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01/22/2009: "Been Workin So Hard Out Washing My Car #6"

The President is talking about being neighborhood people, so I hope to get out the word for the need of community centers for every community. Maybe he can help make this happen.
Think about this scenario--A wife realizes her husband is still not home from work so she starts to fear what will happen when he finally makes it home. He's obviously at the bar again, the drinking doesn't stop until he's wasted. The wife calls the community center to come and pick up the kids where they will stay until it's safe to go back home. If the kids were there when he finally gets home he would have started yelling at them and finds some excuse to smack them around. Since they are safe at the community center they are getting help with their homework, getting something to eat, and are able to have fun in the dancing room, getting their exercise, while their dad calmly goes to bed and passes out. The mom only needs to call the community center and her children are delivered back home.
The safe haven of the community center would be open 24 hours a day to all who need help from time to time. It's run entirely on donations from the community. If we take care of all children from the moment they are born and provide a safe place for them while their parents are dealing with the day to day struggles of providing for them, we'll have a lot more well adjusted members of society instead of all the people who fall through the cracks and fill our courtrooms and prisons because their parents didn't have the help they needed. More later, "Let's All Dance."