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Politicians Who Don't Care " About the Children"

Robert Samuelson reports:

The big lie of campaign 2008 -- so far -- is that the presidential

candidates, Democratic and Republican, will take care of our

children. Listening to these politicians, you might think they

will. Doing well by children has now passed Motherhood and Apple

Pie as an idol that all candidates must worship.

"We will do whatever it takes to make America a better country, to

give our kids a better future," says Mike Huckabee, winner of the

Republican Iowa caucuses.

"We will deliver for our children, our grandchildren and our

great-grandchildren," claims Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic

winner.

"We're going to reclaim the future for our children," says

Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Actually, these are throwaway lines, completely disconnected from

reality.

Our children face a future of rising taxes, squeezed -- and perhaps

falling -- public services, and aging -- perhaps deteriorating --

public infrastructure (roads, sewers, transit systems). Today's

young workers and children are about to be engulfed by a massive