Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
There are 300 million people in the country and those Nasty Evil Republicans who implemented the sequester plan devised by John Kerry’s Super-friends Super-committee cruelly will afflict 57,000 children who can’t go to Head Start this Fall.
The article lists the complaints. No free daycare. No free dental screening. No free lunch.Wait a minute, I thought Head Start was intended to give poor kids a leg up so they could compete academically. If it’s just another welfare program that affects a vanishingly small percentage of Americans, and those only because of hard policy choices made by a bi-partisan committee hand-picked by the President . . . what’s the problem?
But wait, it’s not only kids who are affected. 57,000 kids account for 18,000 government-funded jobs to be cut or reduced, a ratio of 1-3. That’s W-A-Y better than the ratio of Maria to the Van Trapp kids, and they managed to learn somehow anyway, during the war even.
Joe Doakes
But Julie Andrews paid no union dues, so nobody cares…
And it doubtless would be raciss to note that Head Start doesn’t actually provide any benefit to its recipients… http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2081778,00.html#ixzz1UqSuspUQ
The sequestration budget cuts that are considered a blunder by most economists and analysts (at least the ones I respect). These are mindless across the board budget cuts that are hurting the economy – and probably not helping with deficit reduction in the long run.
http://oregoneconomicanalysis.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/the-sequester-impact/
Sequestration budget cuts are not really cuts. Hence the White House is able to install more solar panels.
If the sequestration cuts are too onerous, I propose a budget with no cuts.
A freeze. Total spending is frozen at 2013 level but management can shift it around wherever they like.
That’s not a cut, it’s a freeze. Happy now?
The sequestration budget cuts that are considered a blunder by most economists and analysts (at least the ones I respect).
Yet another one of the ways that Obama is wrecking the economy. *sigh*
If we ended the sequestration budget cuts, then there would be a better chance that the Fed could taper and end QE3 sooner rather than later. Dumb policy is hurting the country right now …
Wait a minute; wouldn’t Julie Andrews have been in the SAG? :^)
Seriously, not only does Head Start provide no academic benefit to its victims, the nutritional aid is also making them prone to obesity, and the daycare aid is (sorry) giving parents time to create more Head Start participants instead of working.