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Single Moms Are Destroying Sweet, Sweet Idaho

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13 2007 9:00 AM

Submitted by FearTheReaper. Edited By erin_broadley.

TAGS: Idaho House of Representatives Family Task Force, Rep. Steven Thayn

These days it is difficult to think about Idaho without conjuring up images of violent youth dashing madly through their towns and cities. And when one thinks of those violent youth, one will undoubtedly then think of the single mothers who raised them. It is simply the obvious conclusion, especially if you are a fucking moron.

Turns out the Idaho House of Representatives Family Task Force is chalk full of morons. Personally, I love a good Family Task Force. Family Task Forces are the bedrock of our society, without them we would just be a bunch of animals raping and killing each other.

Let�s meet them! The Family Task Force is made up of Rep. Dick Harwood, Rep. Janice McGeachin, Rep. Marv Hagedorn, Rep. Branden Durst, Rep. Dean Mortimer and Rep. Steven Thayn. Notice there is only one lady on the Task Force. That will make more sense as we continue.

Thayn is a true nut. He is a freshman lawmaker who raised eight kids on his farm. They were all home schooled and we can only imagine, not well adjusted. Thayn has some fantastic ideas about how things should be going in our country.

Last year he suggested that Idaho reduce school hours to four a day � to save money. Turns out, he is not big on school and you can read all about it on the website of The Committee of Correspondence, a group Thayn started. I have looked at it several times and I really don�t know what the fuck is going on. I did manage to learn that they hate school.

In the future the grandchildren of the public school students of today, if families still exist, will tell stories about the state sending out yellow buses 5 days per week to collect the children to take them to detention centers for 7 hours every day to indoctrinate them in the state mandated way of thinking. The grandchildren of the future will listen in horror and ask, �Didn�t the parents love their children?�

So fucking true. And that's not all.

We have become state slaves, going to work everyday to pay the tax liability we incurred during the night while we slept. We will know that we have free nation when the government at all levels requires 10% or less of our income. This is our goal. If the state did not traffic in mercy (helping the poor) or in education, the taxes would fall to this level.

Right on. Fuck mercy and screw education. Just thinking about them makes my blood boil � but only because the government is involved.

Then there is this email that Thayn allegedly sent out.

Hunger is not always a negative as the report indicates. Without hunger or the threat of hunger probably half of humanity would not get up in the morning and go to work. Hunger is one of the great motivators of humanity. It is one of the tools that I used as a parent to encourage my children to do their choirs [sic] as young children. When used properly, hunger can motivate people so they can experience the joy of work and accomplishment.

Hello. I have a new favorite douche bag to keep an eye on. This guy is a treasure chest full of jackassery. I believe I will be writing many more stories about Steven before my days at SG end.

Thayn is, not surprisingly, the Chairman of the Idaho House of Representatives' Family Task Force. They believe that drug abuse, crime and domestic violence are the result of families breaking down and they want to figure out a way to get mothers back in the home and out of the workplace.

In one of the articles I read, quite a large percentage of mothers really do want to spend more time at home, and if that's the case, what can we do to help them?

Um, change the entire socio-economic structure of America? But they have found the perfect family to emulate: The 1950s American family. Although, Thayn does recognize it was not perfect.

I don't think the family structure was really ideal at that time, either. I don't think the family ever in the history of the world has reached its potential.

Someone is speaking the truth. Not until the family can shed its human form, come together in a ball of pure energy and shoot straight up to the Lord will it have achieved its �full potential.� Right now, we are far, far away from that glorious day.

According to the task force, single parent homes (moms) are causing rates of drug use and crime to shoot up, though, people living out of wedlock and divorce are also to blame.

Thayn believes that reducing divorces could save the state $200 million because the crime rate would drop if divorces dropped. He thinks making it more difficult to get divorced would help families avoid what he sees as the pitfalls of non-traditional families.

Right. It would only take one a couple of hours perusing the state budget to see that if there were less divorces in Idaho, that would mean $200 fucking million. It�s called math. After blowing minds with that obvious statistic, the Task Force came up with an obvious solution: End no fault divorce. Make the husband or wife prove they deserve a divorce.

"Divorce is just terrible," Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, said. "It's one of Satan's best tools to kill America."

Heyoooo. I thought Thayn was our crazy guy. Welcome to the party, dick. (Yeah, I didn�t capitalize that.)

Some lawmakers in Idaho believe the solution is not forcing people to stay married, but rather to strengthen day care regulations and make pre-schooling part of public schools. The task force disagrees.

Thayn does not shy from this view, calling pre-kindergarten education a "free babysitting service" and suggesting that early childhood education, day-care and Head Start may hurt families by keeping mothers away from home.

Also, ladies, why are you talking directly to me and looking me in the eyes?

Idaho is big on privacy and probably won�t go for the Task Force�s incredible forward thinking ideas but at least there are guys like Thayn to remind us there is always someone worse out there.

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Coyotemike

Kearney, NE

May 2006

NOV 13, 2007 09:14 AM

He uses hunger to get his kids to do their chores? Umm, child-abuse anyone? Great person to elect to office there, Idaho.

RileyStClair

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

NOV 13, 2007 09:17 AM

chock full

not chalk full.
lol.

Colinism

Atlanta, GA

July 2005

NOV 13, 2007 09:18 AM

FTR Why do you hate mothers? Obviously the right for women to choose their own destiny was given to them by Satan himself as a way to breed more sinners. Once we get women back in the homes as god intends the world will be a much better place.

Just in case someone thought that was anything but sarcasm. I'm actually afraid to read the links you posted here at work because if they are as bad as I suspect I will be stuck thinking about that all day and unable to be a good slave to the state......

Chriztian

Tallahassee, FL

September 2004

NOV 13, 2007 09:21 AM

The Bible Belt is getting hitched up rather high, isn't it?
But wait, they said less taxes...Ron Paul 2008!!

RileyStClair

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

NOV 13, 2007 09:22 AM

Chriztian said:
But wait, they said less taxes...Ron Paul 2008!!

now you're talking!

Poe

SUICIDEGIRL

Texas, USA

NOV 13, 2007 09:47 AM

Haha I love your articles, FTR. They bring me such joy.

artpie

Winston Salem, NC

December 2003

NOV 13, 2007 09:49 AM

Interesting... Within all that insanity I find a 'nut" of wisdom. i.e., If parents (single or otherwise) were able to spend more time at home, participating in the education & social upbringing of their children we might see less of a dissociative youth culture.

Hmmm? Of course! It must be the fault of the Yellow Bus gulags and those Pinkos at all the Head Start programs! Or maybe, if those whiney single mothers would have just sucked it up & stayed in some miserable marriage like Rep. Thayn's wife (who probably spends way too much time feeding her brats... "Why won't you just stop coddling them woman!") today's kids wouldn't be so disenfranchised.

No... it couldn't have anything to do with being a kid in an underfunded public school system where Pizza Hut runs the cafeteria and your teacher makes less than the average construction worker and then waiting for your mother to come home at 11pm after a shift at her other part time job with no benefits or chance of advancement because the manager is too busy looking at her tits to realize that she's trying not to default on the sub-prime loan that was her only option to try and buy the house that she now is away from 18 out of every 24 hours working for tips at Chili's or doing a "clean up in aisle 3" of the local MEGA-WALMART because every family owned business in her little podunk Idaho town was buried by some franchise.

Fuck! Why does Satan have such a huge tool box?

At least now I know what "tools" he keeps in the top drawer.

TheWriter

Fort Worth, TX

June 2006

NOV 13, 2007 09:54 AM

Idaho, until you rethink who you're electing to the House of Representatives, you are officially On Notice.

As for those of you who didn't vote, you're simply Dead to Me.

ericwine

Charlotte Hall, MD

January 2007

NOV 13, 2007 09:59 AM

Proposed new state motto for Idaho:

"Too many Bibles, too much time on our hands"

46n2

Tomball, TX

April 2006

NOV 13, 2007 10:03 AM

I disagree with a lot of this and then find very tiny things I do agree with. Though, I am a lot less up the dems. ass like a lot of people my age. I do agree with this excerpt:
"We have become state slaves, going to work everyday to pay the tax liability we incurred during the night while we slept. We will know that we have free nation when the government at all levels requires 10% or less of our income."

but not the last sentence which I left out of the copy and paste.

I also can see a point about hunger but it was expressed poorly. I don't want anyone to go hungry but I can see where it might motivate people to work if they didn't think they could get welfare and food stamps for all the kids they keep irresponsibily popping out.

Basically, I'm for smaller government and for people to take care of themselves and stop waiting for hand-outs.

This guys wasn't very smart but I also think he could have been critiqued in a more meaningful way instead of all the jokes and sarcasm which fail to truly address what issues might actually be there and then to counter-offer a solution.

Zarth

Seattle, WA

December 2004

NOV 13, 2007 10:07 AM

Chriztian said:
The Bible Belt is getting hitched up rather high, isn't it?

What can you expect from the Northwest Territorial Imperative?

Idaho is a Red State's Red State.

Chainlink

Christmas Island

August 2005

NOV 13, 2007 10:10 AM

TheWriter said:
Idaho, until you rethink who you're electing to the House of Representatives, you are officially On Notice.

As for those of you who didn't vote, you're simply Dead to Me.

Says the guy from Texas.

lioness4

Rock Island, IL

May 2005

NOV 13, 2007 10:14 AM

Yes, I can see how the crime rate might be reduced if we were forced to spend the rest of our lives with someone we didn't want to be married to. And I can totally see how proving in a court of law that thier father was abusive just so i could leave the marriage would have benifitted my children, instead of that no fighting no fault divorce we got. Although I guess it doesn't really matter, since they are both destined to become drugged-out criminals.
Wow, i really can't even wrap my head around the idiocy of this.

RileyStClair

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

NOV 13, 2007 10:15 AM

46n2 said:
. I do agree with this excerpt:
"We have become state slaves, going to work everyday to pay the tax liability we incurred during the night while we slept. We will know that we have free nation when the government at all levels requires 10% or less of our income."

um, are you mental? you realize that we are taxed on income, right? you only incur tax liability while you sleep if your business or investments are generating income. taxes aren't the bogeyman. without them we'd be fucked. allocation of tax revenues, of course, is another issue entirely.

Zarth

Seattle, WA

December 2004

NOV 13, 2007 10:15 AM

Chainlink said:

TheWriter said:
Idaho, until you rethink who you're electing to the House of Representatives, you are officially On Notice.

As for those of you who didn't vote, you're simply Dead to Me.

Says the guy from Texas.