Seriously:

With steep state budget cuts under debate in Sacramento, Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to push for changes to CalWorks and other government aid programs they said would save nearly $270 million.

Included in their suggestions is a novel proposal: Put unemployed parents to work caring for their own children.

I love how they say that such a program would "save" $270 million. Of course, if you weren't spending an unbelievable amount of money on a welfare state in the first place, you wouldn't have to "save" anything. It's like they assume that the $270 million is a normal amount that they are supposed to be spending, and they have now made a glorious achievement by "saving" it.

I question the fiscal responsibility of a government that considers paying parents to care for their kids as "saving" money.