We live next door to a Head Start facility. It´s been pathetic this week, to watch ´em wheeling out bodies by the wheelbarrow-load!

/sarcasm

This would be the same ´Head Start´ that study...after study...after study...

Shows basically *no* beneficial effects just a year or so later - and in fact apparently imparts some distinct ´negative´ traits?

Which has sucked, since it´s inception - 180 *Billion* dollars of taxpayer monies, and has just been handed by the Obama administration - another ´boost´ in funding - DESPITE the hard evidence that this boondoggle is doing nobody any good.

Very disappointing that the Federal government is having no better educational results itself than the 1st graders it´s bought the nation.

Excellent story related - FOX News, 1/14/2013

"Head Start" just isn´t the same since the days of Monica Lewinsky.

Just heard really terrible story on Rush...Veteran´s wife needs referral for new health problem and office has already been closed for sequester for days. Should have been a month til closure

Head start should have been gone a long time ago. This is a WASTE program like Lifeline Phone assistance program. Both could be eliminated.

Why can anyone use the word "liar" when talking about Obama? Exaggerated, misspoke... Mickey Mouse PC that lets this beast continue to get away with outright lying and all his tricks dedicated to taking this country down. I´m particularly disappointed with a publication like the Weekly Standard. It´s time to call this man who and what he is: a liar.

It´s also time to consider the seriousness involved when the entire world knows the President of the United States is a liar. I can´t think of a single other President who was openly known as liar and allowed by the media to get away with it. There have been several bad Presidents bad but nothing even approaching the evil of Barack Obama. Even Clinton occasionally told the truth. It tells us a great deal about the level of menace Obama represents and even more about a nation that doesn´t seem to think it matters.

Apparently "appears to have exaggerated" is the fear-of-being-called-a-racist way of saying Obama "lied."

There...fixed.

Shouldn´t Truth-In-Spending Laws require that this program be labeled...
"Fed Start" ... ?

After all... It´s for kids who, later in life, may very likely matriculate at...
Klub Fed...

This program gets them off on the wrong, er, right... foot.

#3, thanks for the laugh of the day!
(At least for me...)
Speaking of education, and Monica...
Did you know that, starting in the sixth grade, every year her classmates voted
Monica... "Most Likely To Succeed"... ?
And eventually it was proved true.
Ahhhh... education.

Thank you #6, for stealing my thunder. And saying it much better than I could.

Maybe they should have ended all the Obamaphone service, collected the Obamaphones and sold them on Ebay - probably could have made money.

Want to hear cries of pain just eliminate this baby sitting service.

It is more than clear that Obama is a liar. Agree with #6. Why can´t they just say it? Even the title of this article is tepid and meek. Obama. Is. A. Shameful. Liar. See? Not so hard.

I heard the bloated and stupid Bob Beckel on The Five say that flights were cancelled all over the midwest yesterday for the sequester...

Note to Bob!: They were cancelling planes because of the winter storm in which they found themselves.

This is how community organizers operate.

The best Head Start program is a mom and dad committed to their children´s future. Nothing will ever take the place or is as effective as parental involvement.

I would actually like to suggest a new entitlement: it would be free classes to teach math to innumerate Democrats. The President could join Maxine Waters as the first students.

What´s also been exaggerated is the effects of Head Start.

With no curriculum, Head Start is, for all intents and purposes, a very expensive baby sitting program.
One solid indicator that something´s fishy may be that the non-print media never, ever go into an actual Head Start facility and give the viewer/taxpayers a look at what´s going on.
That a politician doesn´t want to drag a camera into a Head Start facility says it all.

Head Start is a communist program to get the first hand in the game of programming children

DEFUND IT ... NOW

#1 LOL, expect MSNBC to lead with your idea on every show using the "bring out your dead" clip from Monty Python & the Holy Grail.

Head Start has been nothing more than free goobermint day care. Very expensive day care for the taxpayers.

Yes, Head Start is just an overgrown, overfunded babby sitting agency. And they are not alone. My wife drove a school bus for several years and you should see some of the childeren that she had to deliver to the public schools. Some of those kids were very mentally challenged that they could even go the the bathroom on their cwn.

Actually, probably over half of feder programs need to be shut down. There is so much overlap in programs that it´s hard to find who is supposed to be in charge. And the programs themselves don´t even correct any perceived problam they were created to fix. Anyone ever hear of a program that worked so well that is was shut down because the problem was fixed? In my 68yrs, I never have.

Now Barky´s defenders must re-calculate their degree of willingness to support and defend the lies of a President who´s act is crashing and burning. Hellenic Hubris transforms a smooth and careful liar into a moody and impatient liar. Most of the toadies will hang in there but those who have bothered to take even the most cursory interest in Ancient Greek Lit know that they have seen this movie before and it does not end well for the protagonist or his loyal followers.

"Head Start" sounds better than "It´s 7 AM! Get these heathens on the school bus so I can crack a beer and light a cigarette."

The President is calling Head Start a daycare program. Get your lie straight, POTUS. Is it daycare the government is providing baby-mama´s, or is it education. Because I thought the rubric was that it´s education, not babysitting. (It´s a loser on either count.)

Back in the ´60s, when Head Start was created, people could be forgiven for being naively idealistic.

Probably a large majority of Americans back then thought that those Great Society programs would, really, "end poverty."

Now we know that Head Start -and all welfare programs- not only have had NO positive impact on poverty, but they actually make it worse.

Same holds true for many gov´t subsidized anti-drug programs, such as D.A.R.E. But if you dare to cut D.A.R.E. programs, even in my majority-Republican area, the soccer moms screech!

If it were a drinking game every time BHO lied, AA would be overrun with new clients.