Who Said It?

“We’ve got to eliminate programs that don’t work, and we’ve got to make sure that the programs that we do have are more efficient and cost less.”

Give up?

Yup, that was Barack F. Obama.

Guess he needs to take a look at Head Start. Although my son says I can't say it, this is an epic fail kind of deal.

Head Start is one of those liberal darling programs. It's really hard to be against a program that tries to help improve the education of disadvantaged kids. On paper it makes some degree of sense.

Just one little problem: IT DOESN'T WORK.

This is typical of most (indeed, arguably ALL) liberal programs - they are well-intentioned efforts to fix a recognized societal problem. Head Start didn't make things worse, at least. That's normally what happens.

This report should kill Head Start, because after 40 years it's obvious it doesn't work. But it won't.

The same analysis applies to Medicare. Time to start over.