Help Us with Public Education, Donald

American Thinker ^ | December | Richard F. Miniter

[Kaslin]

I have one great hope for a no-nonsense, business-oriented Donald Trump administration.

It's that the Federal Government finally begin to ask what the return was, and is, for money spent – just as every private enterprise, from the window cleaner's one-man show to Exxon's army of thousands, is forced to do.

Take for example WIC – the Women, Infants, and Children federal nutrition program. Very similar to food stamps, WIC spends billions and billions of tax dollars and in great measure was implemented because somebody noticed that drug-addled mothers were not feeding their children nutritious meals. Well? What happened? Have the dopers started baking their children homemade chicken pot pies? Or are they just buying their boyfriends more crack with the WIC assistance?

It's a question the Obama administration would never ask and was terrified of asking, but it must be asked and answered if you're a sensible steward of the taxpayer's money.

Another example is the close to a million civilian employees the Department of Defense has. Can't they get by with less? Say, with the much smaller proportion of civilians to the uniformed, the likes of which it employed during the height of World War II, when the military and naval establishments were fifteen times the size they are now?

But if you're going to hunt where the greatest number of ducks gathers it's hard to choose between the bloated Defense Department and an area in which federal and state resources commingle on a grand scale: K-12 education.

[wintertime]

I often wonder what people think when there is a sale on diet Mountain Dew and my cart is **loaded up**!

( I love the stuff.)

[miss marmelstein]

I’m a bit of a foodie so I’m curious to see what everyone is putting together. Lots of people buy tons of soda. Nothing unusual where I am!

[ReagansShinyHair]

Yeah, online I have seen many WIC users ranting about not being able to buy organic milk and stuff like that with WIC. The entitlement mentality is incredible. They actually believe that regular people all buy organic milk, too, which is kind of staggeringly stupid considering the supermarket has a tiny bit of organic milk in stock, but racks and racks of the regular stuff that “no one buys.”