Posted by
Conservative2008 on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:04:02 PM
I have been a critic of the ongoing doling out of Tennessee funds to
the so called welfare to work program and finally my words are coming
true. WATE TV 6 in Knoxville reports that the Bredesen administration wants to make child-care more expensive for people who work and pay their way.
People
who are on the public dole receive a child-care stipend, in times past
recipients have been required to pay the difference between the stipend
and the daycare rates. That will change if the Bredesen spend spend
spend administration has their way. WATE reports:
The
state gives a stipend to day care centers for every child whose family
is on assistance. Until now, day cares have been able to charge these
families the difference between the cost of the day care and the
stipend. But now, the state says day cares must absorb the cost or make
up the difference elsewhere.
The last sentence
tells it all. What do the people in Nashville think? That these
daycares will take a loss? Hell No!! They will raise prices on others
who actually pay their way. This will cause stress and strain on
already struggling families.
A time is coming when we no longer
need to give handouts and force people to get out and provide for
themselves instead of depending on the sweat of others to pay your way.
As I was preparing this I noticed Bill Hobbs also opined on this issue as well. He states:
It's
also bad social policy. Even families on welfare ought to have to pay
some small part of the cost, in order that they bear some of the
responsibility for this important part of taking care of their
children. Totally free day care simply increases the welfare families'
dependence on government and decreases their motivation to get off the
government dole - which, in turn, feeds the generational cycle of
poverty that includes the high likelihood that their children will
eventually grow up to have their own children dependent on government.
Fewer
day care slots, higher prices, increased dependence on government,
decreased reliance on self. Brought to you by Tennessee's Democrat
administration - who are busy right now on plans to take more of your
tax dollars to fund an expansion of the state's new state-funded day
care system, also known as universal "Pre-K." But I'm sure the latter
has nothing to do with the former.