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2005-07-08 Home Front: Politix

The Governator Wins NoTax Increase / No Deficit Budget

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Posted by .com 2005-07-08 03:52|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The budget provides $3 billion more for schools and brings total education spending, including higher education, to $61 billion, a record for the state.

This is just like sending more money to Africa. It'll all disappear with no truely measureable results to show to justify the expenditure.

Posted by Chavish Grilet6152 2005-07-08 09:00|| 2005-07-08 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 ...total education spending, including higher education, to $61 billion...

$61 billion!?!? Holy Freaken' Moley! That is 13.5% of the TOTAL DOD budget for 2005!

Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-08 09:27|| 2005-07-08 09:27|| Front Page Top

#3 mmurray__

I read someplace that if California were a separate country, it would rank in the top 10 in terms of the GNP.

Posted by Hupolutch Whereger2897 2005-07-08 14:10|| 2005-07-08 14:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Would feel better about the $61B if more California high school graduates could read and write English OR balance a checkbook.

Posted by Random thoughts 2005-07-08 14:16|| 2005-07-08 14:16|| Front Page Top

#5 The US spends (per NationMaster) 7.0% of its GDP in education (all levels), while government spending is 4.7% of GDP. That is the highest of all industrialized countries. It isn't the amount, but the poor return on investment of tax funded K-12 education that is controversial.

1.United States 7.0% of GDP
2.Denmark 6.7% of GDP
3.Sweden 6.5% of GDP
4.Canada 6.4% of GDP
5.France 6.1% of GDP
6.Australia 6.0% of GDP
7.Norway 5.9% of GDP
8.New Zealand 5.8% of GDP
9.Switzerland 5.7% of GDP
10.Austria 5.7% of GDP

Posted by ed 2005-07-08 14:28|| 2005-07-08 14:28|| Front Page Top

#6 I blame the poor quality of students these days.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-08 14:32|| 2005-07-08 14:32|| Front Page Top

#7 7% for Edumacation, yes, that is good. And 7% for you regular UN Dues. And 7% to the UN for African Aid, um, thingys. And 7% for General Aid thingys. And 7% for Emergency Aid thingys. And 7% for the UN's Peacekeeping thingys. And 7% for the new digs that are so urgently required. And 7% for Kyoto thingys (pre-real-world math, that is). And 7% reparations for Afghanistan and Iraq cuz you did so many terrible things to the infrastructure there.

Send the Armored Cars, a lump sum each month would be fine, in unmarked bills, to me directly, please. I will be keeping the books on this one. Sevan is unavailable. Thank you for giving your Fair Share.

Posted by .Jan 7% Egeland 2005-07-08 14:41|| 2005-07-08 14:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Little known secret. When those international test that compare high schools students are administered, the US gives them to a sample of _all_ high school kids. When Europe, Japan, et al give the test, they only give them to their college prep kids -- what they would call in Germany a Gymnasium or in France a Lycee. Remember that in countries outside the US, most kids don't get to go to a regular high school. At 13 or 14 you take a test and most kids end up in a "vocational" school with no shot at college at all.

It's part of the whole culture of "bureaucratic failure" we have here in the US. No one gets funded by succeeding. So you jiggle the figures to prove that the US has the dumbest kids in the world, or that we have the highest rate of infant mortality in the developed world (hint: we count much younger premies than anyone else), whine to city hall, the state house and Congress, and the money flows in.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-07-08 17:28|| 2005-07-08 17:28|| Front Page Top

#9 It'll all disappear with no truely measureable results to show to justify the expenditure.

Not to worry. At the very least, what we'll get for our money will be half-educated kids of illegal immigrants. This is on top of the half-educated kids of Americans and legal residents...

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-07-08 17:41|| 2005-07-08 17:41|| Front Page Top

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