Going over the Cliff

[ordnance11]

Now that i have that out of my system, Ordinance i've been trying to
find a way to phrase my answer to the Talladega head start issue that
didnt make me seem like a heartless son of bitch, unfortunately i've
failed. Question for those parents and single mothers; Since your kid
had to be three to go into head start, WHAT DID YOU DO BEFORE THEN? and
for the program itself, get other funding, ask for the local churches to
make donations, local businesses as well, Talladega Raceway is great
about making donations for programs like that, dont base your entire
budget on a government largess that might have to GO AWAY.

Leaving aside the cold heartless comment, you're falling into a fallacy most people have. You're making the assumption, churches, charitable organizations, et al. will pick up the slack, and they have unlimited money to do so. Right now, charitable contributions had fallen way off since the Great Recession. And the need is just as great right now as during the Great Recession.   So basing it on private charities, that would just as hard hit by economic conditions would make the situation worse, not better.
And the HeadStart program I would not call government largess. I call it an important program to keep the working poor out of welfare. Because if these folks are not helped in this fashion, that is what they are going to be. On welfare. And now you're spending more money on them than you would have if you had HeadStart. Talledaga County isn't precisely rolling in rich folks who gladly tithe their incomes to the charities either. I should know, since I am familiar with that area. The biggest city in the area is Anniston, Al., in the next county over. That city's biggest employer is the federal government. And if the federal budget had been made on a clean resolution that it would not have to go away.
Raivik, I keep thinking you would have been happy during the Gilded Age.  But I would recommend works by Upton Sinclair and other muckrakers of that era to show just how bad working conditions were in those times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckracker ... heir_works
And if you think those conditions won't come back, I didn't think indentured servitude no longer existed in this country either. But there was a case in Louisiana involving Filipino teachers recently that is just that:
 http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Corporate-Gr ... t-Decision
 
 
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