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Female anchor confronts Ron Paul over plan for women to quit work en masse and home school
BBC anchor Katy Kay on Thursday asked former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) if his libertarian plan to have 20 percent of children home schooled made sense because so many women would have to drop out of the work force, but the former congressman insisted that even a woman living at a shelter with two jobs could find a way to do it if she worked hard enough.
During an interview on MSNBCs Morning Joe to promote his book, The School Revolution, Paul said he wanted to offer families an education alternative that emphasized the importance of the individual versus, you know, everybody coming together.
I want people to be able to home school their children, he remarked. Not everybody, this is designed to pick out the leaders who want to. And maybe 20 percent might be interested in doing this. But these would be leaders who would be talking about running for Congress and understand why the Federal Reserve is a problem.
But Kay, who was guest-hosting, noted that if you want to get to 20 percent of children who are being home schooled, thats going to mean a vast drop of number of women in the workforce because it is largely women who are doing the home schooling.
A lot of women cant afford to give up their jobs and home school their children, a lot of families cant afford that, and do we actually want to encourage women not take part in the workforce because we know how valuable that diversity is? Kay pressed. Im concerned about advocating home schooling on this level, when women are having such a hard time already staying in the workforce.
Those are the problems created by what Im trying to correct, Paul insisted. Because they have to be in the workforce and they have to work and not take care of kids because of the system that we have because its survival for them.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/19/female-anchor-confronts-ron-paul-over-plan-for-women-to-quit-work-en-masse-and-home-school/
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female anchor confronts ron paul over saying women should quit work, homeschool children (Original Post)
niyad
Sep 2013
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phantom power
(25,966 posts)1. there's so much libertarian awesome here
You see, if you aren't some form of Galtian Ubermensch who can work 16 hours a day and home-school their kids the other 8 hours (der uber-menschen do not require sleep), then it's just your own fucking fault for being lazy.
Also, I totally love this bit of aristocratic class-ism:
"Not everybody, this is designed to pick out the leaders who want to. And maybe 20 percent might be interested in doing this. But these would be leaders who would be talking about running for Congress and understand why the Federal Reserve is a problem."
Puny humans -- government is for the Galtian Ubermenschen!
niyad
(113,315 posts)3. I read that, looked at my coffee cup to make sure there wasn't anything else in it, read it again,
and still wanted to smack some sense into that arrogant, woman-hating pos. "oh, she lives in a shelter, has two piss-poor, minimum wage jobs, but should still find time to home school her kids, unless she is just plain lazy".
that there is actually any kind of support for this nutcase in supposedly progressive, humanitarian types, blows my mind.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)2. Ron Paul is a fucking idiot and for being a liberterian,
what about letting folks decide how to raise their own kids and when and when not to work?
niyad
(113,315 posts)4. correct me if I am wrong, but I don't seem to recall any truly pro-woman's rights programs coming
out of the libertarians.