Should I Open a Daycare?
It might just depend on your State, as well as your state of mind. Ask Ayn.
An occasional feature with our friend, Ayn Landers. Paid subscribers are invited to put their questions in the comments.
Dear Ayn,
I am currently “between jobs,” as they say and have been (ahem) light on funds looking for work for the past few years. (My inability to describe my past efforts and future plans to advance diversity goals was a barrier to further University employment.) I was reading in the news about how lucrative the day-care sector is in some states — with some daycare owners even able to support family abroad with their income. Entrepreneurial opportunity for an out-of-work professor? I have experience in the teaching arts. WDYT?
Curiously,
Shirley Working
Dear S.W.,
Before I answer, I have two questions for you.
One, are you a citizen of the United States?
Two, are you able to travel for this position?
The honest truth upfront, from where I sit in the great collectivist paradise of California, is that operating a day-care is filled with hurdles: licensing and inspections, background checks and criminal record clearance, educational requirements, space and size requirements for both indoor and outdoor areas (which may include the need for fencing and separation between age groups). Also: record keeping of immunization, TB clearance and other health screenings, personnel records, emergency and disaster plans, daily operation plans. You’ll be required to strictly adhere to government food-handling rules and keep records of food served. And of course, you’ll need to keep records of attendance, pick-ups-drop-offs.
Doable, but lucrative? It’s unclear.
What I have heard is that elsewhere — in states like Minnesota — these businesses are up and running without a care! What the videos seem to show is that they simply occupy spots in strip malls, put up a sign, request money from the government, process that money, and then wait for the children to show up — for years, it seems? If you build it, they will come, right?
One caveat, you might want to first take a little precautionary step and move to a faraway country, say, a small embattled nation that many are fleeing. While there, as a matter of course, renounce your U.S. citizenship, and after a time, try requesting asylum to the United States. (Didn’t they used to have a helpful app for that?) You might have to wait out a new U.S. government to take shape again, but if the old rules will fall back into place, you may see additional bonuses apply on your return: free hotel rooms, assistance with travel, and food allotments?
I am not sure, but rumor has it that’s the way things were working…
And, if things don’t fall back into place, you know what? You’ll be able to go back to your employer and show you have been working for their diversity goals. Your resume will now include time as a non-citizen in a far-away place making a difference by endangering your life.
And if that doesn’t work, well, here in California, they’ve been documenting a far greater return than Minnesota’s daycare dollars in a variety of lucrative businesses-in-progress. Such as pretending to solve homelessness: The CA State Auditor found Gov. Newsom lost track of $24 billion in homelessness funds. Or pretending to help job-seekers: The same source found $32 billion in unemployment fraud. You can try pretending to build bullet trains: $16 billion and still zero train track after 30 years here in CA. And there is always, simply, pretending to go to work: One government employee was getting a $171,446 salary 15 months after leaving the job.
Shirley, I do believe you can find a way to fund yourself. It takes a little loosening of the old ethical framework, but with perseverance and a little bit of magical thinking, anything is possible.
Dreamers, see also: New York.
And with regard to that flag at the top of this story, yes, it’s evocative!
Buon viaggio!
Ayn
CA congressman Kevin Kiley reported yesterday that over 1/3 of all CA junior college applications are fraudulent & used to scam financial aid. Probably easier than opening a daycare (or maybe do both!).
Next question - why is the mainstream media pretty much silent on everything going on with the epic disclosure of fraud and abuse of social programs? Anyone who is slightly curious and reading substack or twitter is starting to see the scale of the fraud. But "normies" watching CNN or reading the WSJ don't have a clue. Why?