Jeff Stahler for March 05, 2013

“In the United States, a furlough is a temporary unpaid leave of some employees due to special needs of a company”

Hmm. Didn’t know that. Interesting, learn something new every day. Now, how does one pronounce it?(pron.: /ˈfɜrloʊ/; from Dutch: “verlof”) I knew “verlof”, same as in Afrikaans, so is fɜrloʊ similar?…crap, I don’t know how to read fɜrloʊ.“fur – low”? How does verlof “(fur-law-f”) end up as “fur-low”?Tch. Anyway, don’t mind me, I have no opinion on this sequester business you’re all on about. Actually, from what I’ve been reading on this forum, most of you seem a tad confused by it all, too. Tch, tch.

Scott, you can’t cut government without cutting jobs, unless you look for waste. Despite all the conservative moaning, there is very little waste outside the defense department (if there were, Paul Ryan would be able to cite actual examples instead of making up fake stories about research into goldfish). So if you want more jobs, we need more spending. It’s a pretty simple equation.

There are studies that prove you wrong sir. These studies suggest that the program increases test scores and the chances that participants (mostly children from low income families) will finish high school and go to college. Not to mention the widely accepted theory is that early childhood education teaches children not only cognitive skills, but also a wider range of soft skills — such as persistence and the ability to get along with others.

In short your rhetoric is just another Republican talking point of keeping America stupid. Quite sad.

And yet the Head Start Impact Study shows that the positive effects of the program vanished by the end of the first grade. All this at the cost of $7 billion per year. Wasted money.

Head Start allows a parent to work while the student is in class increasing family income to the point of possibly getting off “welfare”, food assistance, etc. It is a good program but not the answer to everything.

More proof the Republicans LOVE women, they never disrespect them, there is no war on women (place sarcasm here).