I feel so frustrated that we didn’t deliver more, that when we had the opportunity, we didn’t deliver more. And frankly, when we got into those elections, that we didn’t lay out a more ambitious agenda, more was needed. Damn, I wrote that book, “Two-Income Trap,” what has it been now, 20 blah, blah, years ago, I wrote it at a time when I talked about how I couldn’t get child care 25 years before that, how I almost ended up not being able to go to school, not being able to finish my education, and ultimately quitting my first job. I was literally on the floor in the kitchen, crying on the phone to my Aunt Bee because I didn’t have child care, I didn’t have child care. And there I am, 22 years later, with my daughter, who has her first baby, who’s on the phone crying, trying to hold down a job. And her problem is she can’t get child care. And now here I am. My granddaughter is going to be out there. And it looks like for her, there are no better prospects for child care than there were for her mama or for her grandmama. Am I proud? No, I am furious. This is a problem we should have solved long ago.
