‘Julia Decides to Have a Child’

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Weekly Standard:

One aspect of President Obama's philosophically revealing — and mock-worthy — "Julia" web ad doesn't seem to have garnered as much attention as one might have expected. Just as Julia's life of government dependency isn't likely to inspire a new set of books along the lines of the celebration of self-reliance and freedom depicted in the Little House on the Prairie series, her romantic life isn't likely to spawn any sequels to Jane Austen novels.

 

Julia, of course, is the fictional subject of the newly released Obama ad. She leads a rather bland, conformist, and dependent life — a life more reminiscent of the centrally planned lives in Brave New World than of the vibrant lives led by so many Americans from the founding generation, through the era of Abraham Lincoln and Huckleberry Finn, to the present day. Throughout the ad, we’re shown what Julia is doing at various points in her life with the help of the Obama administration's myriad regulations and taxpayer-funded federal programs.

When Julia, who never entirely seems to grow out of childhood in her own right, hits the age of 31, we are told that she "decides to have a child."

This is peculiar phrasing. There's no mention of Julia having first decided to get married, and no mention of Julia's husband — or even of her dating anyone — in any of the snippets shown from any of the stages of her life. Perhaps the ad simply doesn't mention Julia having gotten married because it was one of the few noteworthy events in her life that didn't involve the active assistance of the federal government.

 

Still, it would be a rather strange choice to convey Julia's and her husband's (or even her boyfriend's) desire to start a family by using the phrase, "Julia decides to have a child." Who would say this? Nor does the ad suggest that Julia has found herself in an unenviable predicament and is now simply trying to do the right thing — it doesn't say, "Having unexpectedly gotten pregnant, Julia decides to have the child."

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The Heritage Foundation

How Can We Provide a Better Life for Julia?

 

Her name is “Julia,” and if you haven’t seen her, she’s a colorful cartoon character invented by the Obama campaign to help spread the message of how women will “benefit” under the president’s policies. What it shows instead, though, is the president’s vision of America — that individuals need the federal government at each stage of their life, and that he deserves credit for making our lives even better.

In Julia’s story, as depicted in a cartoon slideshow, a faceless young American woman grows from birth to old age with the government at her side every step of the way. In the good times and the bad times, government is there to lift Julia up — and without government, Julia could not succeed in life.

This disturbing depiction of the president’s governing philosophy begins when Julia turns 3, at which time she is enrolled in the federally funded Head Start pre-school program. “Because of steps President Obama has taken to improve programs like this one, Julia joins thousands of students across the country who will start kindergarten ready to learn and succeed,” the cartoon explains. Never mind that Head Start is a proven failure. Despite Washington spending more than $167 billion on the program, a recent government study shows it has had no lasting benefits.

But this is only the beginning. According to the cartoon, thanks to President Obama’s policies, Julia is prepared for college, can afford to pay for college, has free health care, can repay for her student loans, enjoys free birth control, can have a child and give him a good education, can start a new business and hire employees, and can comfortably retire to a life of volunteering at a community garden. From birth to death, President Obama wants the federal government to carry Julia on its shoulders, and he wants to take credit for all the blessings of a life well-lived. That’s the liberal vision of America.

What’s missing from this picture? The harm that big government policies inflict on people like Julia. From the moment of birth, thanks to Washington’s thirst for more spending, Read More http://www.askherita...life-for-julia/

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‘Julia Decides to Have a Child’

 

 

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