Military bases forced to cancel child care programs due to Trump hiring freeze

[highplainsdem]

Source: Raw Story

According to Military.com, military families with children in childhood development centers (CDC’s) at Fort Knox and U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden, Germany, have been notified that the hourly care programs are being suspend and that no new enrolees will be taken.

“Effective immediately, no new children will be enrolled in the CDC,” Fort Knox garrison commander Col. Stephen Aiton wrote in a letter to base personnel. “Also, effective 27 February 2017, the CDC will no longer accommodate childcare for our hourly care and part day families until further notice.”

The letter went on to explain, “We are prevented from bringing new caregivers on board but are still having our usual staff turnover and illnesses, which creates challenges to maintaining ratios and providing quality childcare.”

At issue is an executive order signed by newly-elected President Donald Trump halting all federal hiring, and that base commanders would need to get permission from the Army Secretary before filling any positions, including child care providers.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/military-bases-forced-to-cancel-child-care-programs-due-to-trump-hiring-freeze/

[GP6971]

1. Well, that sucks

and will probably cost Dolt votes.

[weissmam]

2. where is all the GOP bull shit

about taking care of the military now

[cstanleytech]

3. Its off season until the midterm elections in 2 years and then they will pretend to be patriotic and

care about the military and alot of village idiots will buy it hook, line and sinker.

[Midnight Writer]

10. or about protecting US jobs?

[DK504]

19. Start building the case now, printing and cutting out

articles about this sort of shit they want us to forget about in 2 years. Getting a scrap book together now will put these traitors in a bad position.

This is just what they want idiots growing up in the military and dumb as a box of rocks.

[appalachiablue]

4. K&R. So it begins, even for the Armed Forces. Fallout starts too.

[msongs]

5. Gee military you voted for him so get over it. nt

[gopiscrap]

16. Exactly!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Trump does not understand what he is doing

You can do downsizing in a private business. The store shortens hours or
drops services or can't handle your business, you go elsewhere, to other
businesses.

That's not the case with government services. They are the only provider in
many instances. All he's doing is irritating the public, the voters. This is going
to get really good by 2018.

[Crash2Parties]

15. You assume 2018 will even be as "fair" an election as 2016 was...

[Still In Wisconsin]

7. So basically support the troops, but to hell with their kids?

Sure, makes sense to me.

[Phoenix61]

8. This is what happens when you don't have EO's properly vetted.

[Doreen]

9. They are no longer fetus's so they do not matter.

[Initech]

11. Further proof that the republicans don't care about children.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. This, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with the Republicans

and their total lack of understanding the need for child care.

Richard Nixon vetoed or in some way made impossible (I honestly am forgetting the specifics and I don't feel like searching for them right now) government paid childcare for working mothers. He apparently thought that without that, the moms would stay home. As if that would magically do away with their need for childcare when they worked.

Women have always struggled. Couples have always struggled. Providing care for your children is difficult if you're not in a position to either hire full time help or to allow one partner to stay home full time. We absolutely need to understand that good childcare is fundamental to having strong families.

Military families are only a special case. All families need this.

[mopinko]

13. so of course, cut the child care. like, ya cant cut down on

landmines or somethin? jesus h slapdicky christ.
somehow i bet the commander still has guys who shine his shoes and press his pants.

[Cha]

14. How you like him now, Military? I'm sad for this.. I wish

the Military wouldn't have helped to vote the monster in.

[IronLionZion]

17. Republicans support our troops

by screwing them every chance they get. There are a lot of civilians providing support work for our military.

[Grammy23]

18. Another one of his well thought out ideas.

Actions bring consequences, some that are unintentional. That is why you vet things and try to get input from a variety of disciplines before enacting a "bright idea". But apparently this is another area where tRump thinks he knows more than "the generals" and just blundered ahead without seeking input from the ones who would know the impact of a hiring freeze.

I was a director at a large daycare (long, long ago) and the centers are subject to rules regarding ratios of caregivers/teachers to children that are monitored by licensing agencies. We had unannounced spot checks for all kinds of things like cleanliness of the facility to ratios being within the guidelines. An employee out for illness required shifting of children to ensure that we met the regulations or calling in a part-time employee to fill the vacancy.

tRump is a person who often acts on his own ill thought out impulses, many times revealing that lack of impulse control in his tweets. On the face of it, he probably thought that a hiring freeze of Federal employees made him look tough....like a BOSS. In reality, he doesn't have the skills to run a hot dog cart but he doesn't know that.