Do Americans Care More About War than Education?
Liz Dwyer has a good post up on American spending priorities. She argues that Americans place far too much emphasis on national defense, and way too little on education. I tend to agree. Our defense budget is out of control, and we’re in three too many wars for my taste.
Liz passes along a handy chart to help illustrate how out-of-control our defense spending really is:
Obama the Politician
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Elia Isquire writes:
In general, I think it’s a good rule of thumb whenever you come across an interesting poll result concerning the President’s reelection chances to assume that it’s something he saw at least a week ago, probably in greater detail. And, clearly, our citizens is not learning. I fully expect Obama to be reelected (as long as the economy doesn’t double-dip), but you can’t blame the guy for shifting rightwards if he sees that, when push comes to shove, he’s only beating Mikefrickin‘ Huckabee by two percentage points.
You know, sometimes I forget that the Presidential choices we have right now as a country are between Bad and End of the World Bad. Those are the moments when I start furrowing my brow and thinking about the ways the President could do this, that or the other thing better. In that