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March 24, 2007 |

Harper’s idea of just giving money to parents to do with as they please is nothing but a shirking of responsibility as a democratically elected government to ensure that our tax dollars are spent properly. jason cherniak

It is unlikely that Cherniak is actually as dumb as this sounds. Law degree and all that. So I have to think he believes it.

In which case he pretty much underscores the difference between the Liberal and liberal conceptions of the world. For Jason the idea is that people, parents in this case, cannot be trusted to spend money wisely on their children. (I personally bought beer and, well, food, with today’s $100.00 for Max. Max likes beer.)

For us small “l” liberals the idea that government has anything whatsoever to do with raising our children is anathema. If the Feds want to send money for whatever inscrutable reason, I’ll take it; but save me from the idea that government knows anything, much less, “best” about my kids.

Jason, perhaps because he’s single and not blessed with children, seems to be under the impression that the feds and their union daycare buddies know best. It never occurs to the man to wonder if this is a paradigm to be supported or one to be questioned at its very foundation. Because that foundation is that kids do just fine without their parents. That daycare workers - well, union daycare workers - are really a positive substitute for Mum. Mum+ as it were.

The sheer implausibility of that position is what makes me wonder if Cherniak wasn’t a legacy to some poor law school. Seriously, are there people who really believe this??


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  1. Gorthos on March 28, 2007 6:24 pm

    I was a bit grumpified at the idea initially because in my mind, more daycare spaces potentially means more slack and idle unemployed parents being able to get work but upon reflection, we have no trouble getting daycare spaces.. darcare is supremely subsidized for persons unlike us who make less than 30K/annum and will cheap daycare convince an Oprah watching slug to get off their butt and get a job at the Dollar Store?

    In the end, my youngest likes it when daddy drinks rum and plays Ubisoft terrorist killing games on the ‘puter while he sleeps, so why not make him happy.

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