Wednesday, June 06, 2007
 
Don't Forget To Cut the State-Funded Violins Announcing Each Program Cut
The San Francisco Chronicle laments the death of a wasteful tax-funded project:
    For just 10 cents a day per child, California public school kids are getting to eat fresh apples, oranges and strawberries along with their Pop-Tarts and doughnuts at school breakfast.

    At least, that's been true for the last two years under the pilot Fresh Start program, designed to steer kids away from obesity and diabetes and toward healthy foods.

    But Fresh Start is in jeopardy just as preliminary reports are showing its initial success. In an effort to cover a $366 million funding gap in the education part of the state budget, the Legislature recently cut the $11.1 million that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed to keep Fresh Start going in the next school year and make it permanent.

    The cut incensed child nutrition specialists and advocates.
California has accidentally done the fiscally responsible thing and eliminated a goofball project that steps outside the bounds of the government's responsibilities. Notably, those who received the largesse are upset.


- posted by Brian J. @ 1:21 PM
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