Bass ackwards

[ratphooey]

In inflation-adjusted terms, annual US military spending has risen more than 70 percent since 2001.

More than 70%.

Yet people want to cut education, and medicare, and social security? While GE pays no tax, and big oil receives government subsidies?

Pennsylvania tax revenues are running an unexpected $500M surplus, yet the governor wants to

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[drinkingcocoa]

Yeah, we just got the letter saying that kindergarten is going to half-days next year because of funding cuts. Who knows what it'll be by the time our younger sprogs will be entering.

[ratphooey]

#2 starts in the fall (RBCS begins at 4k). Had a timely decision been made, we could have kept him at preschool the other half of the day.

(As a charter school, RBCS isn't bound by the District's plans, but may of course have to adjust based on funding.)

The expectation seems to be that the program will not, in fact, be cut; that the plan was just the opening salvo to get other concessions, but who knows?

[trinker]

Class warfare, and looting the treasury a la banana republics. *sigh*