The right is sticking it to the kids ("family values" any?)

[Muse]

Paul Krugman (Nobel laureate and frequent writer at The New York Times) published an article in The Times the other day concerning the Republican right's abandonment of America's impoverished children. The comments as well as the article were excellent.

Opinion | America Betrays Its Children Again (Published 2023)

Soaring child poverty was a political choice that’s not just cruel but also economically self-destructive.

www.nytimes.com

If you can't get past the paywall for the above link, this one will for 2 weeks, i.e. until Oct. 2, 2023:

Opinion | America Betrays Its Children Again (Published 2023)

Soaring child poverty was a political choice that’s not just cruel but also economically self-destructive.

www.nytimes.com

And this:

A Big New Report on American Children Is Out. It’s Horrific.

“Protect the children” is a popular modern rallying cry. If only.

slate.com

 

[dainthomas]

Obviously once they're born, they're just mooches who need to get their job at the meat packing plant ASAP.

 

[nakedfrog]

They need to be protected from being exposed to anything other than traditional 1950s-era white conservative culture values. That's... well, that's about it.

 

[woolfe9998]

More examples of GOP policy choices not protecting children.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/02/us/amethyst-silva-us-gun-deaths-gdpr/index.html

In Texas (of course) a family goes outside to their front yard to celebrate New Years Eve. Right at midnight, a person or persons in the neighborhood starts firing off a gun, likely in celebration of New Years. A stray bullet hits and kills their 11 year old daughter,

Who fires guns in a residential neighborhood to celebrate? Idiotic, drunk rednecks. That's who. Who supports having zero restrictions on gun ownership and carry? The same idiotic, drunk rednecks who can't be trusted with their firearms.