THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume IX, Issue # 95, May 24, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
"HILLARY YOUTH CORPS" IN THE MAKING
By Christopher G. Adamo
CHILD CARE & REARING, THE POLICY AGENDA OF THE POLITICAL LEFT, & THE LOSS OF PERSONAL FREEDOMS OF
AMERICANS:
LEFTWING LIBERAL STATISTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLAN FOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL & DIRECTION OF THE
NURSERY -- HILLARY CLINTON'S GRIM ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT STATUS OF PARENTING -- HER ADVOCACY OF
GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN CHILD CARE & REARING -- WHAT ALL OF THIS INDICATES: POWER-GRABBING
BUREAUCRATS ARE STILL ON THE PROWL, AWAITNG ANY OPPORTUNITY TO INTERVENE INTO & MICROMANAGE THE
LIVES OF THE PEOPLE
FULL STORY:
The newest “crisis” being contrived by the Hillary Clinton camp has to do with the supposed need for government to
assume control over child care, since moms and pops, friends and neighbors, and the local privately owned daycare
centers are all obviously doing such a lousy job of it. No doubt, the people who bring you the U.S. Post Office and
state Departments of Motor Vehicles can do better.
In truth, none of this is new, but just another facade covering the same old agenda of the political Left. Convince people
that they are in dire straits financially and othewise, and then promise to fix everything for them, if only they will sacrifice
to the cause their freedoms and, ultimately, their good sense.
Hillary Clinton’s grim assessment of the current status of parenting, combined with her utopian promises of how it will all
work once she is in control, represent the latest iteration of the old tricks from the Left. The “village,” by which she
means power-grabbing bureaucrats, are still on the prowl, awaiting any opportunity to intervene in peoples’ lives. As
with federalized “health care,” it is all about Democratic Party Liberal Statists gaining power to micromanage the lives of
the people.
Those wanting a “heads up” as to how this governmental child-rearing monstrosity could take hold, and eventually
metastasize, need only to watch how it has been implemented in several consistently disastrous state ventures.
Wyoming, in particular, is in the early stages of heading down this dark road, but the chicanery and deceit employed thus
far should serve as a warning to the rest of the nation.
Plans for state control of the nursery first burst upon the Wyoming political scene in 2006, with HB92, the euphemistically
named “Quality Child Care” Act being ramrodded through the “Republican” legislature with disturbing ease. Nancy
Freudenthal, wife of Democratic Governor Dave Freudenthal, took an activist roll in forcing the bill through the political
process, even appearing at committee hearings in what once would have been roundly condemned as a conflict of interest
anywhere outside of Arkansas.
Though overwhelmingly “Republican” on paper, Wyoming’s political apparatus has, for many years, been dominated by
Leftwing Liberals in both major parties. Thus the state’s budget continues to bloat, annual calls for school “reform”
merely amount to lavish increases in funding, and virtually every problem is addressed through monetary outlays and new
programs.
Meanwhile, even the most rudimentary laws protecting innocent life and reaffirming marriage stand no chance of ever
being enacted.
In this atmosphere, it has been relatively easy for unbridled Socialism, such as “Quality Child Care,” to be foisted upon an
unsuspecting populace. While still very Conservative and traditional in their views and mores, many among Wyoming’s
citizenry do not remain sufficiently engaged in the political process to anticipate looming threats such as this current
government power grab.
Fortunately, once the bill mandating an initial study and providing funding was passed last year, Governor Freudenthal
made a strategic miscalculation by appointing Becky Vandeberghe, a registered lobbyist and pro-family Christian
grassroots political activist, to the study committee. Clearly, Freudenthal was attempting to throw a few crumbs to his
opposition in order to buy them off (a technique at which he has proven to be quite skilled). Yet all indications are that he
grossly underestimated Vandeberghe.
Her attendance at the study committee meetings revealed several alarming aspects of the situation, as well as a corrupt and
self-serving political machine which seeks to ingratiate itself to the state power structure by greasing the skids toward
implementation. And the specifics of the intended plan are more alarming still.
Overwhelmingly Liberal, the committee and its advocates in the legislture were careful to put a benign face on its longterm
goals. But they clearly intend to define “the hand that rocks the cradle.”
Behind closed doors, committee members revealed a grand scheme to expand the scope of the program, through the
implementation of “standards” by which to raise the bar on daycare centers, thus ensuring that smaller private providers
would eventually be excluded. Ultimately, this would facilitate their implementation of universal preschool.
When queried directly by Vandeberghe about the intrusion of government into what has long been respected as the realm
of family, one committee member responded with the question: “Who better to raise our children than the government?”
Amid intense opposition from individuals and organizations who feared a government takeover of every childcare facility
in the state, reassurances were given that the real intention was only to subsidize those individuals who could not afford
the expense of placing their children in such facilities.
Yet, this is only one of many veneers being placed on this program in order for it to gain public acceptance. The latest
attempt is to couch the whole thing under the heading of “economic development,” a term which usually plays well in
Wyoming, where a low population and limited industrial base leave many of its entepreneurs scrambling for ways in
which to expand the business community.
All diversionary excuses aside, the scope and expense of Wyoming’s latest foray into “Hillary Care” in the nursery
promises to grow to nightmarish proportions. And, as Becky Vandeberghe has consistently found in her research on the
topic, no educational benefits for the children have resulted elsewhere in the country where similar programs were
implemented.
Of course, this does not mean that they will be cancelled. Rather, the dismal reality of their inadequacy will be used as
the catalyst by which to demand ever increased funding. Once a bureaucracy of this nature is established, it is all but
impossible to ever be rid of it.
So, as the former First Lady turned U.S. Senator turned presidential candidate seeks to draw us all into her web of
governmental assistance and dependence just in time for the 2008 presidential election season, it would be good to
consider what her real motives are.
On its face, her phony concern over children and childcare is as transparent as her professed lifelong devotion to the
New York Yankees. So for this ruse to work, she will require the kind of support she is currently receiving from
Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal.
Global warming alarmists step aside! Hillary and her minions have their own pending catastrophe from which she will
save us.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Children & Youth -- Policy Issues
Education & America's Schools
A Practical Guide to Homeschooling
Marriage, Family, & Society
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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