There is something just wrong with people twisting concerns for women and jobs into mom-on-mom conflict.
Here is the thing: Hilary Rosen is an amazing, loving and dedicated mother to our twins. I have absolutely no doubt Ann Romney and Hilary spend most of their waking hours worrying about the same things: how to best support their children in this complicated world. They both know the most important and central issue for children is that they are loved -- and safe.
When Hilary voices concerns over women and jobs what she is really saying is that most women -- and moms especially -- worry day in and day out about how to make it all come together at the end of each day. How to make ends meet, while juggling school bags, soccer balls and healthy lunches -- not to mention the magic tricks with time to to squeeze out those precious hours to be with our children each day.
Stay-at-home moms -- and dads -- are an amazing gift to any child. And Hilary stayed at home for a couple of years when our kids were young for that reason. But almost no one can afford it. And that is what all parents have to figure out in these economic times.
Let's take off the gloves, women of America -- because this is a manufactured battle over things on which we mostly agree. And frankly, I don't want our kids to be the subject of any battle.
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Many of us were lucky enough to have had husbands/fathers for our children who were/are good providers and we were allowed the privilege to be stay at home moms and raise our own children!
Should we be punished for that! I think we shoud be congratulated for making good choices!
I commend how you and Hilary have shunted your children off to be raised by people you hire. I mean, neither one of you earns enough to be able to support the whole family so you do what is required to best provide for your family.
Documents obtained from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) via the Freedom of Information Act by a Phoenix-based non-profit, The Conquistador Program, reveal shocking and detailed plans to destroy healthy wild horses in government holding facilities as well as those still remaining in the wild on public lands.
BLM employees as well as a USDA veterinarian held weekly “Implementation Team” meetings beginning in July of 2008 in which they discussed and developed strategies aimed at ridding BLM of thousands of mustangs. In October they completed a 68 page document entitled “Alternative Management Options”. Tactics included in this document are reminiscent of those used to wipe out Native American tribes in the 1800s.
The BLM team created scenarios for killing mustangs using barbiturates, gun shots, or captive bolts. Bodies would be disposed of through rendering, burial or incineration. They discussed killing 1200-2000 wild horses per year. The document states that “the general public would be prohibited from viewing euthanasia.” Additionally, the Team felt that “increased support from public relations and management staff would also be needed to insulate those doing the actual work from the public, media and Congressional scrutiny/criticism.”
“Minutes from these meetings as well as the Draft Plan reveal what amounts to ‘the final solution’ for the American mustang,” states Ginger Kathrens, filmmaker and Volunteer Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation. “Despite a huge outcry from the American public last year regarding BLM plans to kill wild horses in holding,
I remember hearing how privileged Jackie Kennedy was--and I still liked her.
This is all to turn our national attention away from the problems that exist in our country, like JOBS and ending the war in Afghanistan.
Rosen was referring to when Mitt Romney responded twice to questions regarding women and the economy, saying he wish his wife was there to answer such questions. I believe Rosen's point, if not her wording, was a fair one.
The ultra-rich Romneys have no idea what the rest of us go through, and Mitt has made it clear that he has no interest in finding out. She's not qualified to speak about women's economic concerns. LOTS of us struggle with illness, get degrees, and raise kids, but almost NONE of us have an army of domestic servants to do all the heavy lifting or have nary a concern about paying for our health care, keeping a roof over our heads or food on the table or saving for our retirement.
http://bighomocon.blogspot.com/2012/04/hillary-rosen-sets-lesbian-rights-back.html
And Rosen wasn't attacking stay-at-home moms at all, though the campaign tells you she did so it doesn't seem like it hates or wages war on women like the rest of the Repub party. If she attacked stay-at-home moms--few of them that there are due to the fact that the majority of families require both parents working to survive--it probably would have been more like 'Hey, ARomney, why don't you stop eating bonbons and watching Dr Phil for a minute so you can actually DO something for a change.' THAT is an attack on stay-at-home moms...or maybe telling them they should defer all decisions to their spouse because they don't pull their own weight...Nothing remotely like that was said in her post. I don't want ARomney telling people what I think is important. She doesn't speak for me because she doesn't know what my life is like. Just because we're both women doesn't make us the same.