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KTOG · 07-07-2005, 07:05 AM

Also here is some back story and a non-bias remove on the book:

[quote:f8d1e]I live in this man's balliwick and I can tell you, he is not only crazy, he's a liar. He (actually, it's his wife) homeschools their (many) kids in comfort in his expensive home in VA, then allows the Bethel Park, PA school district they "live" in to pay upwards of $80,000 for his kids school fees, since they "attend" its online homeschool forum? He still hasn't paid that debt back and only admitted to it when forced to, when asked by a local reporter for the local PPG newspaper. Look it up folks, those are facts.

And the "home" he and his large family "live" in when he's here? A very small, 2 bedroom, 1 bath home lived in fulltime by his niece and her husband, for which he gets the tax break as a homestead (but the relatives are listed as the permanent residents and use it as their registered voting address?)! Also fact, on record, folks.

For those of you who say "so what?" or "that information has nothing to do with his book", I say, think again. A man's reputation must be as good as his word, or at least as good as he pretends both to be, if he is going to put himself out there and set himself up as an example. And that is exactly what he is attempting to do with this book.

It does take a family to raise children, I agree. I am a SAHM myself, now. But only because we can't afford decent daycare. Thankfull my husband still has a job, his job is one of the few that hasn't been sent overseas or pushed out of the county by greedy local politcians (the ones you lie down with daily, Rick). Apparently Rick does not have those worries, so it's easy to say "stay home" and "homeschool" and "live on one income".

Why not help fund programs for working moms to pay for decent daycare instead of adding more guilt to their overflowing plates? I am this man's absolute worst nightmare. An educated woman.

His narrow and narrowminded view of what a family is also frightens me. So, Rick. Feminism is responsible for the decline of public schools (which you state are unneccessary and should be abolished in favor of homeschooling), for the degradation of the mother image and of morals in general? Get real, Rick. Try living life the way the rest of us mere mortals do, those of us upon whom you wish to impose your "morals", instead of in that voter-paid-for, country club, ivory-tower mansion you've hidden yourself and your family away in.

What you say isn't even new--it's just repackaged, and poorly, too. Did your aide gather all the "facts" and you signed off on them before the proofs went to the printer?

I agree that if people took a good look at their finances and decided what they really needed vs. what they wanted (ie: jetskis and boats vs. saving for college education for the kids), they might decide it's in their and their children's best interests for the lower earner to stay home when the kids are young, but Santorum seems bound and determined to see that the low earner is and always remains a woman.

And since we live and die by our 401Ks, not social security or the PERS-style, taxpayer funded COLAs we pay for, but that he and his cronies (both Dem and Reprobate, I mean Republican) reap the benefits of, it's easy for him to say parents have an obligation to their children to have one stay at home with them. And then he recommends cutting Pell program funding, so our kids can't get into and stay in the same colleges he wants to send his kids to? What a hypocrite!

Socialization among school-age children is a bad thing? Women in the workforce is a bad thing? A woman who chooses not to have children has made the wrong choice?

But giving himself a raise while cutting Medicaid is a good thing? Stealing from his overwhelmed, overtaxed and overburdened local school district is a good thing? Maybe in his little world it is, where people who disagree with him are "bad" and "wrong". Righteousness with a capital R is not the same thing as being right, Rick.

This book frightens me, more so because it is starting to gain a following among conservatives who haven't read it and do not know what it really says; they tout it as a good book simply because Rick wrote it.

And that's what this book is really about, folks. It's not literature, it's not about a belief system, it's not a sociological study, it's not a guidebook showing how we should parent our kids and be fulfilled and better people while we do it. It's a campaign-builder and stepping stone, a book he can quote from later to make his own comments appear to be factual.

God help us if this man becomes President one day. The Stepfordization of America will have come full circle and we will all be the sorrier (and poorer) for it. And if we let him get in, we will have deserved him.

And to the person (guy, I presume) who wrote that he couldn't believe people read the book two days after publication? He is either 1) a conservative or 2) a bigger idiot than Santorum. Or both. I read it the same way you did, doofus! But probably lots faster and while changing diapers and chewing gum at the same time! We educated women are good like that.[/quote:f8d1e]

PS: Bethel Park is 15 minutes from my house oOo:

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KTOG is Offline Captain Posts: 5,824 Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Robertplantsville	07-07-2005, 07:05 AM Also here is some back story and a non-bias remove on the book: [quote:f8d1e]I live in this man's balliwick and I can tell you, he is not only crazy, he's a liar. He (actually, it's his wife) homeschools their (many) kids in comfort in his expensive home in VA, then allows the Bethel Park, PA school district they "live" in to pay upwards of $80,000 for his kids school fees, since they "attend" its online homeschool forum? He still hasn't paid that debt back and only admitted to it when forced to, when asked by a local reporter for the local PPG newspaper. Look it up folks, those are facts. And the "home" he and his large family "live" in when he's here? A very small, 2 bedroom, 1 bath home lived in fulltime by his niece and her husband, for which he gets the tax break as a homestead (but the relatives are listed as the permanent residents and use it as their registered voting address?)! Also fact, on record, folks. For those of you who say "so what?" or "that information has nothing to do with his book", I say, think again. A man's reputation must be as good as his word, or at least as good as he pretends both to be, if he is going to put himself out there and set himself up as an example. And that is exactly what he is attempting to do with this book. It does take a family to raise children, I agree. I am a SAHM myself, now. But only because we can't afford decent daycare. Thankfull my husband still has a job, his job is one of the few that hasn't been sent overseas or pushed out of the county by greedy local politcians (the ones you lie down with daily, Rick). Apparently Rick does not have those worries, so it's easy to say "stay home" and "homeschool" and "live on one income". Why not help fund programs for working moms to pay for decent daycare instead of adding more guilt to their overflowing plates? I am this man's absolute worst nightmare. An educated woman. His narrow and narrowminded view of what a family is also frightens me. So, Rick. Feminism is responsible for the decline of public schools (which you state are unneccessary and should be abolished in favor of homeschooling), for the degradation of the mother image and of morals in general? Get real, Rick. Try living life the way the rest of us mere mortals do, those of us upon whom you wish to impose your "morals", instead of in that voter-paid-for, country club, ivory-tower mansion you've hidden yourself and your family away in. What you say isn't even new--it's just repackaged, and poorly, too. Did your aide gather all the "facts" and you signed off on them before the proofs went to the printer? I agree that if people took a good look at their finances and decided what they really needed vs. what they wanted (ie: jetskis and boats vs. saving for college education for the kids), they might decide it's in their and their children's best interests for the lower earner to stay home when the kids are young, but Santorum seems bound and determined to see that the low earner is and always remains a woman. And since we live and die by our 401Ks, not social security or the PERS-style, taxpayer funded COLAs we pay for, but that he and his cronies (both Dem and Reprobate, I mean Republican) reap the benefits of, it's easy for him to say parents have an obligation to their children to have one stay at home with them. And then he recommends cutting Pell program funding, so our kids can't get into and stay in the same colleges he wants to send his kids to? What a hypocrite! Socialization among school-age children is a bad thing? Women in the workforce is a bad thing? A woman who chooses not to have children has made the wrong choice? But giving himself a raise while cutting Medicaid is a good thing? Stealing from his overwhelmed, overtaxed and overburdened local school district is a good thing? Maybe in his little world it is, where people who disagree with him are "bad" and "wrong". Righteousness with a capital R is not the same thing as being right, Rick. This book frightens me, more so because it is starting to gain a following among conservatives who haven't read it and do not know what it really says; they tout it as a good book simply because Rick wrote it. And that's what this book is really about, folks. It's not literature, it's not about a belief system, it's not a sociological study, it's not a guidebook showing how we should parent our kids and be fulfilled and better people while we do it. It's a campaign-builder and stepping stone, a book he can quote from later to make his own comments appear to be factual. God help us if this man becomes President one day. The Stepfordization of America will have come full circle and we will all be the sorrier (and poorer) for it. And if we let him get in, we will have deserved him. And to the person (guy, I presume) who wrote that he couldn't believe people read the book two days after publication? He is either 1) a conservative or 2) a bigger idiot than Santorum. Or both. I read it the same way you did, doofus! But probably lots faster and while changing diapers and chewing gum at the same time! We educated women are good like that.[/quote:f8d1e] PS: Bethel Park is 15 minutes from my house oOo: