Please include 24/7 child care every time you mention health care..

[C......N......C]

Both cases would improve the quality of life, improve the USA and let the USA compete with foreign labor rates. It would spur the economy on the very basic level by freeing up money for the low and middle income.

[babylonsister]

1. Why have kids if you want someone else to watch them 24/7?

Maybe I'm not understanding, but this makes no sense to me.

That's like saying we should all have heart monitors at our disposal 24/7 in case we might have a heart attack.

[marshall]

7. Wouldn't just giving them up for adoption accomplish the same thing?

If one wants to contribute to the gene pool but not take care of the children at all just give them up for adoption. Or better yet donate to a sperm or egg bank.

[notadmblnd]

8. You know, I've had this idea of a 24 hour babysitting service

My only problem is that one wouldn't be able to release children to parents that have been drinking alcohol. So, I've been trying to figure out a plan on how to make it work.

[C......N......C]

10. Some people work night shift and afternoon shift and weekends

and holidays. Why is this being scrutinized from the negative side?

[billyoc]

2. Please start choking every time you say that.

COMPETE WITH FOREIGN LABOR RATES?!!

[napi21]

3. I disagree completely! I don't have a problem with being able to deduct childcare

payments from your tax liability, but not the general public paying for it.

[sandnsea]

4. We do pay for it though

There are lots of child care programs for low income moms to work and/or go to school. I wish we'd quit charging people to go to school for $10 hr jobs. That would help more than anything. We created a whole new education industry for jobs that used to be learned on the job, that really serves to put the lowest income people further in debt and not much more.

[peace13]

6. How is the general public not paying for it in your scenario?

The Treasury forfeiting the tax dollars equals subsidized childcare.

[BooScout]

5. Why should my tax dollars pay for your child care???

If you want to have children then you pay for them.......don't expect me to pay for their care.

What an incredibly stupid idea.

[C......N......C]

11. I don't have any children

but your tax dollars already pay for streets and schools and hospitals and wall street bailouts and bank bailouts, Why not help the children of working people.

[LiberalPersona]

12. Everyone uses streets, schools, and hospitals

Not everyone has children.

[BooScout]

13. Exactly n/t

[Belial]

9. We already pay a HUGE chunk of their childcare.. its

called Public Education...

[The2ndWheel]

14. Basically a kid farm

All the talk about education and where to place the blame has had me thinking of a way to make everyone happy. The first thing you do, is take away the parent/child relationship. If you leave that up to chance, the kid might not have a chance. People can donate sperm and eggs if they wish(and be paid nicely for it), they just can't have children. So the adults of society are free to do what they do, and the children are raised in some sort of institution. It's all paid for in taxes obviously. That way, every child is given the same environment to grow up in, you can have school 12 months a year(with breaks when the child needs them), and the teachers and other education and child experts are able to form a system of learning around each child. There would be no rush to teach this or that, there would be plenty of time. So the adults aren't able to blame the teachers for education, since they're not parents, and the only time they ever meet the children is in 18-22(or more) years, and they're now adults anyway. The children don't hear one thing from their teachers, and possibly a completely different thing from their parents, and they all start from the same place. The teachers are able to do what they think they need to do to create future productive citizens of society.

Adults are able to live in an adult world. Teachers are able to teach what they need to teach. Children are able to learn what they need to learn. I'd say every problem is solved there. Alright, there might be a few issues, but, for the most part...