Happy Mother’s Day
To my mother, my wife (mother of four), my oldest daughter (a widowed single mother) and my youngest daughter (a mother-to-be) I wish ya’all the happiest of Mothers’ Day.
It’s really hard to politicize a day like today, but of course, the Left can do it at the drop of a hat. So I thought I’d join in, too.Â
Code Pink is doing it today. Using the Mother’s Day theme, they’ll be in front of the White House demanding an end to the war in the name of mothers. I went last year, but I think I’ll avoid it this year. Mostly because I have trouble being near true hypocrits.
There was a group of women last year holding a giant banner that proclaimed “Mothers Against the War”. When I asked them how many were actually mothers, out of the eight, there was only one – the other seven happily pointed at her as if she gave the banner (and the group) some credibility. When IÂ asked her if she had a child in the military, at first she answered that yes, she did. I said “Really?” She answered sheepishly that she didn’t. So, what the banner should have really said was “Grotesque, barren old bags against the war”.
A guy approached me with his three-year-old daughter on his shoulders and screamed “Do you want to send her[his daughter]Â to war?” I answered that I’d spent twenty years in the Army, that my son is in the Air Force and (at the time) my niece was on her way to Iraq in the Army Reserves – and that her Marine husband had already done a tour over there. I added that my family had done more to secure his daughter’s future than he would ever do. He shuffled away speechless. So that was enough for me -Â the Park Police escorted me from Lafayette Park
The good old Washington Post takes an opportunity to politicize the day, too. Somehow, we should all be excited that motherhood can be subsidized by the government. In an oddly titled piece called Pushing the Motherhood Cause (as if motherhood needed it’s cause pushed), they trumpet an organization that purports to support “a motherhood agenda”;
They are an outgrowth of MomsRising.org, founded a year ago to bring mothers together as a force for change in public policies that affect their everyday lives.
More than 90,000 people have registered, galvanizing around six main issues: family leave, flex time, health insurance, child care, fair wages and children’s activities, such as better after-school programs. Their proposals are not new, but together they create a “motherhood” agenda that has attracted a fresh enthusiasm.
“They have struck a nerve, or maybe they have just sharpened the debate,” said Love, 37, who said her generation of friends is consumed by the tug between work and family. “Literally, these issues are all we ever talk about.”
Of course, their first legislative victory was getting paid family leave passed in Washington State. What an accomplishment – government-subsidized sloth. An unfunded mandate on employers, another enticement for mothers to abandon their families to government child-care facilities. Another burden on taxpayers which will induce even more mothers to abandon their families just to pay the tax increase and the increased cost to employers.
Maybe if more mothers stayed home and raised their families in the first place, there wouldn’t be need to inflict their personal problems on the rest of society.
But the Washington Post decides to give us a blow-by-blow of an activist mothers’ party of former Georgetown University grad students;
The United States lags behind most of the world, the narrator said, and its lack of benefits puts it in a class with several third-world nations, a statistic based on a Harvard University study.
Several women gasped.
The film said the No. 1 reason highly paid women leave the workforce is to spend time with their families. It went on with stories about child-care problems and family health-care calamities.
Funny how the US lags behind the rest of the world in every Leftist activist cause, but we have the strongest, most resilient economy in the world, isn’t it? I wonder if there’s a correlation there.
And of course women leave the workforce to be mothers and spend time with their families – what the Hell is wrong with that? Of course, what’s wrong with it is that it makes the hairy-legged, Leftist man-haters feel guilty about their empty lives.
Of course, there was no surprise when I read;
MomsRising stands out for its working-mother focus and also as an example of new-style, online community organizing. Co-founder Joan Blades also helped launch the liberal group MoveOn.org.
Leave it to the Washington Post to glamorize liberal, absent-parenthood – on Mothers’ Day.
