Ed Feulner: “When some people hear that President Obama has proposed a new federally funded pre-school program, they might think, ‘Great idea. It’s about time.’ They’d say this, surely, because they’re unaware that Washington is already running pre-school programs. Not just one or two, in fact, but 45 early learning and child-care initiatives. No fewer than 12 of them are explicitly designed to provide early childhood education. The rest, however, also allow funds to be used for that purpose. So if the federal government is already bankrolling – rather, if you, I and other taxpayers are already bankrolling – close to four-dozen such programs right now, why do we need another one – especially one that would cost $75 billion over the next 10 years? This despite the fact that more than three-quarters of the nation’s four-year-olds are already enrolled in some form of early education and care. … We’ve all heard jokes about the ‘Department of Redundancy Department,’ but when you’re handed a real-life example like this, it’s not funny anymore. Anyone who thinks we need a 46th federal pre-school program is in need of some serious remedial education.”