So, if "stay at home mom" is a working job...

[krispos42]

... (or "homemaker" or whatever the popular term is) then how about, right now, today, in time for the summer campaigning season, count all five million of them as "employed", add them to the workforce numbers, and let Obama run on a platform of creating whatever jobs the stimulus did, plus 5 million?

Anybody want to place odds on getting the Rebubes to agree to that?

[Cleita]

1. Is there money involved? Like a living wage? There should be but

I doubt the Repubs would agree to that.

[jwirr]

2. When I stayed home to take care of my disabled daughter I would have settled for any sum of

income and having some kind of credit for later social security benefits. Instead I got to be way under the poverty line both then and now.

[Cleita]

4. Yes. It would have cost the state if you weren't there.

You should have received some compensation. In a European social democratic country, you would have.

[jwirr]

7. I took care of her for 45 years and one time figured out what I was getting paid to care for her -

with the welfare they provided. $.37 an hour.

[krispos42]

9. Only in godless, anti-family communist countries like Sweden and Norway.

There are other benefits, too... godless communist anti-family benefits like free child care so the stay-at-home mom can become a working mom. The evil, it's just pure....

[RainDog]

3. In France, Belgium and other western European nations

families are paid a stipend by the state, no matter their income level, as a sort of income, or payment, for the costs of being a parent.

Of course, this nation is so far out there in rightie racist land there's no way that would happen here - but I just wanted to note that some western nations do see childcare as a form of work - though it's not included as part of employments figures, afaik.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Still, Ann Romeny is not a stay at home Mom. She's a stay at homes Mom.

Different thing.

[krispos42]

10. I think of her as more of a moms manager, really

After all, having to direct the activities of the childrearing and housekeeping staff(s) really is more management than labor.

[lunatica]

12. Think of her as the CEO and CFO of her mansions

Like Bush likes to say, it's hard werk.

[lunatica]

6. You have a twisted mind

I really like that!

[krispos42]

11. I get that a lot ;-)

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. I am going to have to create another account just to rec this again.

Well played!