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I wrote:
>  Can one of you please provide a reference for this claim that Head Start
>  is "pointless" and "wasteful" and "rediculous" [sic]?

jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) wrote:
>Under Head Start, costs have risen 1400%.  Teen pregnancy, high school
>drop outs, drug addiction, crime, etc. have also all risen.  These were
>all social ills that Head Start was supposed to correct.  Similiar
>negative results are seen with AFDC, Food Stamps, Welfare, etc.  The
>common theme is that if you permit people to become dependedent on the
>government for assistance, they will forget how to make it on their own.

No.  John.  You misread my request.  I said "reference."  What you just wrote
are not "references."

>There was an excellent article in the Conservative Chronicle which detailed
>the problems with Head Start.  ...  If you'd like to
>subscribe and get the straight dope on Head Start and other failed liberal
		       ^^^^^^^^
>programs, you can contact the Conservative Chronicle at (800) 888-3039.

The "Conservative Chronicle?"  "Straight?"  I would no sooner quote that
publication on something like the performance of Head Start than I would
cite Mao's Red Book on the glory of Communism.  Now if it was the NY Times
or the Washington Post or even the Austin American-Statesman..., it would
certainly be different.

Pardon me while I flame you, but all I've seen from you is mouthing off of
things that _you_ believe is true, with anecdotal evidences sprinkled along
the way, backed by quotes & studies & figures from that paragon of unbiased
journalistic excellence, the "Conservative Chronicle."  I suggest that if
you want to further your cause, use the "Conservative Chronicle" only as a
starting point, read real newspapers (a number of them, the more the better),
and go to the library for some more research.  You are not convincing a
whole lot of people quoting from the "Conservative Chronicle."

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