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2004-06-01 Fifth Column

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Posted by Tibor 2004-06-01 4:16:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Does anybody watch this idiot anymore? Or 60 minutes?

Still to tell such bold-faced lies....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-06-01 9:18:56 AM|| 2004-06-01 9:18:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Could CBS maybe get somebody on that show who's under 85 years old? I expect one of them to actually keel over on the air someday.

Posted by tu3031 2004-06-01 9:47:38 AM|| 2004-06-01 9:47:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 http://www.policyalmanac.org/education/archive/doe_education_spending.shtml
Nearly $373 billion of revenues were raised to fund public education for grades prekindergarten through 12 in school year 1999â2000.
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Total expenditures made by school districts came to nearly $382 billion (K-12, ed) in the 1999â2000 school year. About $324 billion of total expenditures were current expenditures for public elementary and secondary education. An additional $35 billion went for facilities acquisition and construction, $8 billion for replacement equipment, and another $9 billion for interest payments on debt. The remaining amount ($5 billion) was spent on other programs, such as community services and adult education, which are not part of public elementary and secondary education.

University funding in 2000 was $190 billion.
http://chronicle.com/free/almanac/2000/facts/nation.htm#money

Add to that preschool, and adult education.

The Milliary budget for 1999-2000 was $270 billion. Add another $30 billion for intelligence agencies.

Rooney is exercising his First Amendent right to espouse the Big Lie. It's much easier to say a lie than to disprove it.

Posted by ed 2004-06-01 10:23:10 AM|| 2004-06-01 10:23:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Does anybody watch this idiot anymore? Or 60 minutes?

Speaking for myself, no and no.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-01 10:36:43 AM|| 2004-06-01 10:36:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 He's using the numbers from the estimated 2005 federal budget. Of course he knows that education is funded primarily at the local and state level, but admitting that would interfere with his playing at being Lord Haw-Haw.

Posted by Anonymous5074 2004-06-01 10:54:34 AM|| 2004-06-01 10:54:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 U.S. defense expenditures are forecast to be 3.5% of GDP for FY2004. defense spending link
U.S. public expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP 1998-2000 was 4.8% (this excludes private expenditures) education spending link

Posted by Biff Wellington 2004-06-01 11:38:17 AM|| 2004-06-01 11:38:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't his doctors perscribe Paxil for dementia?

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-01 12:03:01 PM|| 2004-06-01 12:03:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Ed, Biff, et al., thanks for doing my homework for me. It was late and I wasn't up to focusing on the research.

On the point about memories, I have many happy and many sad memories. When I reflect, I choose to focus mostly on the happy memories. It's no surprise to me that a twisted, bitter old fruit such as Rooney would have mainly sad memories. "Didja ever notice that I'm an obnoxious @sshole? I mean, seriously, am I a whiny little bitch or what?"

I think Rooney's on-air transformation from garden variety curmudgeon to outright lefty is of a piece with those of Rather, Cronkite, Koppel, etc., who try to "keep it real" as they approach their dotage and irrelevancy by becoming more outspoken and obvious (but not honest) in their biases.

Posted by Tibor 2004-06-01 12:09:25 PM|| 2004-06-01 12:09:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "walking home on a cool night with an exceptionally pretty girl, slightly inebriated, singing "Buffalo Gals" for no particular reason."

That led Jimmy Stewart to want to jump off a bridge. And if I see that mush one more time, I'll want to jump off a bridge. And the same for Andy Rooney.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-06-01 12:40:25 PM|| 2004-06-01 12:40:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Rooney's comment on education applies to the Federal government only. Education receives more funding at the local, state and federal levels combined than does the DoD. This is just an argument to increase the power of the Federal govewrnment in education.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-06-01 12:50:20 PM|| 2004-06-01 12:50:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Tibor, when Rooney was just a cumudgeon, he could be funny, but, recently he seems to be off the medications. . .

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-01 4:57:07 PM|| 2004-06-01 4:57:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 BigEd, I know. He should stick to complaining about misleading packaging and whether his eyebrows should be trimmed.

Posted by Tibor 2004-06-01 5:20:38 PM|| 2004-06-01 5:20:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 It's kinda sad, the way they can find a single TV news reporter with that certain gravitas, who is not actually qualified for membership in AARP. It's like a TV production workshop in a retirement home.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-06-01 5:32:35 PM|| [www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-06-01 5:32:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Good article and good job, Tibor!

Posted by .com 2004-06-01 5:40:36 PM|| 2004-06-01 5:40:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Great job, Tibor. And well thought out and written comments, as usual, Fred. Memories, memories, mammaries, where do I begin? Oh, yes, I was kinda amused when I saw the bit that Andy Rooney put out on trying to find the Mrs. Smith of Mrs. Smith's Pies. Then I quit watching him altogether.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-01 11:31:54 PM|| 2004-06-01 11:31:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Methinks he's Michael Moore's Dad.

Posted by .com 2004-06-01 11:34:53 PM|| 2004-06-01 11:34:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Thanks for that ghastly mental image, .com.

With regard to the reproduction of organisms such as Rooney and Moore, I have only one word: budding.

Posted by Quana 2004-06-02 12:09:09 AM|| 2004-06-02 12:09:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 I offer an unnecessary amendment, much like the update for Earth's entry in the Hitchhiker's Guide (harmless => mostly harmless), to wit:
asexual budding

I did admit it was not really necessary, heh... ;->

Posted by .com 2004-06-02 12:22:06 AM|| 2004-06-02 12:22:06 AM|| Front Page Top

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