A Reader Questions Government Priorities

I was simply astounded to read that the deputy director of the Community Care Licensing Division of the State Department of Social Services, one Fred Miller, is proposing that family day care be deregulated so that California taxpayers can save $3.5 million (“Policing Day-Care Providers,” Aug. 29).

It is pathetic how children are so devalued in our society. Dog kennels are inspected twice a year and good old Fred Miller wants to eliminate the yearly inspection of day care centers, because it provides a “false sense of security.”

However, people are so in love with animals that now there is a proposal to build tunnels under the freeways (at a cost of $5 million) so that the little creatures can go from one side to the other without danger.

JOAN WAGNER

Lakewood