A wall would be a great idea if Mexicans didn't know how to build tunnels.
Education is such a complex issue. I am obviously in favor of busting all public-sector unions and maybe that is a step towards better cost efficiency in our educations.
The federal spending on education is actually a pretty small percentage of overall education spending. If you look at that website I just linked, TOTAL spending by all levels of government in this country on education is $1 TRILLION
That is divided into Pre-K through 12th grade ($650 billion) vs. college/tertiary ($300 billion) and then $50 billion of "other".
Of all this $1 trillion in spending the federal government is responsible for $126 billion - about 12.6%
Not sure I agree with "cutting them off" from that 12.6% right away but I do agree with you that maybe you tell states we are going to start cutting federal monies over the next 5 years and make the goal $100 billion or target 10% of total educational spending.
It's weird but according to that website States are helping K-12 education almost not at all. "Local" governments account for $600 billion of the total $650 billion spent on K-12 education in this country.
Uhhh ... except that the numbers in that article are demonstrably false. This is a chart showing Federal spending, based on figures from the CBO:
Medicare and Social Security consume 61% of Federal spending.
The chart you presented was the on the books chart. What about the off the books spending? Donald Rumsfeld said $2.3 Trillion missing from the Pentagon budget he could not account for! Rumself was a fool, but an honest one.
http://search.myway.com/search/vide...+said+he+lost&si=204822&ss=sub&st=tab&tpr=sbt
This is equivalent to more than half the USA budget for a year. Either the business of war is too big to fail or those in the know really fear something big might happen. To scare some with facts, the USA, China, and Russia have been busy tunneling deep underground bases, some of which can hold 10,000+ people and grow their own food underground.
This is a hedge and 99% of the public is unaware. A black or dark budget if you will. So Pop isn't exactly wrong.
The chart you presented was the on the books chart. What about the off the books spending? Donald Rumsfeld said $2.3 Trillion missing from the Pentagon budget he could not account for! Rumself was a fool, but an honest one.
This is equivalent to more than half the USA budget for a year. Either the business of war is too big to fail or those in the know really fear something big might happen. To scare some with facts, the USA, China, and Russia have been busy tunneling deep underground bases, some of which can hold 10,000+ people and grow their own food underground.
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Not even close, didn't this get debunked at least once before ?
Step 5 - Single Sentence Debunking
The money was not missing, just not properly tracked, and they eventually sorted out how it was spent, and what they got for it.
Step 6 - Truth behind the quote?
As it stands the quote was true. But $2.3 trillion was never missing. The interpretation of the quote does of course have some grain of truth in it. Millions, maybe even billions of dollars "go missing" after a fashion due to accounting discrepancies - and perhaps even some illegal actions. But it certainly is not $2,300 Billion.
http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LE...on.t165//RK=0/RS=_Rf3QNOlWcH_SPn7A4go5rcZK14-
The biggest problem is there are 3 layers of government: local, state and national. Maybe we should use technology to get it down to 1.
Hell with state rights if it eliminates a layer of government.
. Do you really beleive everhtying the govermnent tells you? I do not. Maybe it wasn't 2.3 trillion, but I bet it was a huge sum of money in the billions.
Or maybe Jesse Ventura was right....
It is very clear based on this that he was making a very clear statement that the pentagon was unable to track 2.3 trillion dollars worth of transactions. That is a staggering sum of money that Rumsfeld made very clear that the pentagon is unable to track. The next day, the very next day the pentagon was hit the attacks of 9/11 and some skeptical investigators began to wonder if it was possible that there was any link between the attacks and this “missing” $2.3 Trillion.
Update: I forgot to mention, but Fetzer has not only argued that the attacks were a distraction from this announcement, but that a missile was fired at the Pentagon in an attempt to assassinate the accountants who were searching for this missing money.
Hell with state rights if it eliminates a layer of government.