Head Start Program
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Perhaps the single most important day care program is the Head Start program. So well-respected is it that even the Reagan administration wanted to retain it (1985 Model Child Care Standards Act). The program, begun by Democrats as a child care and ghetto improvement program, appeals to a Republican because it seeks to ameliorate the effects of poverty by providing the food and education poverty robs the child of. The "head start" for the impoverished child actually is designed to put the child closer to an equal footing with the child who can take food and education for granted. This being the case, that the current government isn't as willing to fund Head Start nationwide is somewhat surprising. A program like Head Start is expensive, but one could respond that a B-1 bomber is even more expensive. National defense is a matter of choices; while the government in the past few decades has been focusing on the external threats, the internal threats to the security of the United States have all but been ignored. Consequently, the war with the Soviet Union was essentially won in 1989, while the war on poverty and the war on drugs were lost because the government was unwilling (or unable) to commit the needed resources for change and education. These two problems alone, security and providing for the children, are serious enough problems that the government ought to be willing to intervene in order to guarantee that its children will grow up nutritiously well-fed and prepar
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l we implement a program on the behalf of our citizens while also becoming responsible with the other people's money that we have been borrowing and spending over the past few decades? How will we feed our people while providing for the future?
The primary selling point of this or any food allotment program has to be that it is providing for our future. The current thinking in Congress is that "providing for the future" means paying off debts incurred by previous administrations. This is an interesting reworking of the word "providing" since to provide usually entails an expense. However, using the politicians own thinking, we can begin providing for the future by paying off the debt of food and sustenance owed to them, our children, and approving a greater expenditure to more adequately feed those who do not have adequate food.
Since the effect of the government's borrowing has been essentially to have the children pay for what the adult's consumed, the fair answer would be to have the adults now pay for what the children consume. That is to say, what prosperity purchased, was purchased with borrowed money. Therefore, since the children cannot borrow money (but should be provided for by their elders), their food can be paid
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Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page)
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