TANSTAAFL = There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

I think it's incumbent upon the DOE to send to every family in this state with school-age children a simple notice stating that the money to fund this program is coming out of  their friend's and neighbor's pockets, and that it's not manna from heaven.  We don't need to encourage this kind of expectation.

In the 20th century, poorly educated Russian soldiers occupying towns settled by ethnic Germans were known to steal light bulbs from homes and businesses.  It was reported that these men fully expected to return home and screw the light bulbs into the wooden walls of their dwellings, thus introducing "free" electric lighting in the middle of rural Russia.  Like some folks in Hawaii, they believed in a kind of magic too.