Let's look at the possible reasons:
1) Statistics show that blacks primarily benefit from education spending.
2) Statistics show that the poor benefit more than the middle class.
3) It has been shown that if this type of entitlement is ended many will be deprived of government funded baby-sitters.
4) The government wants to give pre-school children a "head start" from public education which they rightfully should be getting at home.
5) The government has an agenda and the best way to accomplish government initiatives is to reach the young early.
6) Increase in education funding buys votes for those who legislate entitlements.
7) Socialism states that the family unit is an impediment to the good of society and that social justice is best achieved when children are taught by the government.
8) The best way to take God out of the lives of people is to deprive them of biblical knowledge.
9) Maybe more possibilities which the reader may provide.
I believe that all the reasons enumerated are valid and applicable. Let's examine each reason for spending such incredible amounts of money:
1) Minorities, especially blacks, do receive the most benefit because that's where the money will be spent. That's social justice and is a progressive initiative. Those to whom goes the most receives the most benefit. In the words of Marx "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" That's income redistribution; robbing from the haves to give to the have-nots. Since progressives believe that blacks aren't motivated and intelligent enough to succeed on their own, they want to level the playing field. As a result progressive "blue states" where social justice is the law, have the worst performance.
Colossians 3:23 "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men..."
Proverbs 13:4 "The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat."
In short babysitting children to save the parents money doesn't pay off! The problem isn't that pre-schoolers aren't learning sufficiently, but that those in K-12 aren't! Broken homes, incomplete families, working mothers and the resultant rebellion, apathy, disrespect and lack of motivation are the culprits, not to mention drug use among the parents and even teenagers. For whatever reason the poorest, whether black or white, lack motivation.
2) The poor will in fact benefit more than the middle class. That's socialism in action! Those who work foot the bill for those who don't! Forced ineffective taxes to further social justice is just not the solution to the root cause. Poor people stay poor for various reasons, but lack of pre-school education would not be high on the list. In fact intact functioning well-balanced families would increase outcomes much more so than any pay for placation programs the government implements. A family and society which teaches hard work and motivation is the answer; not programs which let young children try to stay within the lines while coloring! In addition to the above passages, consider this:
Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV) "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."
God can be depended on. He doesn't want his children to hunger and fail. However, for God to work in the lives of children in order that they can succeed, they must be taught scripture and know what God says to them. There is an "instruction manual" for children and it's called the Bible! Especially useful is the Book Of Proverbs. A intact family, humbly serving the Lord, is the answer to supplying their needs!
Matthew 6:31 (ESV) "Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all."
God will supply all those who lean on him! If our hope is in the government, that undermines God. How can our heavenly father help when the government becomes the answer to everything? Government has become the god of the people. A jealous God allows poverty as punishment for disobedience!
3) Pre-school programs become glorified babysitters. It does little more than provide a space to be while the parents are missing. Furthermore, beyond social interaction these early programs are not in-depth learning. Beyond early social interaction they don't supply enough benefit to offset the mother and or father whose missing from their lives. Scripture assigned gender roles for families.
Titus 2:1-5 "But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. 2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. 3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled."
Note that it's not the governments role to teach "morality". It's the mother's and father's! The young women will be blessed since their natural role is to maintain the household and to teach appropriate behavior! The men should also teach, but are to be steadfast. That means that they're there for the wife and children and that they provide the stable home! In areas with high minority demographics, the bread-winner is not there, and the female has "choices" of government begging or low income jobs! Minority men performing their God-assigned roles as leaders of the home will help the women do theirs and all will benefit! With a Godly home, God provides a future. He's just needs to be part of the picture!
4) Entitlement programs, including those who aim to raise your children for you, aimed at minorities and the other poor, implies that those groups need more help because they're either genetically inferior or from homes of incompetent parents. Knowing my own background, I was economically handicapped. I was raised in poverty. My goal throughout life was to raise myself out of what I was born into, and that in itself was encouragement to succeed! The tools which I needed to provide hope wasn't what the government will do for me, but what God provides for me! President Kennedy said "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what can you do for your country." That's profound! Unfortunately today's progressive (socialistic) Democrats have abandoned that mantra. "Ask how we can bleed others for what they have earned and stifle the economy by stealing incentive to succeed!" As a result the poor linger in poverty and are hurt the worst!
Colossians 3:23 (ESV) "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men..."
"Making it yourself" is motivation. These programs which reward without effort fail. People lose their self-worth. They look toward others for success when success lies right there within them. Trading your children for a few dollars ruins families. People wonder why they and their children lack relationships. It's because they're seldom together. It's most wise for a parent to raise their own children than handing them over to government programs where they are taught everything and anything, but not what is righteous!
Proverbs 22:6 (ESV) "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it."
That's a promise from God. If you don't believe in God, that's behaviorism. A child learns from what he's taught. The government believes this more than parents do. Uncle Sam knows that future liberalism depends on remolding children as early as they can so when they're adults they are tools for socialistic and secular humanists policies. That's why the government wants God out of the public arena. In that way Christianity becomes myth which is to be practiced only in privacy and out of sight of others who might be persuaded.
5) The government does have an agenda! The government consists in the present age of a conglomeration of non-believers, skeptics, secular humanists and those of liberal theology. Those liberal theologians are those who believe in "goodness" (social justice), but don't buy the doctrine that Jesus is God and that he sacrificed himself for personal salvation. They generally believe in heaven, but not hell, hence there is nothing to be "saved from" and personal salvation is for the crazies! Not true! They should try accepting Jesus' own words:
John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Liberal theologians and the world want a child to believe anything, but not this! Christianity is viewed as intolerant and repressive to the the the masses; not in the "common good". Since the gate to God is narrow, Christians are different than most, but that difference for true Christians is love, charity and obedience. Obedience maintains civil structure because civilized societies work best when "natural law" (God's Law) is the foundation!
Socialism's strategy is to take God out of our lives:
"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." (Karl Marx)
Socialists believe that God exists only in the mind of the ignorant and that the church uses God to control. Rather than God being the "provider", God is seen as the cause of poverty. The only way to step out of poverty is to leave God behind! What better way to destroy God in our country than by indoctrination of our children and the destruction of the family unit! Karl Marx said this:
"The bourgeois (wealthy) family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.”
Socialists say they are destroying parent/child relationships by allowing the government to teach the children. What will they teach? That there is no God, no responsibility except to the State and to make "Stepford Children" out of our precious little ones. By being taught en masse individualism is destroyed! Then everything becomes for the "common good".
Parents who raise their children correctly are "child abusers", according to socialists! They exploit their own children. They say that with a straight face when their own modus operandi is to exploit the young members of the family; to turn children away from the parents!
Matthew 10:21 describes the socialist end-of-time government led society:
..."Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
The destruction of the family and alienating children from their parents is a socialist initiative and the same initiative that the Antichrist will have as we approach the tribulation period, which won't be a sudden thing, but come on us gradually, so even the elect will fail to see it coming. Conservatives call that "creeping socialism"! That dastardly ungodly ideology already has your children and you don't even know it! Why do you think progressives win elections? It's because they have the young! Likewise, liberalism has created a chasm between other family members: men and women. There IS a war on women... and men, and it's waged by socialists. They're doing what they say that they will do! Further destruction of the family is the "same sex" marriage movement. It destroys the traditional relationships between men and women and destroys the historic and traditional family! "Woe are we!" We're copilots to Marxist pilots!
6) Liberal entitlements are vote-buying gimmicks. Who really believes that the government cares about you? Just as we employees thought that General Motors cared about us to the extent we referred to her as "Generous Mothers" we eventually realized that caring was a ploy for profits and when profits diminished, so did the caring. That's the same with government caring. They care about immigration as long as the immigrants vote their way. They care about minorities as long as blacks are enslaved to them. They care about children as long as those children "drink their kool-aid" as they reach adulthood. What those in power really want is to stay in power. Entitlements insure that! It's dishonest and expensive policy and is destroying the foundation of our republic.
Just as hedonism and Epicureanism were the greatest contributors to the Fall of Rome, it will be the same for the fall of the entire world. America is going the down the drain with the same cancer, and our children are the pawns in this war on morals and Christianity.
7) Whereas the government at one time wanted "A few good men", now they want a "few remolded children". Progressives aren't the first. Hitler, yes a socialist, had the "Hitler Youth" who were children sponsored by the NSDAP to insure there would continue to be those who would make socialist thought live on after those in power were gone. Children were a tool for the National Socialists and they are a tool for the progressive socialists. "It's for our children!" is the biggest lie. It's for retention of power.
Mark 12:17 " And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
This passage is normally used to support the paying of taxes which is what Jesus was responding to, but what's missed is that Jesus was more concerned to giving things to God that are Gods! That's what the baby dedication ceremony is about!
1 Samuel 1:27 "For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: 28 Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. "
That's what parents pledge to do when they dedicate their newborn, but then many go right ahead and turn their children over to godless government programs. No wonder God withholds the blessings from Christian families! Many are just not true to their commitments!Repeating what Marx said "We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social." Read and re-read! Socialism seeks to destroy the family by replacing the parent. Not only does the government endeavor to replace God, but parents as well. That's what financing pre-school education is all about. The government suckles power from the corporate teats of the people; and the people freely submit to the milking! As Samuel prayed, you're to lend your children to the Lord. God gave them to you and you are to apprentice them back to God! By turning them over to government indoctrination Christians shirk their God-given responsibility!
8) Be assured that not only does pre-school sponsored by the government fails to teach godly righteousness, but they teach things anathema to Christians. In my own children's middle school the sex-education curriculum included homosexuality and bestiality. I'm certain that all new deviance's become included as they are accepted by secular humanism, and forced government standards insure that each are taught.Colossians 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
Simply put "Be careful that what the world teaches because it's not what Christ taught!" Parents would never allow their children to be exposed to child molesters, but think nothing of allowing their children to be taught by those who would molest their souls! Parents beware!
If you don't want your children to know the eternal truths of God, just turn them over to others when they're children. Although there are many Christian teachers in pre-school, many are not, and at my children's middle school, godly teachers were forced to teach ungodly beliefs! A member of my church said "Mr. Brown would never allow that!" Mr. Brown had no choice! It was dictated by secular humanists in the government bureaucracy.
Who is going to teach your children about God unless you, the parent, takes charge? Nobody will. Therefore it's your obligation as a parent.
9) Any discerning Christian should be able to find more reasons that the government wants your children! Discerning is the key word:
Luke said it well:
Luke 12:55 "And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. 56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? 57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?"
The Bible tells you what it will be like as we near the end of time. Socialism plainly spells out the intention of socialism.They agree on the methods! It is to make those godly ungodly. It will be so gradual that only those with discernment will see it coming. Most will fail to judge what is right! It's not right that government entitlement programs rob you of your children! It's not right that same-sex couples can adopt and rob children of a normal life. It's not right that Christians have join forces with evil by ignoring God's warnings. We who should know better sacrifice our own children to the god at the alter of the Federal Building. We're no better than our pagan forebears:
Leviticus 20:3 "And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. 4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: 5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people."
Parents, don't go a whoring after the government. Bring your children up yourself. By handing them over to those in opposition to God, you've appeased Molech, but saddened God. He will only stand for this a short time, then he will punish, and I don't blame him!
One final note: Taxes pay for entitlements. Marx, for the "common good" of socialism, called for a progressive income tax. Those taxes which are misused and wasted by the government is "redistribution of the wealth" and the government isn't noted for efficiency, nor do they care!
Give those ill-gotten taxes to the government, but give unto God the things that are God's. Give your children to the service of God.
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