The bumper-stickers and t-shirts used to read “It will be a great day
when schools have all the money they need and the Pentagon has to hold
a bake sale to buy a bomber”.
Well, there are military families on food stamps. Other families have
had to send air conditioners and bottled water to the front lines in
Iraq. Wounded soldiers have to pay for their own food in the hospitals.
And people are organizing bake sales for the soldiers.
Unfortunately, education spending is still lousy, unless you consider
the tax cuts a roundabout way of paying for private schools. Baby
steps, I suppose…