Jennifer King is on the board of directors of Head Start of Greater Dallas. She is upset that the sequester has dug into its funding. She said it has permanently (I'm not sure why she thinks it's permanent) lost the ability to "serve 360 low-income children in Dallas County." She says this loss of high-quality early childhood education, provided at no cost to eligible families, means parents must find other care, perhaps of a lesser quality and certainly at a higher cost.
There's that lie again -- at no cost. If it's truly at no cost, then a drop in funding won't be an issue, because no funding is required for something that doesn't cost anything. Anyway, what's so bad about a parent taking responsibility for his own children? Why should I be paying to provide "high-quality" programs for someone who has children he can't afford to properly care for? Why shouldn't he be the one to bear the "higher cost"? And why is he entitled to high-quality programs in the first place if he can afford only lower-quality ones?
Gimme, gimme, gimme!
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