Yes, Child Care Crisis Is Real: Mike

NY Daily News ^ | 10.28.2003 | LISA L. COLANGELO and JOANNE WASSERMAN

[from occupied ga]

What about these people taking a little responsibility for their actions? Maybe not squirting our a litter of kids if they can't care for them?

[NYC GOP Chick]

Nice to know Nurse Bloomberg is fixating on something other than smoking in bars...As if this is now our most pressing problem. The economy is down the toilet, we're still under permanent "orange alert" and *this* is where he focuses, even for a while?!

He's going to undo every good thing Giuliani did, and turn this place back into a third world village that belongs in Bangladesh.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Nah. You see, that involves actually expecting people to take some responsibility for themselves. And the wrath they bring down on those who suggest that they not whelp these kids if they can't afford the basics. I resent paying for someone else's lifestyle choices.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Unfortunately, Bloomberg is also real.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Hey, at least I didn't vote for him!

[camle]

I want MY upper middle class lifestyle!
I want MY right to have as many kids as I want!
I want My career!
I want somebody ELSE to care for my child!
I want somebody ELSE to pay for my day care
I want MY upper middle class lifestyle!
I want it ALL, and I DEMAND that YOU pay for it!

[from occupied ga]

I resent paying for someone else's lifestyle choices.

Well said. Why should the consequences for someone else's poor choices and self indulgent lifestyles fall on those of us who bust our buns and sacrifice to pay for ourselves and our families. When the county taxes me more heavily to pay for welfare for health care for the illegal hispanic immigrants who live here that means that I have less money to spend on my family.

[from occupied ga]

I resent paying for someone else's lifestyle choices.

Well said. Why should the consequences for someone else's poor choices and self indulgent lifestyles fall on those of us who bust our buns and sacrifice to pay for ourselves and our families. When the county taxes me more heavily to pay for welfare for health care for the illegal hispanic immigrants who live here that means that I have less money to spend on my family.

[kittymyrib]

Explain to us, the ignorant taxpayers, just why it is that all these women who can't afford children can expect us to take care of them. Where are the fathers? How many of these people are here illegally (note the reference to sending the children outside the US)? We can't take care of our own children if the govenment taxes us 50% of our paychecks to take care of illegitimate children living in the most expensive city in America.

[NYC GOP Chick]

SO, how long have you been a New Yorker?

[NYC GOP Chick]

Well said. Why should the consequences for someone else's poor choices and self indulgent lifestyles fall on those of us who bust our buns and sacrifice to pay for ourselves and our families. When the county taxes me more heavily to pay for welfare for health care for the illegal hispanic immigrants who live here that means that I have less money to spend on my family.

Speaking of illegals, I wonder why NYC pays so much to print up a Voter Guide every fall in English and Spanish -- and then I get another one in the mail, in Korean, due to the high number of Korean-speaking people in my ZIP code.

I thought that speaking English was a requirement of naturalization. And it just chaps my hide every time I got to vote and see the trilingual ballots. If they don't understand enough English to read a ballot and vote, then they don't belong voting.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Because they think they're entitled to it all. They don't see it as taking our money to pay for their choices, but as grabbing their own share of the "gubmint money."

There is a serious disconnect for them in that they don't seem to understand that "gubmint money" is nothing more than our money which has been confiscated by politicians pandering to these greedy bastards.

[randita]

This article has schizophrenia.

There are the cries and moans from people who can't afford daycare, then you read this:

Despite the growing outrage and the long waiting list, a recent audit found more than 2,000 slots going unused at a cost of $17 million.

And this:

The Daily News called the hotlines at the Administration for Children's Services seeking information and encountered what parents have long complained of: Phones that go unanswered. Confusing messages. Seemingly endless busy signals.

And this:

Part of the problem is the programs are a bureaucratic mess. Navigating the system can be a parent's nightmare. "It is a challenge to enroll your child in any kind of care in New York City," said City Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) "We have a hodgepodge of programs."

So, in the end, the problem isn't that the programs and funding aren't there, it's that the programs are a "hodge podge" and that the people running them are incompetent. Yet the solution recommended is to pour more money into the ill-organized programs and hire more incompetent people to manage them. Typically liberal thinking.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I didn't have a vote since I no longer live in NYC, but I was pleased Bloomberg was elected over Green. Now I really don't think it mattered much in terms of damage to the city.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Why were you pleased that he won?!

I was still fuming mad that he bought the nomination and pushed out a true, hardworking Republican -- Herman Badillo. I was pissed that he had contributed big bucks to the likes of Alsnore and was coy about whether he voted for Hitlery. He made a mockery of my party, and then reverted to his limousine liberal roots at the first sign of trouble, and raised taxes in a kneejerk reaction to fiscal trouble.

[freeangel]

"the problem is especially acute for single parents"

I am sick of paying for peoples bad decisions to have kids when they cannot afford them. Forced tubal ligations and vasectomies should be the rule for those seeking government assistance after one child.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Why were you pleased that he won?!

I was mildly pleased ONLY that he won over Green. I have never been pleased with Bloomberg or that he was representing the Republican party. I was merely trying to relate that I thought he would be slightly better than Green, and now I don't even think that.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Green never would have been able to so easily ram a 18.5% real estate tax increase down our throats. Nor would he have single-handedly crippled the bars and restaurants with his anti-smoking jihad.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Yep, I agree. As I said, at the time I thought he would be marginally better for the city than Green. I was wrong.