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Sorry, but most of you are full of crap. You need to get past your nutty ideology and use some freaking common sense for once. I look at the world as a business person. You can either focus on the short term or the long term. Short term profits put cash in your pocket, but it can destroy you in the long term (look at Walmart right now, or any number of companies driven by short term profit) OR you can build your business and reinvest, to make sure that you have something sustainable.
Communities are really no different, and that's all she's saying. If we want an educated workforce that can compete on a global basis, create innovative technology and build jobs in this country, and if we want safe communities, we need to ALL buy in to making sure that our schools are good and that we invest in our youth. Of course parents are individually responsible for their children, but they can't change the big picture items like education on their own--that's up to all of us together.
If you're calling taking a longer term view of building strong communities and an educated workforce a "brown shirt" move, then you have more problems than I can address on a message board. And for the record--Harris NEVER said a word about collective child rearing. You need to stop reading nutty blogs that distort information--you'd actually be able to talk about facts vs. ranting hysterically.
It does take a community to raise a child. It takes a community that takes safety, good schools, engaged communities, and environments of learning to help people do better in life. I thought everyone (right or left) was pretty well agreed on that.
If you don't like things like that...well, I don't understand. If you want to raise your kid in unsafe areas with apathetic communities where the schools are terrible, I guess you can find that if you want. I would love to see people's faces when you tell them that.
Conservatives have ALWAYS agreed with that position--that is until the crazy train started driving the "new" republicans.
And you know what conservatives think because you are a liberal and thus omnipotent?
Conservatives have never thought this. If you knew what conservatives knew, you would not be a liberal.
You tend to function in extremist right crazy land, so I hardly think you're the standard for what a "conservative" is. You know nothing about what it takes to actually "build" something like a business. As for the rest, I grew up in a conservative family, my family has worked and held office in republican politics, and I voted that way until the rise of the teavangelicals. I've registered as an independent since then. I'm still a common sense, small business oriented conservative. Unfortunately, that's a whole lot different than being a republican these days.
Conservatives have ALWAYS agreed with that position--that is until the crazy train started driving the "new" republicans.
Of course they have. How many times have we heard someone on that side fondly remember the "good old days" when everyone in a neighborhood looked out for all the kids? Now , because someone they love to hate advocates that very thing it is somehow "communism."
And many of the same people are in that other thread applauding the plan to deprive families of their benefits if kids do poorly in school. Because that so respects the sanctity of the family.
Riiight.
Of course they have. How many times have we heard someone on that side fondly remember the "good old days" when everyone in a neighborhood looked out for all the kids? Now , because someone they love to hate advocates that very thing it is somehow "communism."
And many of the same people are in that other thread applauding the plan to deprive families of their benefits if kids do poorly in school. Because that so respects the sanctity of the family.
Riiight.
In the absence of a child's parents, it is certainly acceptable for a neighbor to keep an eye out for the children of the neighborhood. That is not saying that the kids belong to the community.
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You need to get past your nutty ideology and use some freaking common sense for once. I look at the world as a business person. You can either focus on the short term or the long term. Short term profits put cash in your pocket, but it can destroy you in the long term (look at Walmart right now, or any number of companies driven by short term profit) OR you can build your business and reinvest, to make sure that you have something sustainable.
You know nothing about what it takes to actually "build" something like a business. As for the rest, I grew up in a conservative family, my family has worked and held office in republican politics, and I voted that way until the rise of the teavangelicals. I've registered as an independent since then. I'm still a common sense, small business oriented conservative. Unfortunately, that's a whole lot different than being a republican these days. 