Political Quotes

“parents at every economic level sometimes must balance the demands of being a good parent with being a good employee. This is especially challenging when it is a minimum-wage job with no health insurance and a single parent. This partisan bill focuses solely on the work aspect, forgetting the value of parenting, not only for our children, who lose irreplaceable opportunities, but for communities, who suffer and bear the burden of neglected children having children of their own and committing adult crimes. When asked how much of an investment in our children is required to satisfy the new requirements of this new law, the Bush administration responds basically, ``don't know and don't care.'' But the Republican Congressional Budget Office was forced to estimate this cost of meeting our children's child care needs. It says, at a minimum, $8 billion is required, while the House Republican leadership provides only $1 billion. Additionally, this bill provides nothing, zero, zip--to meet rising child care costs, to transform the frequently poor quality of child care from what is too often unskilled, minimum wage workers baby-sitting our children into what should be early educational opportunities so that the children can hope for a better future than that of their parents.”