Comments on: Will Children Be Casualties Of The Stimulus “Compromise”? http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/ Dip your toe in the legal waters and change politics as you know it. http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:06:02 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: 1diane http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-982 1diane Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:13:00 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-982 <p>Not that it’s an answer to the big problems outline here, but for schools…</p> <p>kids who lose their homes due to hardship are usually considered homeless and their educational rights are protected by a federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act.</p> <p>More info on our website: <a href="http://www.hearus.us." rel="nofollow">www.hearus.us.</a></p> Not that it’s an answer to the big problems outline here, but for schools…

kids who lose their homes due to hardship are usually considered homeless and their educational rights are protected by a federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act.

More info on our website: http://www.hearus.us.

]]> By: mui1 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-875 mui1 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:03:55 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-875 <p>The situation is getting worse. There are state cuts in CT. And I hear of grinding poverty from grammar school teachers in Bridgeport and high school teachers in CT. Like the no-food issue for instance. This is not what we dems voted for last November. IMHO education and children’s health services are emergency, not pork.</p> The situation is getting worse. There are state cuts in CT. And I hear of grinding poverty from grammar school teachers in Bridgeport and high school teachers in CT. Like the no-food issue for instance. This is not what we dems voted for last November. IMHO education and children’s health services are emergency, not pork.

]]> By: Mauimom http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-762 Mauimom Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:05:12 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-762 <blockquote><p>Because members of Congress need to know that this isn’t some abstract exercise, it’s painful for these kids.</p></blockquote> <p>Unfortunately, Christy, from my experience in working on Capitol Hill, I can tell you that it will take something extra-ordinary to get a Congressperson to actually SEE such reports/blogs.</p> <p>Incoming mail is filtered and distributed to a staff of folks responsible for answering it. Perhaps in small, district offices of a House member one could actually get a letter/blog etc. to a staffie who <em>might </em>get it to the Congresscritter.</p> <p>A Senator represents so many constituents that it’s impossible to get anything to him/her.</p> <p>Your best bet for achieving Congresscritter attention is to either get your missive into the hands of someone high up in the indidvidual Congressperson’s staff, or get it published in a local paper.</p> <p>As you can see, one of the problems is that these folks just don’t have any idea what’s going on in their district/state or the country.</p> <p>I should add that if you’re trying to communicate with a just-elected Congresscritter, you might have slightly better luck: they won’t have established their screening system yet.</p>

Because members of Congress need to know that this isn’t some abstract exercise, it’s painful for these kids.

Unfortunately, Christy, from my experience in working on Capitol Hill, I can tell you that it will take something extra-ordinary to get a Congressperson to actually SEE such reports/blogs.

Incoming mail is filtered and distributed to a staff of folks responsible for answering it. Perhaps in small, district offices of a House member one could actually get a letter/blog etc. to a staffie who might get it to the Congresscritter.

A Senator represents so many constituents that it’s impossible to get anything to him/her.

Your best bet for achieving Congresscritter attention is to either get your missive into the hands of someone high up in the indidvidual Congressperson’s staff, or get it published in a local paper.

As you can see, one of the problems is that these folks just don’t have any idea what’s going on in their district/state or the country.

I should add that if you’re trying to communicate with a just-elected Congresscritter, you might have slightly better luck: they won’t have established their screening system yet.

]]> By: CarolynU http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-761 CarolynU Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:25:11 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-761 <p>Heartless bastards. We are all New Orleans now. Let them eat cake indeed. Do none of these people read history?</p> Heartless bastards. We are all New Orleans now. Let them eat cake indeed. Do none of these people read history?

]]> By: smartlady http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-750 smartlady Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:33:15 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-750 <p>My Florida Panhandle School District is asking people to write our legislatures in red crayon to ask that funding be restored.</p> My Florida Panhandle School District is asking people to write our legislatures in red crayon to ask that funding be restored.

]]> By: AZ Matt http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-748 AZ Matt Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:46:03 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-748 <p>The vegeies at Gila Crossing are used i the schools or given to elder program. The Hopi school kids take the pepper and tomato starts home for their parents gardens and farms.</p> The vegeies at Gila Crossing are used i the schools or given to elder program. The Hopi school kids take the pepper and tomato starts home for their parents gardens and farms.

]]> By: musicsleuth http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-747 musicsleuth Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:36:41 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-747 <p>Way past time for this now, but I’ll take what I can get. I really wish the original proposal was bolder than the one we got — education funding and more support for the states were about the most encouraging pieces of the package and now they are out. Where is the change that we voted for?</p> Way past time for this now, but I’ll take what I can get. I really wish the original proposal was bolder than the one we got — education funding and more support for the states were about the most encouraging pieces of the package and now they are out. Where is the change that we voted for?

]]> By: Ann in AZ http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-746 Ann in AZ Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:27:51 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-746 <p>When the veggies are grown, do you also teach the children about business by letting them set up someplace to sell their veggies? And they learn how to budget for next year’s crop and to fund raise for stuff the school needs but the budget does not allow?</p> When the veggies are grown, do you also teach the children about business by letting them set up someplace to sell their veggies? And they learn how to budget for next year’s crop and to fund raise for stuff the school needs but the budget does not allow?

]]> By: musicsleuth http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-745 musicsleuth Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:26:35 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-745 <p>I ordered the lasagna gardening books. Our soil is better suited for making bricks than growing veggies. My goal is to set up some raised beds in the backyard — hopefully in time for summer crops.</p> I ordered the lasagna gardening books. Our soil is better suited for making bricks than growing veggies. My goal is to set up some raised beds in the backyard — hopefully in time for summer crops.

]]> By: nahant http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-744 nahant Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:17:04 +0000 http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/02/08/will-children-be-casualties-of-the-stimulus-compromise/#comment-744 <p>Repukes don’t care about anyone’s kids but their own! It is time this nation decides that children ARE our country’s future and invests in their future! If we follow the Repukes we WILL leave all but the Rich’s children behind and we will fall into a 3rd world country!</p> Repukes don’t care about anyone’s kids but their own! It is time this nation decides that children ARE our country’s future and invests in their future! If we follow the Repukes we WILL leave all but the Rich’s children behind and we will fall into a 3rd world country!

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