Why should the children suffer because of the lack of parenting ability, lack of money, lack of whatever? Here we go again, thinking with our hearts instead of our brains. When the government fills in for the parents, it only reinforces the "bad" behavior in the parents. If we teach the parents how to "do it right", we only have to pay once; otherwise we pay forever--or at least until the child turns 18. It's kind of like a job training program, which keeps you from having to pay for welfare forever.
I ask my usual questions of the socialists. Do you want people like those who run the TSA, or the DMV, in charge of your health care? You don't seem to like or trust George Bush or the Republican-controlled Congress, so why do you want them in charge of your health care? "I just think that..." is the usual response.
I've thought about anti-racist math, about using schools and students for social engineering, and then I read this story out of Los Angeles. Turns out that the city has spent quite a lot of money on keeping kids out of gangs, with not a lot to show for it. Those who think with their hearts will fe-e-e-e-e-l that if only they spent more money, at least one kid could be saved from a gang. Those of us who think with our heads wonder if they should continue to throw good money after bad:
Los Angeles spends $26 million a year to keep kids out of gangs or get them to renounce their affiliation, but the program is such a failure that not a single youth has ever been released from a court-imposed gang injunction, officials said Friday.
$26 million a year. Good job, social engineers.
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No politician ever got elected telling the constituency to take responsibility.
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California provides a valuable source of entertainment for the rest of the nation, and I am not talking about Hollywood.
Sadly the taxpayers of the state pay a high price for their politically "correct" and economically idiotic perspective and this also affects, in a negative way, the rest of the nation.
I predict the Meathead initiative will pass. The unions will figure the program works in their favor and throw in their support.
You'd think we'd be smart enough to learn from Europe's mistakes. But obviously we're not.
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