The hubris of the government planners varies between scary and laughable. Social engineers are whining in the press that thousands of “eligible†children are not enrolled in the government health “insurance†plan. Their solution, of course, is to spend a lot of your money to “educate†wayward parents into placing kids in the care of government bureaucracy. It never occurs to these folks that maybe moms and dads aren’t excited about letting whining bureaucrats take care of junior.
Their solution, of course, is found in multi-million-dollar advertising campaigns that “reach out†to parents and encourage them to get the kids hooked on the government teat.
“Texas is a very large state, and it’s very difficult to get that information out,” said the CHIP/Children’s Medicaid outreach campaign manager Geoff Wool, according to the Austin American Statesman.
Am I the only person on the planet who is outraged that a government program has a campaign manager? Pretty soon it’ll be doing a late-night talk show, “How To Hook Your Family On Government Dependency And Chunk Responsibility Out The Door!â€
