We could have hired 15 million teachers...

[Zoroastor]

...with what we spent on the military last year.

http://cons-lie.com/2010/06/21/worldusa-spend-more-on-arms-despite-financial-crisis/

[stray cat]

1. or by keeping the estate tax intact instead of lapsing for 6 months

[msongs]

2. the US MArines have a better lobby than teachers and parents nt

[Zoroastor]

3. sad but true....

... even though the hate talkers will tell you the teachers unions have single handedly destroyed the country.

[Golden Raisin]

4. Except the Educational goal is

to have an un- or under-educated serf class, struggling to survive economically, with the poorest serving as cannon fodder for our imperial wars, and, while we sill have elections, voting exactly the way Fox News tells them. The last thing they want is an educated electorate.