[peteinct]

Why does that phrase always make me want to throw up?

Is it because it is always the rationale for some new way to restrict my rights and steal money from my wallet? To enlarge the power of the state at my expense?

Why do voters fall for such a line of horse manure?

The poster on the baned books thread had it right. Prohibit what you want to with your own kids, leave me and mine out of it!

pete

[Skunkabilly]

Whenever a politician starts talking about 'our children' my socialistometer starts blaring.

I get the feeling that people who support these creeps are:
1. Parents who want to have the government raise their children, thinking the government is going to do the job,
2. Children who were raised by parents that couldn't do the job, thinking the government will be able to get the job done right,
3. Lazy people
4. Idiots
5. Bossy "what's mine is mine, what's yours is everyone else's" people

And a few liberal Republicans that I know, because they're already paying for the services, so they figure, "why the heck not, I might as well get my money's worth since I'm paying for it anyway."

[mussi]

When a politician talks about "the children", watch your wallet with one eye and your liberty with the other.

[Standing Wolf]

The phrase is right down there with "family values," as far as I'm concerned: whenever I hear it, I know a lie is coming.

[KC]

Because it means that someone who believes that they know better than you how you life should be lived, and have absolutly no qualms placing themselves in the role of parent and guardian for your and society's Greater Good.

[jimpeel]

Children are the weapon of choice for the modern Liberal.

They demonstrate their cowardice by hiding behind children.

[zahc]

"For the Children" Is one of my favorite sayings. I use it as a justification for everything imaginable.

It's for the children.

[boyd425]

"It's for the children"
Why does that phrase always make me want to throw up?"

Actually I just laugh any more. Best thing is to think of the simpson episode when they're trying to sell the town to the Olympics governing board. The kids from the school put on a skit that of course goes horribly awry but also pokes sarcastic fun at the tendency now days to use "the children" as an excuse for bad policy. At one point they just dance singing "children.... future..." and waving their hands. Several of my friends have adopted this, it's fun to be at a public hearing in olympia and see a shooter quietly humming the simpsons tune and moving a finger in disco fashion :D
Boyd

[BigG]

It is a slogan designed to play on guilt and anybody who objects to the proposal will be hooted down as "against children."

[Partisan Ranger]

I'll give the anti-freedom bigot Stalinists in this country credit, they know how to appropriate the language for their evil purposes. They cleverly use feel-good-sounding language that, golly, no one could possibly object to!

You know -

For the children
Reasonable gun control laws
Progressive
Pro-choice
affirmative action

[Monkeyleg]

You're right, Partisan Ranger. Somehow, "HitlerJungen" just doesn't generate the same warm fuzzies, even though the strategy is the same: indoctrinate them early, use them for political purposes, and get them to turn on their parents if the parents don't think "right."

[El Tejon]

Hitler, Stalin and Mao all did things "for the children."

I use it for going for a vanilla non-fat latte, leaving the office early, posting on THR, or buying new guns.:D

[Moparmike]

Most everything I do politically is "for the children." I own guns "for the children," I write senators and representatives about important issues "for the children," and I promote the truth about the oppressive .gov and the truth about firearms "for the children."

Make sure everything you do is "for the children." Shame on you for thinking otherwise.:scrutiny:

[keederdag]

Soylent Green is Children.:D

[vmi93]

I think the "for the children" silliness works best with most statists because deep down, most of them long for a return to their own childhoods. They equate childhood with innocence and a lack of responsibility. It explains their desire to have some all-powerful benevolent force telling them what to do at every moment of their lives. Because they believe that their own childhoods were wonderful, they want to do every thing they can do, including limiting civil rights, to "improve" the lot of other children.

I, and probably a significant portion of the other posters here, equate childhood with powerlessness, helplessness, and being ordered around by people who don't deserve our respect. It probably explains our sometimes irrational dislike for anyone cloaked with authority as well as our knee jerk reaction to anyone invoking "the children".

[keederdag]

WOW...that's deep..I thought it was just pandering for the momy vote?:) PS. I suspect "deep down" you have at leaste a minor in pyschology.:D

[Intune]

If one hears- "It takes a village." HIDE THE CHILDREN!