You mean the same education system that is currently broken?
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Well said. I think we probably grew up around the same time and have watched the politicians drive this country into the ditch. The overriding problem is simple. Washington has built a country to expensive to live in. We have the 7th highest cost of living among all countries. People rail about wages in China for example. I see numbers ranging from 1500-4200 per month. However cost of living is 75% less meaning 6000+/mo. equivalent. Healthcare and retirement is paid for and rents and housing 50% less. Manufacturing was the one place where the āDā student could earn a respectable income. Still that way in China but not here. You practically need to be an engineer to work in many manufacturing jobs here. Other industries are never coming back. We have built a very difficult situation that will be equally difficult to resolve. Your best pointā¦donāt have kids if you donāt have the ability to pay for them. My parents never got tax credits. My school taxes were $6k/yr. before I sold it. Depressing. Best wishes.
We already have government funded day careāHead Start. However, studies show it is not an effective program with any long-lasting outcome.
Our public school operates the local Head Start for three reasons: for additional funds to use elsewhere for other purposes; to inflate their student counts; and to get a foot-in-the-door of homes with preschoolers as young as 3 years of age. They send social workers for intrusive āhome visitsā to āadviseā parents on how to raise their childrenāwithout discipline.
The last thing we need is government raising children.
If you accept that logic, then you must also disband social security, medicare and medicaid entirely. Those are programs paid for by those young and employed. It is an inter-generational wealth transfer imposed by government fiat. Why should the young pay the expenses of the aged?
The answer is because it is morally right to do so. Is our system perfect? Hell no! It is way off the rails. It makes up the largest expenditure in our national budget (I think itās even greater than defense). As the boomers die off the burden will decrease, of course; but the rates of inter-generational transfer were set. They need to be re-examined. Solutions that do not rely on government enforced transfer of wealth must be sought. Put the onus back on the economy; make businesses fund retirement programs that allow individual choice by directing funds and take the power away from politicians because people will always vote to take from their fellow citizens for their own benefit.
FWIW: Iām older than the boomers, born before WWII. I receive those benefits, but Iām honest enough to examine and criticize their intent and effects.
From your mouth to Godās ears.
The federal govt SHOULD only control national security (Shawnās war and protecting the border), diplomacy, and interstate commerce with a court system that adjudicates matters of law. In practice the federal govt intervenes in every aspect of American life. If only we could force the federal govt into such a box . . .
The only way to constain the federal government is amend the US Constitution; yet almost no one talks about it. They lament situations and want to pass laws to change them which is tantamount to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic after the iceberg collision. Those sapient men who founded our nation and wrote our constitution were well aware that government is the enemy of all those rights they so carefully enumerated in the document and those first 10 amendments to it. History over the past 250 years - especially the last 115 years - have proved them right. The American people, like frogs in water whose temperature increases until they are boiled to death, have ignored what the founders taught. They have traded limited - often petty - changes for being able to ignore the hard work of holding government in check.
The problem IS GOVERNMENT! Unless and until Americans wake up to the fact that they are being coerced by minority opinions adopted and enhanced by power-hungry politicians and bureaucrats, they will continue to be oppressed, lose God-given rights, and lose their liberties and properties.
Each of the 3 branches of our government need severe realignment of their powers. We should be debating which are the most important changes to make, not which laws we want those in government to change. More laws only deepen the legal morass and breed swamp denizens.