Ivanka @ RNC: Dad will "make quality child care affordable and accessible for all." OOOPS!

[Miles Archer]

President Donald Trump said just last month in a speech before Congress that he’d like to work toward affordable and accessible child care.

His daughter Ivanka told an audience this summer at the Republican National Convention that, if elected, Trump would “focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all.” She’s been evangelizing for a policy to help parents balance work and kids ever since, part of her campaign to market herself as a champion of #WomenWhoWork.

Yet on Thursday, the Trump administration sent Congress a proposed budget that cuts funding for public school programs that offer working parents, particularly low-income families, access to affordable child care.

As part of a $9 billion cut to the Department of Education, Trump’s budget would eliminate funding for 21st Century Community Learning Centers. Created in 1994 and costing about $1.1 billion annually, the centers provide before-school, after-school and summer programs for 1.6 million low-income children, primarily those of color, across the country.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-child-care-budget_us_58cafe45e4b0ec9d29da47eb?

[Kimchijeon]

1. Imagine that. ...a phony campaign promise

I am SHOCKED

[Honeycombe8]

30. It's hard to believe anyone believes that guy, any more! nt

[LakeArenal]

32. Hard to believe that anyone believed that guy ever...

[Honeycombe8]

33. That, too! nt

[cstanleytech]

37. Unfortunately there are many people that believe him and other BS about Obama still and one of them

is my brother *sigh*
Of course the biggest problem is that people like my brother would rather be told what to think and what to believe because the idea of having to do that for themselves is terrifying.

[dchill]

2. She didn't believe it when she Twote it.

[sarcasmo]

3. I think Ivanka meant to say. Dad will take away Meals on Wheels.

[Scarsdale]

21. first lady

Ivanka is fighting for help with affordable childcare for WEALTHY people. Help paying their nannies. When she is following her Daddy (is it my imagination or is he getting even UGLIER?) dispensing his medications someone has to babysit her children, so SHE needs financial help. I am starting to think she is as stupid as he is. I am certain Beavis and Butthead are dumb like Daddy.

[Honeycombe8]

31. LOL! nt

[Afromania]

4. they'd better enjoy this shit

because once it's all over they are all going to be public pariahs. I get the feeling they'll probably be shunned in the highfalutin social circles as well.

[lunatica]

17. Trump is already shunned by high society

It's part of his ego problem.

[madokie]

20. I think they pretty much already are

Who'd want to hang with that family of cretins

[not fooled]

26. Distinguished old families

don't want to associate with a bunch of grifting nouveaux riches.

And no, I'm not a fan of aristocracy other than meritocracy but old families know social-climbing filth when they see it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Jesus.

Richard Nixon vetoed government funded child care because he thought by doing so women would stay home with their kids.

Now whether or not a woman should stay home is one discussion. The financial realities of life is another. Yeah, if men earned a whole lot more there would be somewhat more women staying home. But some women really like their jobs, some women are not crazy about being home all day with young children, and some women do not have a husband (or wife in this truly wonderful era of same-sex marriage) around to support them and the kids.

In the late 1960's I was a telephone operator. This was back when only women were hired for that job. I'd say about half of us were single, the other half married, and most of the married women had children. Actually some of them were single, as in divorced, women with kids. And even the ones with husbands on site, the husbands weren't earning very much money. I wish I could recall the statistic quoted me, but keep in mind this was nearly 50 years ago, but even the ones with husbands were often earning more than their spouses. So the reality is that for a very long time, as in just about forever, women have needed to work to support themselves and their families. Genuine child care should be a lot like health care for all. It's funded. Period. You use what you need. If you are happy staying home, then great. If you're healthy, great. But if you work outside the home, if you get sick, these things are taken care of.

What was truly great about working for Ma Bell back then was that as an operator, it was shift work, and there was an amazing variety of shifts available, and usually a woman could get one that would work for her. Plus the pay was decent, especially for a woman. And the benefits were likewise decent.

[More_Cowbell]

12. "Now whether or not a woman should stay home is one discussion."

In what universe? I'd be willing to discuss whether one PARENT should stay home. But I'd like to know where the discussion is only about whether the woman should stay home.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. I'm simply showing my age.

Apologies.

[Scarsdale]

22. Work

I went to work in 1967. My husband was in the Air Force, and we had 3 kids. His paycheck was not great, so I worked to help with expenses. Most of the women were married, too, with families that I worked with. Some single girls. In MY world, women HAD to work.

[JI7]

6. Ivanka is a piece of shit just like her dad

the 3 older kids are all shit.

[Manly_Scream]

9. In conversations...

I like to refer to them as his "first litter".

[tavernier]

34. Joy called then Hans and Fritz

on the View today, saying she didn't want to pay for their trips all over the world. She may have mentioned the safaris. I don't recall exactly.

[Solly Mack]

10. Yep.

[lunatica]

18. I suspect he molested all of them

But maybe Marla kept her daughter too far away for him to get to her.

[SummerSnow]

28. he was thinking about Tiffany breast when she was a newborn .

marla did right keeping Tiffany away from him. Ivanka wasn't so lucky

[Hekate]

7. Scum. Entitled scum.

[Doodley]

8. That probably was what Trump intended, but he's a puppet and signs anything put in front of him.

[Javaman]

11. in that entire family, I believe she is the closet dem, but lives in a world of privilege and fear

under her insane father.

[Vinca]

13. Except you now won't need it because your kids will be dead from no food and healthcare.

[Tanuki]

14. Ivanka got all pissy and cut short a Cosmo interview

when the reporter asked tough questions about her dad's record vs. his claims during the campaign last summer:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/09/15/politics/ivanka-trump-cosmo-interview/index.html

....&quot Ivanka) Trump criticized the interviewer for having "a lot of negativity" in her questions.

..... the candidate's daughter bristled when interviewer Prachi Gupta asked, "In 2004, Donald Trump said that pregnancy is an inconvenient thing for a business. It's surprising to see this policy from him today. Can you talk a little about those comments, and perhaps what has changed?"

"So I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions," Ivanka Trump said, according to Cosmopolitan's transcript. "So I don't know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this, if you're going to make a comment like that."

She said the question was "an unfair characterization of his track record and his support of professional women."
(More at link)

[Lanius]

15. "Professional women" to Ivanka means wealthy white women who own businesses, not all women

who work for a living.

[Tanuki]

19. Certainly not the women who toil in her third world sweatshops,

producing the cheap designer knockoffs that Kremlin Kelly Conway touts on tv.

[Scarsdale]

23. Her kind of woman

can afford to take off any time they want to, and not lose their jobs. Not so in the REAL world.

[hatrack]

16. Fuck her and her bullshit lies, and her greenwashing, and her princessy "concerns" . . .

She can go back to her fucking condo and stack dollar bills in big piles all the live-long day and stop irritating the remainder of the planet.

Ivanka "cares" about this country in the same way that sharks "care" about sea lions.

[NewJeffCT]

24. by "all" she meant

all wealthy people.

[Initech]

27. More bullshit from the world's biggest fertilizer salesman.

[SharonAnn]

29. Primarily affects 'low-income children, primarily those of color". Interesting.

[Old Terp]

35. And we need to keep in mind that Ivanka does not pay contractors and runs with Oligarchs.

[Thrill]

36. She's like "who's this fucking idiot"

[LiberalFighter]

38. Lying must be a trait of the Drumpf family.

[Crunchy Frog]

39. He'll probably just send them into coal mines and sweatshops.

That way the program will pay for itself.

[Bengus81]

40. Trump LIED again?? Say it ain't so..............nt

[TeamPooka]

41. Every Trump is a lying con man. Even the women.

[LenaBaby61]

42. Every Trump is a lying con man. Even the women.

ALL of them grift, lie and steal, and are full of SHIT. ALL of them. I don't know anything about Tiffany.

[Maru Kitteh]

43. "Sorry girl; you're Billy Zane."

[Watalapan]

44. Ivanka

Scuk my !

[kskiska]

45. Complicit.

Says it all.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

46. What the hell does that expression on his face mean?

He seems to make that weird face a lot. Is it the "I'm about to tell a lie" face? Is that the "I have no idea what I am doing" face? Maybe a combination of both?

[haele]

47. She will tell you that before school, after school, and summer programs aren't "child care"...

so they won't count. Especially since the GOP is happy to get rid of child labor laws, and make the little criminals pay for the charitable gift of lower-class education and a free lunch by working before and after "learning time" until their parents can pick them up.

Child care is having to hire a babysitter, nanny, or maybe sending your baby or toddler to a church/synagogue pre-school while the parents and older kids go about their day making money. It's an investment to keep the parents working before the child is old enough to follow orders and join the workforce itself.
And if there's too many workers idle around, who cares what happens to the kids? With forced birth policies, there will always be an excess of labor to chose from or dispose of.

GOP plan for the working class in a nutshell.


Haele