.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
"Save the children!" From WHAT?!?!?
Submitted by Diesel on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 6:17am.
I'll tell you what....LIBS!
Are we supposed to give them to the government at birth?
Submitted by nkviking75 on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 12:06am.
Heck, from now on when you have a baby, let's just let some government stooge raise it until it's 18. Babies don't need no stinkin' parents. I guess they're afraid a little parental influence might interfere with their indoctrination.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.