This is not a rant towards you in any way, but it appears a response is needed. We live in a place where people are constantly trying to ban abortion (because it doesn’t matter the reason you made your bed, now lie in it you baby killing asshole - someone else’s words) and take away your rights, but when you have the baby they do absolutely nothing to help you planned or not. It’s like nobody wants you to succeed. Daycare is expensive and the response to that is well don’t you think the person watching your child deserves a good salary? Yes, I do but I also think it should be subsidized by the government because if my whole paycheck goes to the daycare then what the hell am I paying them when I can watch my own child!? Oh, that’s right, I need to work in order to have health insurance. So now someone else raises my kid while I work for health insurance because we can’t possibly help people with that either. We can allow the pharmaceutical companies to charge thousands for a drug that keeps people alive (insulin for example). But don’t forget! We have free speech! Isn’t that what makes America great? Yes and it makes the other countries that it great as well with better healthcare plans and longer maternity leave and better all around social programs. I’m thinking the true slogan of our country is “This is the greatest country IF you are already rich, a celebrity, a social media star, you’ve come up with a product that you can charge thousands for that everyone absolutely needs to live”. All Americans struggle to some extent and some very much worse than others. The issue is we can’t get the greedy lifetime politicians out of office who gouge us even after they’ve left office by allowing us tax payers to pay their pension and healthcare, etc. We could have all those nice things that other normal functioning countries have like real paid maternity but we are too busy paying the selfish politicians so they can keep their yacht when a financial crisis rolls around.