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Clinton Offers Child Poverty Plan
 Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a plan to improve childhood nutrition and set a goal to reduce by half the 12 million youngsters living in poverty over the next dozen years.
| Sounds like a plan to give at least six million people money. Pretty good sized vote purchase. |
The package of proposals includes a "comprehensive" early education initiative that starts with nurse's visits for pregnant women, lets children begin the Head Start program earlier and calls for universal pre-kindergarten programs.
| Ahah. The cookies and milk from the Head Start and pre-K programs will improve their nutrition, whilst being in Head Start and pre-K will occupy their time and attention span, though not do particularly much to educate the little darlings because their minds aren't up to it at that age. |
The New York senator also says she would deal with childhood hunger by putting in place a food safety net, and give children "greater access to healthy, fresh food."
| What the hell is a "food safety net"? What're food stamps supposed to buy? And which children, particularly where, are cut off from access to healthy, fresh food? Maybe in Nome, in the middle of winter, but every place I've ever been has had a grocery store within some sort of reasonable distance, and grocery stores are notable for providing healthy, fresh food. And if that doesn't work, go to McDonald's and have a salad. We don't need a multibillion dollar bureaucracy scheduling children appointments with grocers, though I'll admit that the government could go back to handing out surplus cheese, powdered milk, butter, and other staples, which'd be healthier than buying Doritos with the food stamps -- but really, it's not my business if you do. |
She spelled out her proposals in a speech Thursday at the child care development center on Ohio University's southern campus, and toured a Head Start program serving economically challenged southern Ohio. It was part of her effort to focus the Democratic campaign on bedrock economic issues. "You should have a president again who actually gets up thinking about you every day," Clinton told about 200 people at the event. "I have spent a lifetime working to help children, which is my first passion. If our children get off to a good start so much of the other stuff is taken care of."
Posted by: Fred 2008-02-29 |
