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June 03, 2004
Screwing The World's Children: Two Vignettes
*Live on Pay-Per-View, Rumsfeld the Rumbler vs. The Innocent, Neglected, Struggling and Underprepared Children of the United States*
See the mighty unbridled power of $216 billion in war appropriations knock out core education funding! Its strength will astonish you! Imagine a rock solid warrior who is:
*Nearly four times the budget of the Department of Education!
*Nearly double what the GAO said in the mid-1990s was needed to repair the nation's schools!
*24 times what it would cost to fully fund No Child Left Behind!
*43 times what it would cost to enroll the remaining 40 percent of eligible preschoolers still not in Head Start!
*848 times the cost of the Even Start family literacy program!
*1,800 times the appropriation for the (soon to be cut) national math-science partnership between high schools and universities!
*6,352 times the cost of a (likely to be cut) program to to help pay secondary school counselors!
*12,000 times the cost of a (in danger of being cut) national writing project!
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You know what's awesome? When a group of about 8 muckity-mucks has a lunch meeting and has it fully catered with selections of salmon, chicken, rice, black bean salad, rustic bread, and two kinds of brownies, and then eat like 1/25th of it, and leave piles of uneaten food plus their dirty trash in the conference room. We are outraged for the starving Chinese kids*.
*except that there are piles of really good uneaten food.
Posted by The Twins at June 3, 2004 02:38 PM
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*le sigh*
but hey, one can go grub on the leftovers! mmm.
Posted by: snowy at June 4, 2004 02:15 PM