The life of a helpless twat

The Obama campaign has a slideshow following the life of a (please, dear God, let this be) fictional woman named Julia.  The slideshow is supposed to demonstrate how much better life would be for women under another reign term under Obama. 

It starts at three, with how Head Start gets small children ready for school, and how Obama is committed to helping every three year old get ahead like that, while evil Romney would cut funding for Head Start programs.

Okay, couple things with this: headstart is neither necessary nor useful for long, if at all, in a home with two parents, where Mom or Dad stays home (or has family nearby to help out), where Mom and Dad both value and emphasize the value of hard work and education, and where Mom and Dad both read (both for fun and to the kids).  I understand that not every home has two parents (strike one against the kids' wellbeing), not every family is willing to make the sacrifice in crap for Mom (or Dad) to stay home and care for/teach the kids (strike two), and not every family values education and literacy (strike three--they're out).  However, even then, it's been demonstrated that headstart/preschool benefits don't last past third grade.

Next, we move to age seventeen, where it touts Obama's expensive, Race to the Top boondoggle, and how this allows poor, helpless Julia to take the classes she needs to get into college.  And evil Romney wants to cut funding for this, too!

Race to the Top, like every other top-down program imposed on the peons at the bottom, does not work.  The only thing it does is encourage teachers to cheat on the exams, and teach students how to cheat, and that it's okay to cheat.  They do this to get more funding for their school.  Cutting funding (and the program) isn't going to damage chances to get into college.  And even if it does damage some school districts, there is nothing saying that Julia is so f***ing helpless and stupid that she can't possibly get into college without someone wiping her nose for her.  There's also nothing saying that Julia's parents can't/won't/don't love her enough to move to a better school district.

Then, Julia is eighteen, and about to enter college!  But if the evil Romney is elected, she can't go to college, because there's no way she can pay for it herself!  Not without the government funding that Romney  would cut!!!

Yet more proof that her parents didn't really love her enough to care about her future.  Odysseus and I have started college savings accounts for both kids already.  By the time they get to the age where they're ready to go to college (or trade school, if that's what they prefer), they'll have the money to pay cash for it, without relying on the government.

Then, they bring Obamacare into it, when Julia is 22, and needs surgery--don'cha know that under Obamacare, she's still covered under Mom's insurance ('cause Dad still doesn't seem to be in the picture)?

Umm...22 year olds were still covered under parental insurance plans before Obamacare extended childhood to 26.  All the kid had to do was still be in college.  I think it actually went all the way to 23--insurers assumed that kids would be done with college and in the work world (and buying their own insurance) after four years, and adjusted ages accordingly, even for those born after the cutoff date for entry into any given year of school (i.e., six in kindergarten, and nineteen graduating high school, instead of five and eighteen).  Dumb assumption.  Because this stupid bint is still in college until she's 25.  Here's hoping she's at least got an MA, MS, or an MBA at this point. 

At least they assume she won't sink into occupidiocy, even though she's a helpless twat by their books: at 25, she's depicted as graduating, and about to start paying on her student loans.  And only Obama can keep the interest (and her payments) low enough for her to afford--the evil Romney would cut government spending there, too!

And, at least she got a real degree as a web designer to help her get a job. 

Next, Julia is 27, and somehow unable to afford the $30/month that birth control pills would cost, because only Obama can keep her from getting pregnant--the evil Romney won't make her employer pay for a luxury item. 

At 31, she's pregnant (again, no mention of a father for her baby, nor a husband to be a helpmeet to her), and only Obama can make sure she has a healthy pregnancy.  The evil Romney will abolish free medical care!!!

I've had two babies.  I paid cash for prenatal care and for delivery on both.  That wasn't cheap, I'll admit, but it also was less expensive than using insurance, and Odysseus and I had planned and saved for that eventuality.  With they way poor, silly, stupid Julia has been going along, I'd strongly suspect she doesn't know that she needs to plan for the future, and indeed, may have gotten pregnant because she didn't know how to prevent it--both birth control and condoms do have a small failure rate, when used correctly.

At 37, Julia's son will be entering public schools, which under Obama, have great facilities and teachers, but the evil Romney would cut the funding!!!

Except...somehow, education standards are sinking, despite having more money and more money thrown at the problem.  If Julia had a brain in her head and loved her son, she'd either have him in private school, or would be homeschooling him (assuming it's still legal at this point).

It goes on--at 42, she's starting her own business with loans offered by the Obama administration, which Romney would cut; at 65, she's starting on Medicaid (which might not be there with Romney--but won't with Obama, either); at 67, she's starting Social Security, which will pay for all her needs, and which Romney would abolish just because he's evil like that!!

Besides the obvious stupidity of, I don't know, ignoring that the money for all of this just isn't there, what scares the bat-shit out of me is that a) there actually are people out there to whom this sounds attractive, and b) Obama's been in fucking power for 64 years by the end of it.

I note there is nothing similar for John.  Why, because the Obamas don't care if he makes it or not, or because they assume he can make it without help because he's not a woman?