I can't stand hearing the Chicago parents asking what they are supposed to do with their children

[jberryhill]

105. Yes, that is correct

Which is why I believe in a society that cares for children.

It takes more workers to support a social security recipient than my two children from my first marriage, and the three whom I decline to call "stepchildren" with whom I was blessed in my second marriage, given that one is disabled.

The weirdness here is what you are reading into the simple statement that other people's children are going to be paying for your social security and medicare.

Your teabagger reflex is to take that as some kind of insult, instead of what it is intended to be - a reminder that WHETHER YOU HAVE CHILDREN OR NOT, YOU HAVE A STAKE IN THE NEXT GENERATION.

That's part of what America is about.

Absolutely, I intend to be doing the same thing you will be doing. It is the same thing we will all be doing, and it binds our collective interest in the education and care of children - not MY children or THEIR children, but AMERICA'S CHILDREN.