Children are the future & to cripple a fifth of our kids with poverty while forcing their families into terrible choices between childcare or food is grotesque & America can do better.

Does it, as the old African saying goes, take a village to raise a child? According to Republican Senator Ron Johnson, the answer is "no."

"I've never really felt it was society's responsibility to take care of other people's children," Johnson said while trying to lay his hands on some of the $403,733 that Kwik Trip's executives and employees coughed up in the last election cycle (most went to the RNC).

Johnson added that it wasn't just his philosophy that rich people's tax dollars shouldn't help children in poverty get decent nutrition or housing. He thinks if we use those tax dollars to help out struggling families it'll actually be bad for America.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Ron Johnson Is Pillaging & Destroying "It Takes a Village To Raise a Child"" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ron Johnson opposes… child care: It's not 'society's responsibility to take care of other people's children'" by Austin Linfante.

Article: "Declaration of Independence: A Transcription".

Article: "Child Care: an Important Part of American Life" by U.S. Census Bureau.

Article: "The costs of child care around the world" by Jacqueline Howard.

Article: "High quality child care is out of reach for working families" by Elise Gould and Tanyell Cooke.

Article: "Unintended Pregnancy in the United States" by Guttmacher Institute.

Article: "Childcare around the world: How other countries do it better" by Ciara Kenny.

Article: "Child Poverty in the United States: A Tale of Devastation and the Promise of Hope" by Alyn T. McCarty.

Article: "Sen. Ron Johnson: Society should provide opportunities for people to get jobs, but not responsible for child care" by Leah Rivard.

Article: "Facts About Child Hunger in America" by No Kid Hungry.

Article: "Kwik Trip Co" by Open Secrets.

Article: " Ron Johnson" by Open Secrets.

Article: "The American Child Care Crisis" by Maggie Thomas.

Article: "Alabama cops monitored social media and threatened critics with arrest for 'inciting a riot'" by Travis Gettys.

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Quote: "because of the Sermon on the Mount, sir" - Kurt Vonnegut.

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Site: All On The Line.

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Clip: "Dank Ihrer Führung wird Deutschland sein Ziel erreichen, Heimat zu sein. Heimat zu sein für alle Deutschen der Welt." by Rudolph Hess, 1934 Nuremburg rally.

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Article: "Violent extremism at the DHS: How our 'second Pentagon' failed to avert the most threatening attack on US democracy in centuries " by Andrea Mazzarino.

Article: "Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11" by Joanna Walters and Alvin Chang.

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Tweet: "@Thom_Hartmann just talked about this on his show today. You can see here the urban centers have already peaked but the rural infections increase beyond this point. For Alabama 7-10 days, for South Carolina over 2 weeks. These are two of the least vaccinated states." by jellyrollblues.

Twitter: "jellyrollblues".

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