Re: 10 Things Marina Needs: A Meme

rhileman — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:15:53 -0000

I only get one result and it is a link to a website titled:

"Washington Interns Gone Bad"

Somehow that seems disturbingly appropriate.

Re: It’s the End of the Word As We Know It

rhileman — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:17:23 -0000

Way to take a proactive approach there.

*ducks*

Re: Stay-At-Home Mothers Aren’t Worth It

rhileman — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:01:21 -0000

I support the idea of compensating stay at home moms, providing we as a society get to establish performance metrics, evaluate them on an ongoing basis against those metrics, pay them according to their performance and fire them for repeated poor performance.

If a woman is a stay at home mom and doing an amazing job of it (I know a couple women in that category) then I would say she is providing a tangible benefit to society (as I suspect her children are more likely to be productive members of society).

I honestly can't think of any value that someone brings to society which I hold higher than "Being an extraordinary parent", I've known a few in my life and every one of their children went on to do amazing and interesting things, and contributed immensely to society.

Is writing a new program or creating a new website better? I think it would be a hard argument to make.

However, it is unfortunate that very few parents reach the marker of "Extraordinary" (hence the label) and it is well demonstrated that poor parenting often results in offspring with negative and costly (both to them and society) behaviors.

As long as it was voluntary (i.e. you would have to request benefits under the program), I'd love to see some government money tied to improving the quality of parenting in this country.

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