U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has rolled out a health plan that would help provide universal child care. The proposal would create a federal program that establishes a network of public and family-run centers.

The care would be free for families with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty level (about $51,500 for a family of four) and those earning more would pay a subsidized fee based on their income, with no households shelling out more than 7 percent of their income.

Experts estimate  her child care initiative would cost the federal government $700 billion over 10 years which begs the question, how do we pay for that?

Tax the wealthy! (Please raise your hand if you think that will work) Other than being a far-fetched idea, it sounds eerily like another campaign promise regarding a certain border wall (whose going to pay for it? Mexico!).

While I applaud anyone trying to improve health care, fixing the immigration system and tackling any of the other hundreds of issues facing our country (roads, education, trade), throwing out ideas that are dead on a arrival are of very little help. This may play to her base (very much like the border wall plays to Trump’s base), but has about as much of a chance of working as me winning the lotto.

It feels that, when it comes to politics, the pendulum swings from left to right (or right to left depending on the year). Playing to the hard core case leaves out a very important segment of America, those in the middle looking for common ground and solutions that have a chance.

I would like to see the pendulum slow down and little and let America catch her breath.