Candice Bergen - Bullying **Shouldn't** Be a Government Responsibility!

Government shouldn't back a national anti-bullying strategy. "This problem is best dealt with at the most local level, by people who are in the core, who are closest to it. Our schools, our communities, our health, education and law enforcement professionals," she said. Communities and schools are in the best position to identify risk factors and what vulnerable children and teens have to deal with, as well as the solutions, she added.

• She's right and wrong. Both are important. "Murphy Brown" was a big leftist program, and I say that in the best possible way. Remember when they used the show, Republicans, as the poster child for the evils of single women having kids? It was back during the early 90s.

• She's probably right that implementation is best done at the local level. However, since this fucked-up country is full of right wingers loons who oppose anti-bullying initiatives because they hate us SO MUCH, it will take federal involvement to make sure something is done in every community.

• Why doesn't cunt OP post a link so we can read her comment in full context?

• Has Murphy Brown now turned into a right-wing old goat?

• Bullying is one of those crimes that should be dealt with at a local level -- but so was racism, and nothing much happened with that until it was handled on a federal level.

• The government's job is to deliver the clear message that bullying is wrong so local officials can enforce the message and the laws that come with it and those local officials better get on with the program, or else ... Only when local officials go rogue or it's up to them and their personal unresolved issues you get 'MAN UP! Getting picked on builds character!'.

• Who asked fatty fat fat her opinion on anything?

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• You're comparing bullying to segregation, r5? Candace is right. If anything, bullying should be dealt with a the family level. The family need to take some responsibilities for how their children behave. r4 way too partisan. Not everything is a right/left issue.

• I'll bet lots of the Manson family members were bullied at school. Close call, wasn't it Candy?

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• Can anyone find a link?

• We've been duped by the OP. This is Candice Bergen, the Conservative MP of Canada. Not the actress. My comment still stands though.

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/10/15/pol-live-anti-bullying-motion-mp-debate.html

• Canada? What is that?

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• This too just in from Hollywood, Jane Seymour has died in royal childbirth.