"...MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry considers the unborn child a “thing” which takes a “lot of money” to “turn into a human,” costing thousands of dollars to care for each year of his/her life. Now it appears that Harris-Perry thinks that, after they’re born, children fundamentally belong to the state.
"Narrating a new MSNBC “Lean Forward” spot, the Tulane professor laments that we in America “haven’t had a very collective notion that these are our children.” “[W]e have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to their communities,” Harris-Perry argued."
While I think it is true that our children are a national resource and the future of our nation for good or evil, the import of Obama-thinkers' social philosophies can be scary to contemplate. I fear the consequences if Harris-Perry's outlook translates into government control.
MSNBC's expected outlook "Of course, if as Harris-Perry holds,"[t]he cost to raise a child [is] $10,000 a year up to $20,000 a year," and if children should be viewed as collectively "owned" by "society," then taken to its logical extension, a woman's choices about having a child should be informed by the economic considerations of the "community," would it not? But of course, that logic would take someone to justify, for example, the "one-child" policy in Communist China.
"What's more, the notion of collective responsibility for children was a philosophy that undergirded the Cultural Revolution in Communist China under Chairman Mao. I bring that up because, as you may recall, another Harris-Perry "Lean Forward" spot contains a reference to a "great leap forward," which calls to mind the disastrous agricultural reform plan which starved millions of Chinese to death in the 1950s."
Update: If Politicians Are Stupid and Corrupt, Why Should We Let Them Run Our Lives? Mayor Bloomberg ironically asks:
If government wants to raise our children, they will be brought up by nincompoops. Which leads us to our next post...
"What's more, the notion of collective responsibility for children was a philosophy that undergirded the Cultural Revolution in Communist China under Chairman Mao. I bring that up because, as you may recall, another Harris-Perry "Lean Forward" spot contains a reference to a "great leap forward," which calls to mind the disastrous agricultural reform plan which starved millions of Chinese to death in the 1950s."
Update: If Politicians Are Stupid and Corrupt, Why Should We Let Them Run Our Lives? Mayor Bloomberg ironically asks:
“And yet these are the ones we keep re-electing. You’ve got to ask yourself why.”
If government wants to raise our children, they will be brought up by nincompoops. Which leads us to our next post...
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