Trump's child care plan, absent of regulations or common sense- funded by Koch Family Foundations

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Disgusting! to say the least



http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/campaign/297149-trumps-child-care-plan-absent-of-regulations-or-common-sense

September 21, 2016, 07:51 pm
Trump's child care plan, absent of regulations or common sense

By Marina Dimitrijevic, Lindsay Farrell and Analilia Mejia, contributors




..............We’re pretty sure that whomever wrote this proposal has never been inside a child care center. They’ve probably never even taken care of a child. Maybe not even for an afternoon. Highly accredited centers require one trained staff person for every three infants. How are you going to trainstaff to handle more than three babies each, short of having them grow more arms? (It’s possible that the Koch brothers’ Research and Development department is looking into this -- but even so.)

When our sons first started to crawl they liked to cruise around the room at top speed. Babies sometimes bite each other, head butt each other, or instigate other small, playful attacks. When that becomes a bore, they search for the most dangerous or disgusting thing to place in their mouths, stick their fingers into or try to crawl on top of. Can you imagine what it will be like for caregivers suddenly thrust with an extra couple of babies to juggle? There’s diaper changing, there’s mealtime, and of course, there is putting them down for a nap. How does one person console all the other babies while holding our small children -- Rafael, Cole and Langston -- plus more additional children too – who could be doing any number of the attention-demanding things that babies tend to do? They are learning language skills, and social skills. How does one protect, nurture, and help develop children at a most critical stage when swamped with more children than limbs?

Trump’s proposal is based on a report released by the Independent Women’s Forum, titled Working for Women: A Modern Agenda for Improving Women’s Lives. It sounds lovely on paper, butthis group is actually not so independent. True fact: it was started years ago as “Women for Judge (Clarence) Thomas.” The group claims to be a mainstream voice for women voters but routinely attack policies popular with most women like paid sick and paid family leave, and protections for battered women. They do not speak for us or the millions of women and their families who would give an extra arm and a leg in order to secure these measures for all workers.


Dig a little and you'll find that The Independent Women’s Forum recommendations were taken from work published by George Mason University's Mercatus Center, which was founded and funded by the Koch Family Foundations. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the Charles Koch Foundation provided more than $16 million to George Mason University in 2014, much of which went to the Mercatus Center. According to award-winning investigative journalist Jane Mayer’s “Dark Money,” they are substantial direct funders of the IWF, and its related organization, the Independent Women’s Voice as well. The bottom line, there’s a lot of old conservative billionaire white guys funding these groups --- but seemingly, not a lot of women of any stripe at the helm.

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1. Thank you

Great information

Sad!