Jack-Booted Parenting Nazi Alert
Chuck Norris, who describes himself with panache as a "a columnist and impossible to kill," has enlisted in the kick-ass fight against the government takeover of everything. You think "Death Panels" were bad? Are you ready for "Jack-Booted Parenting Nazis"?
Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government's coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development.It's outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading "home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children." The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills.
The bill says that the government agents, "well-trained and competent staff," would "provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains ... modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices," and "skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development."
Norris wants to know:
Are we to assume the state's mediators would understand every parent's social or religious core values on parenting? Or would they teach some secular-progressive and religiously neutered version of parental values and wisdom? And if they were to consult and coach those who expect babies, would they ever decide circumstances to be not beneficial for the children and encourage abortions?
Sticking up for the poor, Norris warns that p. 840 will dispatch government agents to "identify and prioritize serving communities that are in high need of such services, especially communities with a high proportion of low-income families."
First the government came to take away your Medicare. Next, they forced child abusers to attend touchie-feelie groups. Before you knew it, they'd sentenced you to mandatory Woodstock-memory jamborees and your kids to kindergarten needle exchanges.
My question, Todd, is this the end or the beginning or the beginning of the end or (I hope) the beginning of the beginning?
Hope that's clear...
August 12, 2009 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well now, that is just sad. My daughter lives far from us, and has rather special needs. She got pregnant, had a baby, and had no knowledge of how to parent an infant. She and her new husband went to government-sponsored parenting classes and had visits by a warm, wonderful encouraging government worker to help monitor things with them and the baby. She was perhaps one kind of home health care worker, though I don't remember if she were a nurse per se.The kids just loved her, and I know she helped their family immensely. I can't say for sure which entities, state, county, or federal, ran the program, but it was wonderful. She of course, imposed no values.
August 12, 2009 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Norris is every bit as good a columnist as he is an actor.
August 12, 2009 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, Norris is "impossible to kill" except, for when Bruce Lee killed him in, Way of The Dragon (aka; Return Of The Dragon). Bruce Lee is long gone, when we could use his services once more.
August 12, 2009 12:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Norris is a jack ass of the first caliber. I won't even watch anything he is in. An egotistical Bruce Lee Wanna-Be. His carrier would be no-where if Bruce had not died.
C
August 12, 2009 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jean-Claude can totally beat Chuck.
August 12, 2009 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
That wouldn't be toobad. Just don't sentence us to watch Chuch Norris movies.
August 12, 2009 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
So the rightwing has been reduced to trotting out Chuck Norris as an 'expert' on the issue? I guess desperate times call for desperate, and futile, measures.
August 12, 2009 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
If I remember right, Hulk Hogan was an early Obama endorser. Maybe we can get him and Chuck to have a death match to decide healthcare for the country.
August 12, 2009 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's my fault, when I was a little kid I loved to watch Walker Texas Ranger, If I hadn't begged my family to watch it maybe the show would have been cancelled.
August 12, 2009 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Chuck took several too many kicks to the head.
August 13, 2009 8:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Chuck Norris doesn't wear a rain coat. Raindrops wear Chuck Norris coats because Chuck Norris doesn't do push ups. He pushes the world down.
August 13, 2009 9:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
What most annoys me about right-wingers such as Chuck Norris isn't so much their ideology as it is the highly selective way in which they apply that ideology. When Bush and the GOP passed an unfunded addition to Medicare, or launched the deficit exploding Iraq War, or when Cheney says deficits no longer matter there were no complaints from the likes of Chuck Norris.
August 13, 2009 1:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is there a #%$^$%^ christianist way to put on a diaper that I never found out about? Or a muslim way to not shake your baby when they cry? Or a hindu way to put in effing outlet covers and safety latches on the poison cabinet under the sink? I learned the secular humanist way to burp an infant, and it seems pretty damn identical to the way every other religion does it (except some members of their own abusive sects who say "put it on the floor and hit it till it stops crying").
It would be nice if this thing were kinda funny and irrelevant, but what it actually means is that Norris and his old-rightwing-white-guy pals are coming out in favor of increasing the number of babies dying in unpleasant ways.
August 13, 2009 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink