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Just stumbled across these questions (great ones, by the way), and the predictable conservative response: Nasty liberal feminists are just jealous because Sarah Palin has it all.

It turns out the way Gov. Palin has been able to have it all has been to bill it to the state of Alaska. The state paid her a per diem to stay in her home, closer to her children, and paid to bring them to the state capitol when she needed to come to the main office.

They paid to send her daughters with her on official trips, so that she could spend time with them.

I’m sure there are working mothers across this country who would love those type of job perks. Maybe Gov. Palin could elaborate on whether she thinks other working moms are entitled to the work-life balance assistance the state of Alaska pays for in her case.

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A call for a VP candidate — the one who could be the leader of the free world at any moment if elected — to answer questions in an honest and forthright way about her stand on the issues is being bitter?

I don’t think so.

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I hope I can teach my beloved five-year- old daughter that “life doesn’t just happen to you”. Our behaviours and choices govern how our lives turn out and ultimately, our children’s welfare. We have to teach our daughters to make good decisions because the reality is that the stakes are higher if you are a girl. A women has to be prepared to take care of herself and anyone else that comes along (ie, babies). Why don’t feminists focus on teaching girls that the most important decision you ever make is who to make babies with and you better choose well? I made a lot of sacrifices to finish my education before marriage and to attain financial stability and a happy marriage before I produced children. My husband and I made major sacrifices so I could be home with my kids when they were small. I continue to invest in my relationship so that I stay married and I chose wisely in the first place. I didn’t make babies until I was married. My happy outcome didn’t “just happen”. Good behaviour and wise choices gave me a much higher probability for a happy life. Why don’t we tell women the truth? You create your own destiny. No government program will insure your children a good education or adequate healthcare. Who is going to pay for all of these social programs? I’m tired of paying for other people’s bad choices. I’m a recovering feminist and I have hope that the day will come when real women stand up and speak the truth. Our kids need us to get it together, ladies, and keep it together! If you receive your basic needs from the government, you will always be dependent on the public largesse. If you depend on yourself, no one can ever take it away from you……………or your kids. I care enough to tell young women the truth and I thank God that I had a mother that told me even though she had a baby at seventeen she wanted a whole lot more for me. Thanks, Mom, for telling me the truth. I know it seems like I wasn’t listening during all of those “talks”, but, I’m pushing forty now and I think I finally got it.

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Pay no attention to the bitter liberals Sarah. The inability of liberals to see that you are the embodyment of what they pretend to stand for, simply becuse you disagree on abortion is an amazing thing to watch. These women can’t get their heads around what they should feel about you so they lash out. Pretty basic self defense maneuver, but still fun to watch.
Liberals have always trended toward the petty, but when they are confronted by you they become confused and unsure about their loyalties. Deep down, they really want to be like you. They are desperate to be self reliant, confident, a wonderful mother and wife. Yet it is their inability to surrender anything at all that keeps them a bound up.
You are a great example to daughters everywhere. (even to liberal daughters, they just won’t realize it until they are older).
Thank you for your willingness to walk through this mine field. Noone lashes out like an emotionally confused woman.

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“It is not about what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country” JFK

Do American’s really want to be Socialists?

If yes, do they understand the next step is Communism?

If you went to college, in the first year you learned that Socialism is the first step towards Communism.

Now I ask you, do American’s want to be Communists?

Think About It America!

This election is not about women’s rights or anything else!

It is about FREEDOM!

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I am a single mother. I have a degree and numerous certificates.
This year is the first year in 10 that I have had a vacation. I used exactely zero personal days this year, I am so reliable and accountable that I am openly the company “go-to” person. My daughter is a high school honor student, band drum major and reporter for our local paper.
I am paid far less than the men and “non-mothers” in my company. I have less benefits and more work.
The “non-mother” who blogged about the unfair circumstances in her work place, may want to look deeper for the true reason she is treated that way.
I feel sorry for people who may not be mothers and either never had one themselves or have forgotten what having one meant to them. Not because I think everyone should be a parent, but because I would hope everyone would understand that without mothers, our species would not exist. Without working mothers, our species would not exist.

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If you did not realize you have it made compared to woman you need to get a grip

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Interesting…”You say you’re going to be an advocate for special needs children, now that you have one of your own…”

That’s disturbing. So, is she saying she had to have a special needs child before she could relate to the challenges…and now that she does, she is willing to do someting to help other special needs families?

I think…ALL mothers feel the challenges (regardless of whether or not we’ve truly experienced them) of a special needs child. I think all children, but surely special needs children, deserve all the love and support society can share. And that’s key – sharing. The attention, the care, and…the wealth.

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I am sick to death of accommodating working mothers. I cannot count the times work has been dumped on my desk because some mother has to flee the office because the school or the day care provider calls with an emergency. In some instances my works suffers because theirs took priority. Several years ago I was forced to do a woman’s work whose job I was told I was not qualified to do and were turned down for the position. This woman would leave on average of once a week. If I wasn’t qualified then why was I always given her work to do whenever she needed to leave for a child issue? Forget about it. I finally had a talk with my manager and told him if he continued to do this to me I’d take the issue to our HR department. If you can’t make it to work and stay at work, then stay at home with the kid(s) or have the school or day care provided call the father. Or here is an idea; don’t breed!

These days’ companies have to provide segregated areas for nursing women who have returned to work so they can pump their breasts. The state mandates time limits and guidelines but they are usually abused and not enforced because no one wants to look like an ogre. Here again others are doing the work of the new mother.

As for bringing the kid to work, please don’t. That does not work in a fast paces office. One day a co-work brought in her year old for the last three hours of the day because the sitter’s child had an emergency she had to attend to. The kid screamed most of the three hours. I was on the phone and the customer said to me: “How nice you can work from home”, I told her I was in the office and she pardoned herself saying she “assumed” I was working from home because she could hear a child crying in the background. Not to mention the mother didn’t get much work done as she spent most of her time tending to the kid.

Why should mothers be held to a different work standard than women who are not mothers or men? The fact that they are paid less than non-mother is because they not as accountable or dependable. Single and young mothers make less because they usually are not as educated or skilled as they non-mother counter parts. Sounds fair to me.

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I’d love to hear back from Gov. Palin on these questions. Every parent in the U.S. should have the same wonderful benefits she’s enjoyed.

It would be great to hear her stances on our MOTHERS issues, which would provide those essential protections to all working families in the U.S. (Check out our MOTHER pages to learn more about each issue.)

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