PerryChase, it’s great to have your here, even more so because you are right on!! I’ve got the same saying: people need a license to cut hair, but anyone is allowed to have a child. I used to get so mad when I saw someone bottlefeeding, but I’m getting less judgmental.

I agree that our huge defense budget is stealing money from education. Unfortunately, my fellow Americans love their military. I’m puzzled why we don’t have marches every weekend against the war in Iraq and the military budget. Why do we need to be in almost every country in the world? What other nation has a military that big? What other nation even needs it? Why do we need to have such a big military, if we really are so nice? Shouldn’t everybody LOVE us?

Instead of thinking of paying for other people’s kids’ education, switch to realize you are paying to educate those whose paychecks will be taxed for your Medicare and social security. When they are working, they will pay you back, and the more educated the are, the more they can pay you in entitlements. They will discover the drugs that will heal you, improve cars to run on non-polluting fuels, etc.

My friend with horses said she didn’t think it was fair that the government provides a child tax credit, and not a horse tax credit, because her horses cost as much to feed as a child. I agree. I don’t know why the government subsidizes children. Or houses. Or any of the other things that it decides are useful.