Strong Marriages
What keeps a marriage together? What makes a strong marriage? These are timeless questions and the answers to them are numerous and varied from couple to couple. Thank God we have Sen. Brownback to help us with these answers. What creates a strong marriage....money.
Congress is considering a plan by Kansas Senator Sam Brownback to pay low-income couples in the nation's capital to get married.
Brownback heads a Senate subcommittee in charge of the budget ofWashington, D.C., where more than half of all children are raised bysingle parents.
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His plan would give single parents an incentive to marry, offering qualified couples up to nine-thousand dollars to buy a home, start a business or begin a college fund.
As the Carpetbagger notes....what a strange turn of events.
Mr. Cheney also echoed Mr. Bush's contention that Mr. Gore's tax cut plan, which would provide relief for those putting money into savings accounts, college tuition, child care and other specific purposes, would serve as a form of social engineering.
"If you live your life the way they want you to live your life, if you do, in fact, behave in a certain way, then you qualify for a tax credit," he said.
What I'm trying to point out here isn't the divide between Republicans and Democrats, its that for all the blustering rhetoric and for all the 'differences' between the parties, they are the same. EXACTLY the same. Republicans believe in spending money, just on different things than Democrats. Pay to play is rampant in both parties, its just the lobbyists who are different (sometimes). Ideological extremism is rampant, just with different goals. Social engineering? Thats bad, unless its to engineer the family we think is right. Women should have the right to choose? Absolutely, and you are wrong if you think that right should not be exercised after a certain time period.
If it was ever time for a third party...a viable one...its now. The political center of this country is becoming larger and larger and the Democrats and Republicans are busy backing up into their ideological corners, as far away as possible from each other.
posted by Katinula | 12:32 PM
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For structural reasons, a viable third party in the United States will not happen. There will be, at most, three parties for a breif period of time and one of the three will quickly fade into irrellevance.
There is of course still a strong limited government wing of the Republican party. We have found (unsurprisingly to most) that the lure of pork overcomes that pretty consistantly in our elected representatives. There is of course the wing of the Republican party that has never really cared for limited government at all. Social Conservatives, as you rightly point out are not particularly interested in limited government, at least not as long as they control the reigns of power.
The more the Democratic Party declines, the greater this split in the Republican party could become, eventually resulting in a third party. However, one of those three parties would soon disappear because our system will naturally assume equilibrium on two parties.
Studies have shown that if a person does three things in their life, they most likely will not be "poor".
Graduate High School
Don't marry until at least twenty years of age
Marry before having children.
This is not a report from the Cato Institute, but from Bill Galston, a former Clinton advisor.
The facts show that if these things are done, a dramatically lowered chance of poverty exists.
I don't think the government has any business paying people however.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_1_why_we.html
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