In his recent State
of the Union message, President Obama has proposed a pedagogical initiative for
preschoolers … a Super Head Start Program if you will.
(See: Breitbart Article). This mandatory (babysitting?) program would involve
the federal government matching state funds in order to send children age four
and up to preschool … on the governments’ dime … and with Big Brother's oversight and controls. Here is the
meaningful quote from the above article:
Qualifications for the funding include: teachers would have to hold
college degrees in certain categories related to education, restrictions on
class size, and a government-approved curriculum.
The catch-term
for intrusive government used to be called “cradle to grave.” Now, since our Solons have determined that they have a lot to say about whether a baby gets born, it really is now “womb to
tomb.” I don’t know about you but I am
really beginning to think George Orwell was a major prophet when he wrote his
books, Animal Farm and 1984.
I still recall, in my callow youth, a certain dismay at seeing how Russia and China were taking over the rearing
of small children at the height of these countries' ideological frenzies … in order to
indoctrinate them into the ways of the State. Now
its our turn.
I can’t
leave this blog post without repeating one last quote from Our Dear Leader in
this same speech to Congress: “Let me repeat – nothing I’m proposing tonight
should increase our deficit by a single dime.”
Joesph Goebbels was right: “If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes
the truth.”
