Tax Dollars At Work

So my friend Windsor wrote an article for The American Spectator this week that covers the failed D.C. Summer Jobs program. Not only did the program basically pay kids to do nothing all summer, but it cost 52.4 million dollars - up from an original budget of $14.5 million. Even the former mayor is dogging on the program.

Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, who created the program 29 years ago, called this year's "the most mismanaged programmatically and financially in the history of the program."

When you have a certified crack-head telling you that your program is joke, it's time to take a deeper look at what your doing and re-group. So it only makes logical sense that D.C. has now decided to set aside $2.7 million to PAY students to attend class.

For years, school officials have used detention, remedial classes, summer school and suspensions to turn around poorly behaved, underachieving middle school students, with little results. Now they are introducing a program that will pay students up to $100 per month for displaying good behavior.

Could you imagine being paid to go to school, by the government, when you were in middle school? Now imagine that you are paying for children (not your own) to go to school, because that's exactly what's happening. This decision is the brainchild of Michelle Rhee, who has been heralded as the new savior of the D.C. school system. This is the big idea she came up with. So instead of placing the burden of raising the child on the actual parents of the children in school, she places the responsibility in the hands of the hard workers who pay taxes and never got paid to receive their education. What welfare state?