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In reply to the discussion: I can't stand hearing the Chicago parents asking what they are supposed to do with their children [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)65. I can't stand the idea that those kids will pay your social security and medicare
Do have the courtesy not to burden them when you are older.
Okay?
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I can't stand hearing the Chicago parents asking what they are supposed to do with their children [View all]
RB TexLa
Sep 2012
OP
I was making the point that we all pay for stuff we don't want to pay for. n/t
cynatnite
Sep 2012
#123
Oh, okay. Right. We spend most of our lives contributing to things we don't want to.
valerief
Sep 2012
#128
Indeed. Blame the system, not the parents or teachers. Now that's a THIRD WAY I can cosign onto!!!
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#115
There is no show. You think we should have to pay for people's lifestyle choices?
RB TexLa
Sep 2012
#11
You pay for other people's lifestyle choices all the time. What's different now? n/t
cynatnite
Sep 2012
#59
Truthfully, I hope those being educated right now will keep things going for the rest of us.
Hoyt
Sep 2012
#23
I understand, my paying for people on it now isn't good enough. If I don't make more people to pay
RB TexLa
Sep 2012
#87
It's not the day care aspect. It's the gangs and the shootings and all the other mayhem they are
dkf
Sep 2012
#32
You can blame the education deformers for the gang violence problems. *They're* the ones
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#36
Turf issues -- selective enrollment/charter schools close neighborhood schools, move kids all over
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#51
The people I saw were getting into twin BMWs saying they didn't know what they were going to do with
RB TexLa
Sep 2012
#66
just because cnn & the lame-ass media focus on parents who say that doesn't mean it's the norm.
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#18
Thank you for correcting the obvious propaganda we will be hearing ad nauseum.
woo me with science
Sep 2012
#19
You shoulda heard the honking horns and seen the thumbs up all over Chicago this morning
alcibiades_mystery
Sep 2012
#28
Yeah, so what if they can't afford daycare. Who cares if they only make minimum wage.
cynatnite
Sep 2012
#44
"We believe we're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own."
Incitatus
Sep 2012
#47
I hope these kids don't grow up and decide keeping you alive is a too expensive a lifestyle choice
tritsofme
Sep 2012
#61
I can't stand the idea that those kids will pay your social security and medicare
jberryhill
Sep 2012
#65
I pay into that as well I'm not a participant in that because I'm not a "hard working family?"
RB TexLa
Sep 2012
#67
I understand that. If your children should die before you are on it, will you give up your benefits
RB TexLa
Sep 2012
#88
No, I do not want her dead. But you liked pointing out that children would be paying my SS
RB TexLa
Sep 2012
#98
It's just their way of making clear that they don't give a shit about schools so long as they have..
JVS
Sep 2012
#113
They feel that a deal has been busted, and that they have been hung out to dry.
slackmaster
Sep 2012
#124