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Re: Is Head Start "pointless," "wasteful," and "rediculous" [sic]?

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From: Steve the not-so-foolhardy
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 01:06
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aqn@tivoli.UUCP (Andy Nguyen) writes:

>> 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."

Andy, Andy, Andy.  You are obviously new to the Austin Usenet
community.  Since you are, we'll forgive your impropriety this once.
Now I'll explain the rules to you this time, but from now on you're
responsible for your own actions.  

You see, it's all very simple.  You can only take one of two possible
positions on an issue around here: either you agree with John, or
you're wrong.  Got it?


btw, according to my source, (see the March issue of _The
Ultra-Pinko-radical-Feminist-Eniro-Deadhead Times_ it's not the Head
Start program that causes all these problems that John is attributing
to it, it's the concept of 'traditional family values' that is
responsible for the mess that the country is currently in.  I defy
anyone to refute a source as athoritative as this.

steve
 
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