Children are the future & to cripple a fifth of our kids with poverty while forcing their families into terrible choices between childcare or food is grotesque & America can do better.
Does it, as the old African saying goes, take a village to raise a child? According to Republican Senator Ron Johnson, the answer is "no."
"I've never really felt it was society's responsibility to take care of other people's children," Johnson
said while trying to lay his hands on some of
the $403,733 that Kwik Trip's executives and employees coughed up in the last election cycle (most went to the RNC).
Johnson added that it wasn't just his philosophy that rich people's tax dollars shouldn't help children in poverty get decent nutrition or housing. He thinks if we use those tax dollars to help out struggling families it'll actually be bad for America.
Read more at
HartmannReport.com.
-Thom