[mburbank]

If the intent was to 'further insure excellence' head start would get fully funded, as it was originally envisioned. Something that has never been the case since it's inception.

As far as Propaganda goes, that's a word that's being flung around on these bits quite a bit lately, and it's usually coupled with disdain for the other person view point and credulity and overweening pride in ones own view point and clarity.

The word has acquired conotations (not necessarily found in it's deffinition) of carefully crafted lies in service of an insidious agenda.
If that's what you meant, Shach, I think that's a little on the paranoid side of the slope and shows a faith in the lefts organizational abilities I only wish it had. If you mean something less than that, I think Propoganda is such an abused word it's lost it's utilty.