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A selection of reader comments from our Facebook page last week:
On a poll question asking how would you rate NBC’s coverage of the Olympics?
• Some of the commentating is really bad. Too much opinion about doing this or that right or wrong, to much negative criticism. On the positive side the coverage of some of the odd events is really good — Samuel B.
On whether West Virginia should continue to fund child care assistance for low-income families?
• Yes! — Carol P.
• I don’t think that they should pay for the entire amount. I think that it would be OK to help with a portion of it. When I was in the military lower enlisted soldiers got help with 20 hours of child care a week. To me that isn’t unrealistic — Jamie L.
• I think if your a hard working mother and your single or if your a hard working father and your single — two if your married and you need the help — yes I think the people should have it. But now the ones that are lazy and drug heads — no no no. I don’t think they should get anything. I think they need a drug test done! I think U.S. taxpayers have a right to say what our money is used for and I sure don’t want my hard-earned money used to buy someone else some drugs. It makes me sick to know that all these dope heads get everything handed to them on a silver platter and that goes for the lazy people too! So no them people should not be privileged to have day care paid for! — Danielle G.
• This is common sense to me. If you are low income already, and struggle to make ends meet, you obviously can’t afford $25 a day for child care. This is not the place and time to make budget cuts — Tiffany S.
• Yes the ones that really need it — Mary C.
• Yes — Mary S.
• For low income working families, absolutely! The screwed up thing is that with the changes they are proposing, that will be the people who can’t get the help — Dana S.
• Yes! — Melissa K.
• There’s an argument over providing child care for low-income families? Why? Who wouldn’t want children in suitable day care so that their parents who have the ambition to go out and work, can do just that? Programs that provide assistance for low-income families should definitely be continued — John N.
• The trouble with West Virginia is if you try to work and help yourself you can’t get no help at all but these sorry people who set on their butt all day and druggies get it all. So you have more if you don’t work — Della S.
• Yes. Without it they will have to quit their jobs leading them to have less income so they will depend on the state for more. Help those who help themselves but come up short instead of those who refuse to even try. Why reward the dead beats and punish those who try hard but fall just a little short? — Kristy L.
• Well I put it like this. I do not live in West Virginia anymore. I live in North Carolina, but I feel that without day care assistance I would struggle even more and I am a single parent and yes I do get child support. I also work six out of seven days and there is no weekend day care's open so I have to let my sister keep him and I thank her cause she does not charge me to keep him. But with the help that DSS (Department of Social Services) pays on their part helps me because if I had to do it without them I would be struggling and a lot of things my child would be without like certain things he needs. day care is not cheap and the people who owns them know it. They also want the parent fee plus what the state does not pay. One of them my son went to even had us paying and extra $20 a week so that made the parent fee more each week. It is difference when you are paying $70 a month with help and some are paying $250 to $300 a month with help. And day care runs about $500 or so. I thank God that the DSS helps pay mine and also that he starts school this year. So yes they should continue the child care fund for the families. But you also need to check into the ones who are not working and is still getting day care help — Shirley B.
• I think it depends on the situation. Each case needs evaluated to see how much help should be given. For example, if both parents are in the picture working, whether they’re together or not, two incomes should be able to pay more than a single income. If only one parent is involved — not meaning only one works — because in that case the other should be keeping the children — Janine B.
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August 1, 2012
Debating child care assistance
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