iPod For Michigan Kids

It was President Herbert Hoover who campaigned on the promise of prosperity under his administration when he vowed “a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage.” Michigan state Democrats want to do him one better: an iPod for every child. An unsigned editorial in The Detroit News is, to put it mildly, not a fan. “An iPod for every kid? Are they !#$!ing idiots?” the headline screams.

It sounds great at first, but there are many skeptics. Michigan is in the middle of a budget "crisis", so spending $38 million dollars out of the blue is strange. Worse still, they plan to increase taxes on various products (like soda) to help ease the strain on the states wallet.

Source: News.com