Sit Still or I’ll Spend Another Half Billion Dollars!

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Sit Still or I’ll Spend Another Half Billion Dollars!
CNSNews.com reports on the federal government’s latest brainstorm:

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that the administration’s new $500 million early learning initiative is designed to deal with children from birth onward to prevent such problems as 5-year olds who “can’t sit still” in a kindergarten classroom.

“You really need to look at the range of issues, because if a 5-year-old can’t sit still, it is unlikely that they can do well in a kindergarten class, and it has to be the whole range of issues that go into healthy child development,” Sebelius said during a telephone news conference on Wednesday to announce the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge.

It makes you wonder what became of 5-year-olds who went to school before these geniuses decided to spend $500 million in taxpayer money to make them sit still.

Oh wait, some of them grew up into the geniuses who have now decided to spend $500 million in taxpayer money to make 5-year-olds sit still. If we can prevent that from happening again, maybe the expenditure is worth it.

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NOTE:  James Taranto is traveling.  Today’s post is from the 5/27/11 BOTW Archives.