Children

When did children become bargaining chips?

This country is so broken that we have resorted to separating children from their illegal immigrant parents.  In such a modern developed country as ours, this is how we enforce immigration laws? 

We have refused to take common sense steps to ensure the safety of our children from gun violence while they are at their schools to learn.  Somehow we have conflated the issue of gun safety with gun ownership and our children have to pay the price.  Do we adults think that our petty arguments about gun ownership are more important than productive dialog about the safety of our children?

We are refusing to deal with the ballooning federal deficit to the coming detriment of our children.  Is the need for immediate tax giveaways more important that the secure financial future for our children and grandchildren?

We have refused to hold big pharma accountable for their part in creating the opioid drug crises that is robbing children of parents.  By allowing the drug lobby to become involved with the DEA efforts to prosecute drug companies are we essentially saying that their profits are more important than children's parents?

We are attempting to cripple the public school system by appointing a Secretary of Education that has no professional education credentials.  Her help seems to be allowing cronies to take over the collection of school loans from students.  Will concentrating on loan collection actually help our children become productive citizens?  Will ignoring public schools and only concentrating on "vouchers" for private schools help our children? 

We have spent countless hours on stupid arguments like what bathroom to use or whether someone is kneeling during the national anthem or what the craziest tweet of the day from the president means.  How is any of this helping our children?

WE ARE THE ADULTS.  Let's start acting like adults and discuss issues and solutions instead of partisan bickering at the expense our our children.