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opiate69

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4. Couldn't agree more..

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 16, 2012, 12:24 AM

Apr 2012

The older I get, the more I realize my ideology can probably be best described as "Scandinavian Socialist", and a large part of that is the value they put on the working class and families. Education, Wages, health care, family leave, medical leave, etc. Far and away better than the "go to school, amass crushing debt, gain employment which will nominally pay off said debt, work til you're too old to enjoy retirement, then die" model we seem to have here.

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What is your opinion on stay at home parents? [View all] Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 OP

I think that lots of people- of both genders- who don't have kids, simply don't get it. Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #1

I think it's a very hard, usually under-appreciated life choice. opiate69 Apr 2012 #2

Absolutely. The choices, if you can call them that, available to the rapidly vanishing middle class Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #3

Couldn't agree more.. opiate69 Apr 2012 #4

wife stays home loli phabay Jul 2012 #15

Hardest job in the world tech_smythe Apr 2012 #5

I've done both too. Prefer staying at home. It is better in every way, even with a disabled child. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2012 #6

The Ann Romney flap is a red herring ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #7

Of course it's a red herring. And of course the point Hillary Rosen was making was ECONOMIC. Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #8

please forgive my intrusion into your group Tumbulu Apr 2012 #9

I can't speak for the entire group, but I like to think that this place welcomes diverse voices Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #10

good post and interesting thread. Whisp Jul 2012 #16

Exactly. lumberjack_jeff Jul 2012 #17

Stay at home parents should get a FAT Soc. Sec Bonus tech_smythe Apr 2012 #11

I like your thought (nt) Tumbulu Apr 2012 #14

With my wife starting her own business Broderick Apr 2012 #12

I agree with everything you've written.. I won't judge the choices people make, be that to both work Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #13