More Education Cogitation
So, I slept on it and began to look into our education spending a bit more. I used figures from the 2006 budget last night when I wrote the last post. Come to find out, I was a little out of touch, and the 2007 amounts are available. I can only hope that this has not been approved by Congress yet. I am already convinced that Education is in jeopardy, but this could put the last nail in its coffin. Once again, on the Washington Post web site I found a pie chart just like the one for last year.
As you can see by the pie chart, education remained at a steady three percent. The part that isn't really obvious until you look at both this chart and the one from 2006 (below) is that instead of just education it is now lumped together with training, employment, and social services to get the three percent. I guess we needed to add some programs to keep the three percent of the pie.
Now, I also found another interesting chart on the same page that shows the difference between 2006 and 2007. As you can see, education actually fell an additional 20% as projected. Interest also rose to 12%. This is a result of paying for the war in the middle east and deficit spending that has spiraled out of control since the republican administration took office.
Oh, and did I mention that the budget proposal increased total spending from $2.57 trillion in 2006 to $2.77 trillion in 2007?
Now, with an eye on this chart and the knowledge that the president has been a staunch proponent of alternative fuel development. He spent days and days running around the country on Air Force One touting his support of these programs, yet the energy budget (presumably where the money to fund new research would come from?) was cut by 63%. That is the subject for another post.
Funding for Community and Regional development was also decreased by 46%. In underdeveloped, rural areas such as redflannel country this will not help at all. Again, the subject for another post.
To finish this post off, I think that we need to start contacting our representatives and try to head this off before it gets approved. We cannot afford to degrade an already devastated education system further.
As you can see by the pie chart, education remained at a steady three percent. The part that isn't really obvious until you look at both this chart and the one from 2006 (below) is that instead of just education it is now lumped together with training, employment, and social services to get the three percent. I guess we needed to add some programs to keep the three percent of the pie.
Now, I also found another interesting chart on the same page that shows the difference between 2006 and 2007. As you can see, education actually fell an additional 20% as projected. Interest also rose to 12%. This is a result of paying for the war in the middle east and deficit spending that has spiraled out of control since the republican administration took office.
Oh, and did I mention that the budget proposal increased total spending from $2.57 trillion in 2006 to $2.77 trillion in 2007?
Now, with an eye on this chart and the knowledge that the president has been a staunch proponent of alternative fuel development. He spent days and days running around the country on Air Force One touting his support of these programs, yet the energy budget (presumably where the money to fund new research would come from?) was cut by 63%. That is the subject for another post.
Funding for Community and Regional development was also decreased by 46%. In underdeveloped, rural areas such as redflannel country this will not help at all. Again, the subject for another post.
To finish this post off, I think that we need to start contacting our representatives and try to head this off before it gets approved. We cannot afford to degrade an already devastated education system further.
posted by Red Flannel at 10:47 AM
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