I tried to do freelance development from home after our first child was born and my wife went back to work after her 3 months off. Even with a non-mobile baby there was no way to be productive. Young children need attention. You can't just put them down on a blanket and expect them to be happy. And once they start walking, forgettaboutit.
I would think that any employee saying that they can give a full workday working from home and watching young children at the time is not being truthful.
Sure, when they're older and don't need to be watched constantly, but if I turn my back for more than a minute I'll find our 1 year old playing with an electrical outlet or trying to eat something he shouldn't.
I'm a progressive but I don't know if I'm convinced that the populate is moving to the left. I hope so but....
Romney's loss may just be that he just wasn't a candidate that excited the right-wing enough for them to really get out and vote. Romney wasn't conservative enough for them and he made a number of bone-headed blunders along the campaign trail.
I hear this a lot, usually from social conservatives trying to salvage their seat in the Big Tent after costing the party the Presidency in what should have been a slam-dunk election. It doesn't make any sense. Obama has governed as a centrist, not the wild-eyed leftist that he's been portayed as. People who voted Republican in this election did so because they shared the personal goal of getting rid of Obama by any means necessary.
More conservatism in Romney's platform could not possibly have helped.
I don't define "progressive" as right or left. I pretty much define it as "solution-driven" rather than "status-quo" driven.
The GOP has been "status-quo" since Reagan. Say what you like about Paul Ryan, he's at least looking toward the future. The rest of the GOP establishment is still livings the past. Problem is the country isn't.
The right would have voted for a lump of coal vs Obama after foaming at the mouth for the past four years at Obama. Romney is kind of proof of that since he was the pick of the primaries.
It's not a get out the vote problem, it's just that the old population is slowly dying off and they can only brainwash their young to a certain level when information flows so freely today.
I am disappointed there is only a 2.5% difference in the popular vote when Bush was only 4 years ago but people have tiny memories and change happens slowly. Values like anti-gay, anti-birthcontrol, etc. etc. etc. aren't going to fly with most voters under 25 unless they are raised in a very conservative environment and are never exposed to the rest of the world outside their home.
As if the young population won't age and replace them? Believe me, age, responsibility, and having kids changes your outlook. When I was 25 and didn't know anything, I was pretty liberal too. I voted for Jesse Jackson once. And I supported Romney this year, even though he wasn't conservative enough for me, he was better than the alternative.
As if the young population won't age and replace them?
No, I don't think young people with openly gay friends and coworkers are going to decide 10 years from now that they really should be shunned by society. And if you're thinking at all rationally about marijuana, you'll recognize that the greatest danger it represents to your kids is them being arrested over it.
The GOP is seemingly going out of their way to make sure that nobody under 30 even considers voting for them, except for the strongly religious. Which as a fiscal conservative I find quite frustrating.
My wife and I started a similar site awhile back, originally just for our family. After realizing there were so many other competing sites out there we put it on the backburner. Never even really finalized a name/URL.
I would think that any employee saying that they can give a full workday working from home and watching young children at the time is not being truthful.
Sure, when they're older and don't need to be watched constantly, but if I turn my back for more than a minute I'll find our 1 year old playing with an electrical outlet or trying to eat something he shouldn't.