Let the little ones enjoy nursery rhymes

IT IS incomprehensible that when this government is claiming the country is in a huge debt crisis that they want to go out and spend millions of dollars on an exercise in political correctness regarding the wording of nursery rhymes.

I believe this is something that Kevin Rudd has raised issue with?

When will the political correctness brigade get a life and leave these things for children to enjoy, like those who for many hundreds of years (and more) before them enjoyed.

Do we really need to dissect, analyse and interpret the possible suggestive deep meanings?

Others want to totally rewrite them. I could suggest it may well be lucrative for them.

I say leave them alone they are a part of our culture, joyful imaginative fairy tales. I finish with a little rhyme:

"There once was a man called Rudd,

Who proved when in power he was a dud,

Now a person who no longer matters,

It seems that his brains have been left in tatters

Perhaps if he protests nursery rhymes are sexist,

Someone will take notice, and believe he may still exist."

Leave them alone. Don't waste taxpayers' money.

C. FROST