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To: epicure who wrote (5004)	11/7/2005 8:30:23 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542139

the educated (or those who lack it) do not constitute a protected class I didn't mean constitutionally. I meant politically. I can just see congress passing a law to give a child-raising subsidy to those who were MOST capable of providing for their children on their own. And then there are the practical considerations, like writing the regulations. Let's see. You have to be married, wife must be college educated, and the couple must have a six figure income without the wife being employed. (I drew that from the Singapore example.) Or maybe she can earn some income from certain sources if she can work at home for a few hours a week, maybe writing children's stories. Would we add that the parents must meet any other criteria, like not being felons? Or would they have to attend church regularly? Could the husband work in the porn industry? Would the couple need to be faithful? What about feeding the kids junk food? Can the parents use alcohol? Give it to the kids? Drive recklessly? Could the woman's degree be in anything? How about video gaming? I hear they're giving degrees now in video gaming. And would these homes be inspected or do we do this on the honor system? If the government were to pay for child rearing, I think it would be easier and more cost effective to pay educated professionals to rear the kids of incompetent parents, like in orphanages or perhaps to subsidize some communal arrangements, like assisted-living facilities for families.