Just when you thought the government had run out of ridiculous ideas to waste our tax money, along comes education minister Mary Hanafin and the shit-for-brains plan to give books to all newborn babies.  Apparently, the idea is to encourage reading from an early age, thus combatting illiteracy and other reading problems in later life.

Does minister Hanafin realise that newborn children will not, no matter how fucking hard you try to teach them, be able to read until they are, at the very least, 2 years old? Perhaps she thinks these books will survive two years of being torn, scribbled on and chewed so that they may be read by the children at a later stage? Does she not realise that the illiteracy problem lies with the fact that many parents do not (or cannot) read to their children and no amount of free books is going to change this? What kind of retard comes up with these ideas in the first place?

So there we have it, another day, another blatant waste of already sparse resources. More of our money slips down the tubes whilst some well-connected publisher pockets a handy fucking contract. God I love this government.

Not.

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