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   Corosive Frog said, about 1 year ago

   Better sorry than safe?

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   motivemagus said, about 1 year ago

   Good point, but the counterargument is not that the state should raise the kids, but to provide opportunities for kids other than jail. I support public schools as the basis for an informed citizenry, but it is also an effective means to prevent far more expensive problems farther down the line through early intervention. Head Start (for example) really helped disadvantaged kids come up to the norm – right until Bush started hacking at it.
   If we believe that America is a meritocracy rather than a government by the wealthy, we should give potentially valuable citizens a chance. If Bush and McCain hadn’t come from privileged families, would they have been as successful as they are? I doubt it. Bush would be in jail for drunken revelry, and McCain might have been thrown in jail for having his temper blow once too often and trigger PTSD (which I suspect he has anyway).

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   Corosive Frog said, about 1 year ago

   It’s the parents responsability, but the least the government can do is to help them.

   Some kids just don’t have parents. They have genitors that are either on drugs or in jail.

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   rikoshayrabbit said, about 1 year ago

   The American government was sold to the Federal Reserve in 1913. This action entrenched all Americans into slavery. Schools are government-sanctioned and create compliant, unquestioning idiot sheep. The many generations that have been shaped in these idiot factories have created a nation of more than 300,000,000 people who have switched places with the servants. Our government servants are now are masters. So many irresponsible idiots must have jails to be kept in, and now America has more jailed citizens per capita then any other country in the world. This was planned carefully, thoughtfully. America is the land of the fee, the home of behave.

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   agm3 said, about 1 year ago

   PUT/KEEP IN JAIL. THEY WANNA BE BAD-WE’LL SHOW THEM BAD!
   PARENTS? WAAAAAAaaa!
   you can’t do the time; don’t do the crime!

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   jimbo90036 said, about 1 year ago

   Outcome a redistribution of income since Reagan. Growth in profits have far outpaced a growth in income by Americans, excepting those at the top.

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   FarWestGirl said, about 1 year ago

   Since the R’s destroyed the unions and have downsized and exported most of the decent-paying manufacturing jobs, the parents are often working 2 or 3 part time jobs to make ends meet. Up front investment in education is less expensive and pays off bigger dividends than punitive action after the fact. Fact.