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Comments on: Passing the Plate https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:53:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Mustang Bobby https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/comment-page-1/#comment-20767 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:34:23 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/#comment-20767 “Invest in Children?” Are they kidding? As Fran Liebowitz once noted, “Children are rarely in a position to lend you an interesting sum of money.”

But seriously folks… Bryan nails it. We suck here in Florida in terms of child care, including Jeb Bush appointing a Christofascist who believed corporal punishment was the Hand of God as the head of the Department of Children and Families.

Yeesh.

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/comment-page-1/#comment-20746 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:01:22 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/#comment-20746 If y’all had clicked on the “Beneficiary” link you would have seen it goes to the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, an agency of the state of Florida. Just are schools get a major portion of their funding from the state lottery, the juvenile justice system get funded by vanity license plates.

And people think the property tax system is screwed up, the entire non-system for funding public services in the state are screwed up.

Those kids are safer on an island than in one of the “boot camps” that were finally closed after another death.

]]> By: cookiejill https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/comment-page-1/#comment-20745 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:37:47 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/#comment-20745 Why are the children stranded on an island?

]]> By: ellroon https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/comment-page-1/#comment-20744 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:30:35 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/#comment-20744 Apparently investing in children means sending them to work in the palm groves. And is the little child sitting going to get beaned by a coconut or is he refusing to assist the other two in getting food? Why are they on an island?

Why does picking coconuts on a sinking island with no housing and no parental supervision indicate investment of the future? Why didn’t they show books and other icons of education? …. I’m so confused.

]]> By: Karen https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/comment-page-1/#comment-20742 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:16:02 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/#comment-20742 Invest in Children — Oh, I DO…I DO! Costly little beggars they are TOO! *smile* Gonna get WORSE before it gets better…College looms! 🙂

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/comment-page-1/#comment-20739 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:38:43 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/02/25/passing-the-plate-40/#comment-20739 Is this the “Sarcasm Day” plate? Given that Florida rates near the bottom in every category of investing in children… hmm.

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