Federal agriculture, education programs among first to face budget cuts

The Washington Post reports:

These, apparently, were the worst ideas in Washington.

An Agriculture Department program was supposed to bring broadband access to rural areas that didn't have it. Instead, it often brought broadband to suburbs that did.

An Education Department program spent $911 million to create schools-within-schools but achieved only "modest or neutral" academic improvement.

Another education program - designed to help parents and children learn reading together - spent $1.6 billion. But a study found it had little effect.

Theft through majority voting.