President Obama in his State of the Union address made many proposals more infrastructure spending ,free preschool for all and many others. Now not all of them were spending proposals such as his plea for more gun control but most would cost something. He urged the Republicans to get on board and support his plans for the country stating that he figured out how to do all these things without increasing the deficit.
Now we could debate the merits of each individual proposal but we can't make things up. When you have this many new programs and you haven't been able to balance the budget before this how are we supposed to believe that all of a sudden the deficit will remain unchanged.
I call BS either he is a liar or a fool or thinks the American people are fools.
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cutting programs for the poor is not the only way to decrease the deficit.
ReplyDeletei was more shocked by his seeming confusion of correlation with causation when he talked about the benefits of preschool programs. just because preschool program enrollment and certain long-term benefits correlate doesn't mean the preschool programs _caused_ those benefits. the last research i saw, which i admit has been many a year ago, head start kids did better than kids not enrolled but gains disappeared by 3rd grade.
i don't object to preschool programs, (tho i do object to mandatory enrollment) but i see them more as an advantage for parents who want to return to the work force and a good experience for children who lack any enrichment in their homes than as a long-term benefit to the child.