Buried in a Washington Post story about Herman Cain calling Nancy Pelosi, “Princess Nancy” is a new policy idea that Pelosi has been pitching recently during her short tour through California.
“One of the great pieces of unfinished business is high-quality child care; I wonder why we just can’t do that,’’ she recently said to a California audience.
By “we”, Pelosi means the federal government. Pelosi clarified that Congress should be “doing for child care what we did for health-care reform.”
The Post characterizes Pelosi as touting the economic and social benefits of government child-sitting:
When it comes to “unleashing women” in a way that would boost the economy, she says, “this is a missing link.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-wants-a-federal-babysitting-service-2011-11
According to Pelosi, the babysitting market — one of the last unregulated sectors of the American economy — is broken.
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