Why we blog...

The 2010 elections indicated a dramatic shift to the right in response to the current administration’s attempt to overhaul the ineffective and oppressive healthcare system.  Fueled by anti-welfare and “rugged individualist” rhetoric championed by “Tea-party” proselytizers and pro-business flacks, lawmakers across the country have begun to attack programs deemed “socialistic” in an attempt to balance the ailing state and federal budgets. Rather than ridding the country of the criminal business practices--predatory trading, neoliberal trade agreements, unsustainable credit system, and the systematic destruction of unions--that led to the current financial crisis, legislators aimed their red pens at the demographic least likely to affect them at the polls, the underprivileged youth.  This voiceless demographic represents the culmination of the groups least represented in government--the youth, lower classes, and minorities--resulting in it becoming easy prey when conservative governments implement “cost-cutting” measures. We not only believe that it is economically irresponsible to turn our backs on the underprivileged, but, more centrally, that it is the moral obligation of government to see that the most voiceless and vulnerable have their most basic needs met. Void of public outrage and unrest, socially-conscious and welfare-oriented programs will continue to be cut and negated until the underprivileged will have to rely on the beneficence of passersby flipping pennies in a cup for a bite to eat. Because the young and poor cannot speak out against its governmental attackers and aggressors, this blog attempts to highlight the current legislative abuses inflicted upon the poor children--ages 0 to 5--as to incite the unrest necessary for beneficial change. As they cannot speak, we must be their voices. As they cannot march, we must be their feet and bear their pickets.