When a teacher catches two kids passing notes back and forth, he/she does not send the whole class to detention study hall. Only the two kids who broke the rules are punished.
If a supervisor finds out that three employees have called in sick so they can go play golf, the three employees get disciplined or fired, not the whole unit where they work. It is a matter of fair treatment.
Investigations are uncovering fraud in welfare programs that help pay for child care. It is not fair to cut off federal funding for child care in all 50 states as a result. The temporary suspension of funding to the offending states or counties involved is justified until the offenders are caught and punished. It is reasonable and fair.
I usually agree with President Trump. Not this time. Poor people sometimes do not actively seek employment because the jobs they have the skills for do not pay enough to offset the cost of child care. They actually can get more money every month from public assistance programs and getting their medical expenses paid for by Medicaid than they can by going to work. Sometimes help with child care can enable the poor to afford gainful employment.
By threatening to withhold
federal funds for child care programs in all 50 states, President Trump is
overreacting. Let’s not “throw the baby
out with the bathwater.”
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