Your mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers and grandchildren are on DU.

[TheKentuckian]

138. Maybe folks could worry about these people when it is policy and budget time

and dialog might well be much less coarse.

If one is actually worried about the children then they will ensure they have potable water and clean air.

That their knowledge of the diversity of life is not just interesting footnotes in a science book (if they have such things at all, least they think).

Maybe make sure when they turn the tap it doesn't catch fire.

That they are encouraged to ask questions and have the base of knowledge required to formulate them.

That they have a future besides a rat wheel of shit options, debt, and functional servitude.

That they have opportunity to earn a living not just struggle for subsistence.

That they will have a secure retirement.

Guarantee that they will be secure in their homes and effects.

Make sure they are not saddled with crushing debt for someone else's profits in foolish and patently dishonest resource wars.

Make not their inheritance rogue police forces and dragnet surveillance.

Do not pass on to them the shackles of a government that serves the wealthy and powerful but rather one that is the people empowering tool of self governance.

Give them a fair tax burden according to their benefit from the broader system.

Open their horizons rather than closing new frontiers.

Refuse to pass to another generation the sick incentives of private prisons. Remove and reverse perverse rewards for ever expanding the public ones. Cease creating worse threats to the peace and start remembering these folks will be citizens in our society again.

Leave them a land that does not know homelessness.

Let's stop creating threats to their safety by empowering drug cartels and creating desperate and zealous potential terrorist around the world, almost all in pursuit of profits wrapped up in "think of the children".

Let us leave them with access to clean abundant energy to allow them a real chance to run with the baton to the next leg.

Let's stop drowning them in debt to work at Starbucks and leaving the ones who didn't or couldn't pay in the cold.

Make sure no child goes to bed or to school hungry.

Make sure no parents have to chose between looking for and going to work and leaving their child alone in a car.

Do not deprive them of fish in the sea or bees in flowers.

Relieve them of the fears associated with affording an illness.

Try to heal broken minds rather than trying sweep them under the rug and stigmatizing them.

Remove the controlling tentacles capturing our government.

Cease pretending the greedy, delusional, bigoted, theocratic, and malicious come with the best intentions are partners with simple disagreements.

Do not allow the malignant powerful to fester and inflict worse and worse as time cycles on for political expediency and fear.

When we get to the nitty gritty I don't see much caring about grandmothers, grandfathers, dad's, moms, nieces, nephews, uncles, aunts, daughters, or sons save those of the wealthy and powerful.