Child care cuts have hidden costs
Cariboo Press / Houston Today
March 7, 2007
Federal government turning back the clock of social progress
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The federal government started 2007 by asking daycare providers and parents to suck it up.

Starting this year, the cost of sending my son to pre-school will require a student loan and little did I know the loans would pile up before university started.

I now will join many other parents as they line up at the banks, in order to send their children to pre-school.

No wonder MLAs are asking for a raise, it is probably to cover the costs of childcare. We should have known something was up, it seems that each time they ask for more money it coincides with us having to pay more money. I would ask them to take a real look at what their cutbacks have done, although they could not make it here with the way they have let our highways get.

I can only speculate on the millions of dollars these recent cutbacks will save. At least when our unemployment rate jumps through the roof they will have some extra cash to pay for income assistance and unemployment. If a person cannot pay the higher costs of child care, some may be forced to quit their jobs. I hope the government will think of this as they help countless daycares close their doors, creating even more unemployment.

Hopefully during this reduction, the government is planning to raise the minimum wage rate or have thought of the many people that will be looking into cheaper childcare. Cheaper childcare means fewer uneducated workers, fewer uneducated workers means a higher probability of accidents in the childcare homes -- hence a rush to the clogged up hospitals....

Cutting one area creates a debt in another area. Reducing funding for our childcare is going to up costs everywhere else. Therefore, we will be forced to suck it up once again. Of course, we have no one to blame but ourselves for having elected these idiots.

Our federal government is not running our country, they are ruining it.