EXACTLY!!!

[kpete]

[liberal N proud]

1. Absolutely

[Scuba]

2. If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ...

... just what is it the defense budget is defending?

[brer cat]

3. !

[Igel]

4. We can afford to educate our children.

All the increase in K-12 ed spending in the US hasn't done much good.

Some things, like smaller classroom size or early childhood intervention, make a difference, but that difference is often short-term or modest and only is seen for some populations. For others it's pretty meaningless. And there's a limit to what EC programs and smaller class size get you and the law of diminishing returns kicks in fairly quickly.

There are schools and districts where the level of spending is so low as to adversely impact the average student. That's not most of them. However because this is true somewhere it's very easy to scapegoat spending as the excuse everywhere.

Thing is, I don't think all the scapegoats are a luxury we can afford to have. It takes money to catch those goats (or raise our own), there's the quirky public ceremonies, and do you have any idea what a wilderness costs these days?

[Scuba]

5. There's no increase in K-12 spending here in Wisconsin. The public schools are being gutted ...

... and our tax dollars given to corporations posing as schools, all under the umbrella of "we can't afford it".

[ctsnowman]

10. X2

[daleanime]

6. Huh?

I would take ever 'modest' improvement we can get. Get a few and they start adding up.

[RevStPatrick]

8. I think you know the answer to that one, Scuba...

The defense budget is protecting corporate profits.

[Scuba]

9. Holy crap! Really? Does Congress know? Including the Democrats?

How come they never say anything?

[RevStPatrick]

14. They say plenty...

Mostly they say "thank you" to their corporate campaign donors.

[tosh]

17. This subthread really should

be published in comic-strip format.

[L0oniX]

7. The plan: Make education so expensive that only the rich can afford it...

so they can keep the rest of us out of their club.

[BlueStreak]

11. We (white people) are free of the rabble (black people and Muslims)

Whenever anybody goes on about "American exceptionalism" and "Our cherished freedoms", that is almost certainly what they really mean.

The prisons keep us free from the scary black people and the missiles keep us free from Sharia law.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. During Bush some Republican was really proud that we gave Iraq a really nice jail.

[indepat]

13. Scathingly delicious and apropos take on our warped RW societal priorities

[Enthusiast]

15. Exactly. Kicked and Recommended!....nt

[ck4829]

16. If only politicians and the media asked this.

[cantbeserious]

18. For The 1% - America Is The Land Of Milk And Honey

eom

[bigwillq]

19. K and R (nt)

[Wednesdays]

20. It's not just "more money" spent on military and jails...

it's MULTIPLE TIMES more money.

[myrna minx]

21. K&R n/t

[matthews]

22. I stole that from you. So does that make me an editorial

cartoon thief once removed?

[kpete]

24. you are

in a den of thieves...

peace, kp

[rhett o rick]

23. Propaganda has us scared of terrorists and hoodys. nm

[mountain grammy]

25. Yeah, Dad.. what's up with that? Who do we elect?

[WovenGems]

26. Earth Shoes

We have seen an increase in single mothers and an increase in attacks on education. So I expect to see an increase in what would have in the past been known as hippie moms. You know, the moms who had their kid reading at four and who's proudest moment is when the child skunked them at Scrabble.

[bravenak]

27. Another kid waiting for a handout.

I'm joking.