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Invest in children – they are the future.
17 August 2005
While Labour and National squabble over childcare schemes to lure the young parent vote, Democrats for social credit candidate for Tauranga Katherine Ransom would like to see real support for parents who wish to stay at home.
Ms. Ransom feels both the major parties fail when it comes to treating children as a number one priority. Minor parties may have the rhetoric of ‘family values’ but without the financial mechanism to deliver. She says the time for supporting parents as first teachers is long overdue.
Democrats for social credit call for a Guaranteed Basic Income, as a form of national dividend, to be issued to all parents and their young children. The GBI would give parents a genuine option of staying home and nurturing children when they need it the most.
“Our children have been consumers of the booming business called education for too long,” Ms. Ransom says. “New Right Economics of the last twenty years has caused serious problems for the adults now emerging into the workforce, all in the name of productivity and the GDP. They aren’t called the “Me” generation by accident.”
“It takes a whole village to raise a child, and not just in Africa or Asia,” Ms Ransom declares. “We need to stop the damage, and bring up a “We” generation, for all our sakes.”
“It’s important to remember that what goes round, comes round,” Ms. Ransom warns. “Park our children in day care now and don’t be surprised if they park us in rest homes later on.”
“Our children are the future. A good future takes investment.”
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