Feminists Are Waging War On Family Finances

Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen, exemplifying mainstream media’s pervasive bias, unleashed a firestorm recently. Ms. Rosen ridiculed Mitt Romney’s wife regarding the economic literacy of stay-at-home mothers; contemptuously dismissing Ann Romney for “never having worked a day in her life.”

Many mothers managing family finances implicitly understand economics better than political strategists or government bureaucrats. Housewives engage markets constantly. Ludwig von Mises noted of inflation, the “housewife knows much more about price changes as far as they affect her own household than the statistical averages can tell.”

The myriad advantages of full time motherhood extend far beyond finance, but there are substantial economic benefits too. Work costs money, from transportation and wardrobe to the cascading cost of dining out frequently. Unless a second salary far exceeds daycare expenditures, couples may fare better with one breadwinner and frugal budgeting.

Some families have insufficient means for a spouse to stay home but wish they could. Others can afford acceptable care. How parents navigate such crucial decisions remains their choice alone, but that some mothers sacrifice material abundance is apparently threatening to women who perhaps take motherhood less seriously.

Rosen’s condescension reflects a recurring assault on Republican women. Last election, Sarah Palin suffered ferocious abuse, but her self-made success would be lauded by feminists were they honest, or had Palin been a Democrat. The 2004 campaign witnessed Teresa Kerry level similar “has she ever had a real job” invective at Laura Bush.

Women today have plentiful options, but apparently all must pick per feminist mantra. Don’t choose life in Palin’s case or support husbands like Romney and Bush. Defying the politically correct image of knuckle-dragging men waging the Republicans; perceived War on Women; once again feminists smeared homemakers for making what is an individual, personal choice.

The misogynist attacks on Gov. Palin in 2008 were from MITT ROMNEY and his backstabbing TEAM.

FLASHBACK:

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts
in some polls, days prior to Election 2008.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney and
TeamROMNEY and the RNME (Republican National Media Establishment)
decided …to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008.

Romney, and the Van der Sloot RNME RINOs for Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

Two-parent families are so old-fashioned.

Single Parent Statistics

Births to unmarried women constituted 36 percent of all births in 2004, reaching a record high of nearly 1.5 million births. Over half of births to women in their early twenties and nearly 30 percent of births to women ages 25-29 were to unmarried women
"America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being, 2006" www.childstats.gov
Along with the number of births to unmarried women, the birth rate for unmarried women rose in 2004. The 2004 rate of 46 births per 1,000 unmarried women ages 15-44 matches the historic high reported a decade earlier, in 1994
"America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being, 2006" www.childstats.gov
Between 1980 and 1994, the birth rate for unmarried women ages 15-44 increased from 29 to 46 per 1,000. Between 1995 and 2003, the rate has fluctuated little, ranging from 43 to 45 per1,000
"America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being, 2006" www.childstats.gov
In 1995, nearly six of 10 children living with mothers only were near the poverty line. About 45 percent of children raised by divorced mothers and 69 percent by never-married mothers lived in or near poverty, which was $13,003 for a family of three in 1998.
Census Brief CENBR/97-1, Bureau of the Census www.census.gov, September 1997.
75% of children/adolescents in chemical dependency hospitals are from single-parent families.
(Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA)
More than one half of all youths incarcerated for criminal acts lived in one-parent families when they were children.
(Children's Defense Fund)
63% of suicides are individuals from single parent families
(FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - Investigative Aid)
75% of teenage pregnancies are adolescents from single parent homes
(Children in need: Investment Strategies...Committee for Economic Development)

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