The liberal-progressive argument of "last" (but soon-becoming "first") resort on altogether too many issues is the impact on those least able to fend for themselves, children --- and even better, "children with special needs"
The Daily News contribution a couple of days ago was "The city's school bus strike hits disabled students the hardest -- With several subways missing elevator access and cabs lacking adequate storage space for wheelchairs, parents of special needs children already grow frustrated" ( post by RACHEL MONAHAN , CORINNE LESTCH AND RICH SCHAPIRO / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/ THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013, 10:00 PM [ http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-school-bus-strike-hits-disabled-students-hardest-article-1.1242273#ixzz2IRhceMYE]). The Times chimed in yesterday with FRANCES ROBLES' piece "With Bus Strike, Fragile Students Face Hard Trips" (published: January 18, 2013 [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/nyregion/school-bus-strike-poses-challenge-for-special-needs-students.html]).
Why doesn't somebody look into the liberal/progressive PR machine that tirelessly works to make these kinds of emotive and sentimental pitches on public issue after public issue so that public policy is always about affect and never about effect. More important, it's why politics and public policy is driven by grossly inflated "perceived" needs, and not by an estimate of the real needs of certain people, the people-with-needs' reasonable ability to pay the costs for the services they need, and if necessary the public's reasonable ability to assist those in need from contributions from the public fisc.
Everybody needs to take note of the wisdom, insight and JUSTICE of Ebeneezer Scrooge before an obvious Christmas Eve stroke rendered him a helpless and hopeless liberal/progressive idiot.
2 comments:
Why cant these kids walk, take the sunway or bus?
You must be talking about mainstream students. My post briefly mentioned special needs children; many of whom do suffer from extreme physical deficits rather than fiscal ones. My point was that a massive liberal/progressive PR machine uses those very pathetic and needy kids as their emotional shock troops in any battle to keep the costs of services under control. In this instance, both the Times and the Daily News used the circumstances of some special needs children to divert attention from a greedy striking union trying to get stuff in a corrupt industry that gobbles up lots of public funding.
Nonetheless, you do seem to be an old-style Ebeneezer Scrooge at heart; so, thank you for your comment.
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