Editorial sings familiar tune

The Looney Left strikes again, this time in the form of the Herald Editorial Board. Monday’s editorial attempts to label a government program as a “waste of money” and queries “Is this really government’s job?” This question refers to various portions of a Bush legacy program known as the Healthy Marriage Initiative, which is intended to encourage marriage and healthy families.

The value to children of healthy marriages and complete families is widely documented and not disputed by reasonable people. And yet The Herald apparently believes that picking up the pieces of broken lives resulting from broken homes is more cost effective than making some attempt at preventing the carnage in the first place. It’s a familiar left-wing tune, one we’ve been hearing a lot lately — government’s job is to give everyone a fish, but never teach anyone to fish.

Before I had finished the first paragraph, I feared at some point they would predictably take their lead from Sean Penn at the Oscars the night before and get in a jab for gay marriage. My fears were not misplaced as they tried to mock the Healthy Marriage Initiative by pointing out that marriage numbers would go “way up” if gay marriage was allowed.

The editorial board’s thinly veiled attempt to appear an advocate for reduced government spending does little to hide its true agenda.

Chris Johnson

Marysville