Millionaires help reopen Head Start

[question everything]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/donor-helps-reopen-head-start-programs-closed-afte/nbHm9/

HALL COUNTY, Ga. —

This week, more than 7,000 at-risk children will be able to return to their Head Start classrooms after philanthropists Laura and John Arnold extended up to $10 million in emergency funding support to the National Head Start Association, officials said.

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The problem, of course, is this is what the right wingers want: to have individuals and groups helping people in need, children, the sick and the elderly instead of them relying on government programs.

[leveymg]

1. Well, the billionaires closed it, so the Arnolds almost seem like regular folks.

Righteous dudes.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Ha. Arnold, from Wiki

he is credited with making three quarters of a billion dollars for Enron in 2001 and was rewarded with an $8 million bonus

[leveymg]

3. Yup.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. While individuals and groups can help some

they still don't have- and never will have- the kind of resources to help people that we can provide at the federal level. Maybe in a simpler time in a smaller country with fewer people (in need), such limited interventions would be possible. However, we don't have that kind of situation anymore. Most right-wingers don't really believe in any kind of aid to anybody to any degree.

[question everything]

7. Agree. And one can only hope that main stream Republicans -

are there any? - can prevail.

I've once read a criticism of the work by Mother Teresa, claiming that her work absolved the Indian government from undertaking the caring for the poor.

[ancianita]

5. That only helps twenty counties out of 159 in Georgia.

[Arkana]

6. I think that's a very kind gesture, but I don't see it as any sort of long-term solution.

[question everything]

8. Certainly not. I am only afraid that this can give the RWers

something to hang on. Any excuse to abandon the poor, children and the old.

[ChazII]

9. At least a few families

and their children will be helped even if it is for a short time.

[caseymoz]

10. The wealthy make exceptions

. . . but that's part of what they demand from the rest of us: the right to be the ones to make exceptions. The right to noblis oblige, really.

It makes them feel like, even though they have hundreds of millions of dollars that they're sitting on, they're not really selfish after all.

Fact is, nobody is all bad. Even Stalin had days where he couldn't avoid doing something good, like releasing some few people from custody. He still didn't stop the mass arrests as he could have with a word.