Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Solution to the Child Care Crisis? It's Closer Than You Think" video.

A few simple changes could get us back there again but the top 1-5% in business (and some private citizens) are furiously lobbying to make sure that doesn't happen.
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Fr lol.
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This is why close-knit families are so important. Unfortunately not all families live nearby or are this close. When family can't be there for each other, govt should pick up the slack and help families w their childcare needs.
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Agreed. Several factors contribute to the fact that families are more spread out or less connected than in previous eras which makes it harder for working families to easily manage childcare ... It's unfortunate.
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@blasphimus plenty of people are having kids lol. This isn't the issue.
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@fighttheevilrobots3417 that's too bad she's like that. Sounds like that makes a close relationship difficult.
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@yesimemoin0935 well you see, in families that love each other it's not about the money it's about showing that you love each other. Now I understand basic respect and consideration has to be shown, but I don't see why money should come into it. That wouldn't have been an issue in my family growing up even though we had plenty of other types of issues. I'm sorry you grew up in a family that didn't really love each other.
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@yesimemoin0935 I wasn't suggesting that, but the problem is with govt policy not people, mostly. I'm a flaming hella communist because I know nobody need live in excessive poverty. It's govts fault, not ours. I'm down with private business, but everyone should receive the material support they need in the form of govt benefits if they don't or can't get a good job. Plus healthcare ofc. And other things beyond the scope of this comment. In the meantime, if families don't work together, it's a long hard road. We gotta be there for our people. Life can be hard. It's sad when loved ones don't step up. But I know what you mean. You're not wrong.
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Wow that's so fucked up. They should be shut down on health violations. I'm sorry you have to deal with that. You may wish to anonymously contact your county health department to report them. This is a fairly serious issue. They have a legal obligation to provide a sanitary environment for these children and that's what the parents are expecting. If they're violating that, they should have to pay. It's not hard to ensure basic cleanliness in a facility.
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But free or low-cost childcare would help those who want children but aren't fortunate enough to make a six-figure income.
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Free and low-cost/affordable child care and Pre-K should be the national standard. It was once before and it never should have been taken away. But even if it never was, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be now. The priorities of where federal and most state funding goes in this country is extremely sad for anyone who has a conscience and a sense of social responsibility. There's always infinite money for oppression, locking people up for bullshit, and waging death aroaund the world, also massive handouts to Wall Street, aka the wealthiest companies and the various robber barons who are always holding us over a barrel, but there's never much for the little guy- isn't that funny?? Either people matter or they don't. So do they???? Do we???? Of course we do, but duopoly politicians say no, so where does that leave us? As always, help for the common person and the working class is rarely if ever going to come from these red-blue vampire bats, so we need new actual Left political parties and other options. There are two ways to pay for basic services for the general public; increased federal funding, which doesn't rely on taxes but Congressional appropriation (Washington DC prints and creates it's own money, that's where all the money comes from), or increases in state or local funding, which DOES rely on taxes. So where should we place these taxes? On the poor? On the middle class? Or on big business and the rich- where they belong? Well I think the answer is clear. Bottom line, unless we can get our Congressional scumbags to set aside more funding for social needs, we HAVE to get it from our counties and states- unfortunately, they don't care about us either. If they did, they would tax at the top and redistribute this money downwards as needed. So we have some choices, either we can elect better people who will care about us not just big business (which we do need to do), OR we can push for public ballot measures which call for better social services, including affordable & free childcare. These are our options; not just on this issue but on every political issue. To recap, our options for any political change are- 1) get better people elected from the Left (duopoly serves Wall Street/big $$$ and no one else, so we need something else) 2) use ballot measures to push our constructive agenda 3) use the courts- sometimes lawsuits can be helpful
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@hs5312 abortion isn't murder, not in that sense, and the US government kills more people every year, via the military industrial complex and cops running wild on the street then anyone peacefully putting to sleep non-sensing unaware early-term tissue. So there's that.
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@hs5312 @hs5312 @hs5312 abortion isn't murder, not in that sense, and the US government k ills more people every year, via the military industrial complex and cops running wild on the street then anyone peacefully putting to sleep non-sensing unaware early-term tissue. So there's that.
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