It’s like the Crack Dealer that gives away free drugs to people that have never used them, knowing that once they are hooked, they are customers for life…and usually a vastly shorter life.

This “Stimulus” money is part of the Debt Problem our Nation is facing. We cannot depend on a government that spends all our tax dollars, borrows more from unfriendly nations, and prints more money to make up for funds we don’t have.

This lunacy has to stop somewhere.

Press On, Rick Scott!

I taught public school for years, and I was never felt as if more money would improve my teaching. I didn’t need more money, I needed more time in the classroom. My desire was to provide the best education possible to the children, but the time constraints made that very difficult. There are so many special programs and government requirements placed upon schools that the teachers have very little actual class time. Thirty minutes for math and ten for language arts just doesn’t cut it! Of course we need the basic operating money, and I hate to see any teachers lose their jobs, which has been happening all over the country, but if the nonessentials are cut during this crisis, that might make up the difference. Teachers can still teach with the basics: an adequate room, adequate textbooks, and some whiteboard markers. I did . . . back when I used to have adequate teaching time. Huge cuts that cost teachers their jobs are another matter, and, of course, that is awful. I’m just saying that there are areas that could be cut that wouldn’t affect the teaching per se.

I agree that the pre-first grade programs could be cut. However, unfortunately, too many of our children are being reared by children who were reared by children with no responsible fathers in the picture. Children from those kind of families need the early learning programs just to learn basic skills such as eating with utensils, identifying colors, and speaking in complete sentences. Hillary Clinton tried to make us believe it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it may have come to that, but that was not God’s original plan. Child rearing is supposed to be the responsibility of the parents. It takes two responsible, loving, caring parents who put their child’s needs above their own to raise a child. The sad epidemic of drugs, alcohol and illicit sex – in other words SIN – causes so many children to suffer. Money is not the solution. God is.