neo cons trying to kill Head Start (the dumbing down of america)

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/06/06/ale06074.html

Domestic Spending Cuts Threaten Head Start

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

With hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on the war in Iraq, budget shortfalls are plaguing many important programs here at home. Among those impacted is Head Start.

Head Start is a federally funded child development program that has served 20 million Americans since 1965. About one million children are enrolled in nearly 50,000 classrooms.

However, Sarah Greene, president of the National Head Start Association, warned today in a media event that budget cuts are creating “an alarming downward spiral trend” in services. Last year Congress imposed a one percent cut on Head Start Programs despite rapidly growing expenses, creating a “vice-like cost squeeze.”

“Unless proper funding is made available and further cuts are suspended,” Greene continued, there will be “widespread program shutdowns and unacceptably severe cuts in service.”

To learn more about Head Start and how to help, go to http://www.saveheadstart.org.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
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neo cons don't like children - proof is all over america, Afghanistan and Iraq

[xxqqqzme]

1. Love the fetus - hate the child

Both my children were Head Start students; in an old one room schoolhouse in extremely rural West Virginia Appalachia. My daughter now teaches 3 & 4 year olds primarily because of the wonderful teacher(who, as a child, had attended that one room school) she had in Head Start. I volunteered many hours @ that old schoolhouse. Head Start is one of the most successful education programs 2 serve both urban and rural children.

[blondeatlast]

2. Head Start is one government program that has exceptionally positive,

proven results. Among fair-minded analysts of both political stripes, it is used as a shining example of how government works to strengthen society.

Therefore it must be destroyed by the "drown in a bathtub" gang.

After all, it's only the children who suffer, right? :sarcasm:

Thanks for bringing this to our attention--K&R.

[blondeatlast]

3. This baby desperately needs a kick.

Please, DU, this is so important.

[calimary]

4. Okay, I'll kick. It IS important that people see this.

I'm recommending it, too.

[Monkeyman]

5. Dum dowm America

The only way the repulgs win

[Uncle Joe]

6. Yes, donsu the dumbing down of America is in high gear.

It's all relative if the people are ignorant, then the mob in power look more intelligent. This is in line with their goal of shrinking the middle class and turning us in to a nation of a few mega rich, a small middle class and predominately poor. I believe this is the neocon solution to competing on a global level with the third world where they make far less money. As opposed to lifting the people up, the Republicans in control are intent on tearing the nation down.

[smoogatz]

7. Today Head Start, tomorrow the New Deal.

God forbid the government should ever spend any of my tax dollars to help anybody besides rich white people.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. What do you think the Bell Curve was all about?

Those shameless sons of bitches were trying to use pseudo-science to prove it was not cost-effective to help minority kids because they were genetically inferior. I hope they burn in hell.

[blondeatlast]

11. I would not have believed you a couple of years ago, but after reading

"The Republican Noise Machine," I put absolutely nothing past the heartless bastards.

There is an ugly thread that meanders through everything they do and ties it all together.

[countingbluecars]

9. No Child Left Behind

my ass!

[blondeatlast]

10. Kick again. This is the opening salvo on the War to Increase Poverty,

especially among minorities.

[donsu]

12. ignorant people are dangerous

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