George Bush 43 doubled the budget at the Department of Education over eight years to roughly $32 billion. Barack Obama more than double it again with the only bloated budget the Democrat congress ever dared to pass.
That first Obama budget increased spending at the Department from Education from $32 billion per year in 2009 to $71,000,000,000.00 (Billion) per year by 2011. That works out to over $400 million more dollars spent per school day nationally (assuming 180 days of school), in addition to all the state or local taxes you also pay for public education. And Obama want’s more. For what you ask?
Unions and union dues if the truth were told, but it wont be. No matter what the spin is we can see the “benefit” of giving a $70 Billion per year public education gratuity to a bloated DC bureaucracy. Seventy-one percent of New Hampshire public school have failed to meet the pathetically un-challenging improvement benchmarks from a ridiculously simple regional testing scheme.
This is not a problem limited to New Hampshire. And Obama’s solution….is to double down on failure, and take even more money away from the towns and states to waste on his leviathan bureaucracy.
Democrats at every level just throw money at a problem and insist it will somehow get better. And when it doesn’t they throw more money at it. There is no evidence that this has ever worked, but it’s not their money so why should they care.
