June 10, 2003

I'd missed this over the weekend:

the Bush administration is asking Congress to allocate .. $1.5 billion in welfare funds during five years for demonstration projects on marriage education and promotion

The Agitator has some thoughts. Here are my own. The most distructive force attacking the family structure over the past half-century has been the federal government and federal taxes. Case in point. Tax payments to the government by poor and middle income folks have increased substantially since the 1950s -- forcing mother and fathers to be apart from their families in record numbers in order to pay for the increased burned of the government. In many cases, the second income doesn't even cover the increased tax burden. Another $1.5 billion pulled out of the pockets of mom and dad for the sake of another extravagant government "test" program is kind of like spitting on the wound.

P.S. - don't miss The Agitator's Atkin's diet testimonial, including this:

I've even grown philosophically attached to the Atkins diet. If ever there were a "libertarian" diet, this is it. It's a finger in the eye to that dumb food pyramid the FDA has tried to shove down our throats for the last thirty years.
Posted by Greg Ransom