MountainMan

I never said I wanted to trade, just that I was willing to part with them.

I still disagree. You and I are probably destined to disagree on this point, but as i said, I think most of it is because people want more "stuff'. Touche. I think that any two parent household is potentially putting their children at risk if both parents work outside the home. As I said earlier, I found a wonderful provider for when I was at work. That is possible for single moms, single dads and two parent families, but the risk is greater for single parent families because they have to put the kids in day care. Two parent families mitigate the risk because they have the option to not use daycare. I understand this, but for me, sometimes things depended upon being available for extra hours. I didn't have family available to pick up familial duties and thus had to leave work at times. That made me less of a benefit to the company regardless of my skills. It happens with women more frequently than men, but the result is the same. The tendency in society is to have the mother take time off before the father does. And this is just my lack of knowledge about you personally, and your country. It was not meant as an insult against you. My point was more that anybody that puts their children in daycare runs a risk. Two parent families have a lot better chance of eliminating that risk than single parents do. Please try not to take things so personally, I was being more general in my comments than specific.

I have a lot of hispanics down here in the US I am willing to part with. You are more than welcome to them.

A flying spaghetti monster? How ridiculous. Everybody knows that the IPU is the one and only true god. The Invisible Pink Unicorns is a being of great spiritual power. We know this because she is capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorn is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that she is pink; we logically know that she is invisible because we can't see her.

I would argue that most families have 2 people working so that they can have more "stuff". Just don't put your kids at risk in order to please yourself. I don't know that you are, just hope that you don't. Actually, that is not quite true, single fathers do have their careers suffer. I know from personal experience. My kids are grown up now, and all of the sudden I seem to be a hot commodity at work. Why?, because I don't have to take time off when the kids are sick, I don't have to go to parent/teacher conferences anymore, etc etc. Again I disagree, it is because they want more "stuff". No government program will accomplish that. You are absolutely correct on this point. I would have preferred to raise my children in a "traditional" household, but those circumstances didn't happen for me. I was fortunate to find a private day-care provider for after school care that had the same principles as myself, but the bottom line is, I was always the parent.

Wow, could you possibly have made any more excuses for a criminal act?

The bolded statement is why people fail. The money I have put into my stock portfolio has tremendously outpaced the money I have put into my house. For 14 years, my mortgage has been $500-$600 a month, my investment in stocks has been under $200 a month for most of that time. The stock portfolio is worth more than the house, and certainly worth more than the gained equity of the house. The house purchase was more of a hedge against inflation, rents go up, house payments do not provided you get a fixed rate. I re-financed after a few years in the house, and lowered my payment while reducing the length of the mortgage. You are spot on about buying a house you can afford. I had just me and my 2 daughters, 1200 sq feet was plenty of house for us.

You posted the question, are you going to say what you think?

They run because they can win. Name recognition seems to be more valuable than anything else in US politics.