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0 pointsD9u13y ago0 comments

Your own linked to site lists the following expenditures by the US federal government:

    Pensions = 24%
    Health Care = 24%
    Defense = 23%
    Welfare = 12%
    Interest = 6%
    Other Spending = 4%
    Transportation = 3%
    Education = 3%
    Protection = 2%
    General Government = 1%

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2013_US_fed

Who's fantasizing here?

Of course, these figures don't include so-called "black budgets" for such things as CIA/DEA/etc "front companies" from which these agencies generate & draw funds without congressional oversight.

Pensions = 24% Health Care = 24% Defense = 23% Welfare = 12% Interest = 6% Other Spending = 4% Transportation = 3% Education = 3% Protection = 2% General Government = 1%

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InclinedPlane13y ago· 2 in thread

You're being intellectually dishonest, it's not cool. The vast majority of educational spending is at the local and state level, the vast majority of defense spending is at the federal level. If you look at the totals of spending across all levels (federal, state, local) you can see how close the spending levels for education and defense are. The numbers are even summed for you.

D9uOP13y ago

Who is being "intellectually dishonest?" When you refer to "our government," I automatically assume that you mean the federal government, as I'm unsure of whether you reside in the same state as I, or not. I was referring to the federal government, and the amounts spent are consistent with the claims made above.

Were the federal government to spend as much on education as is spent on defense our nation wouldn't be as "dumbed-down" as we presently are.

In my state the schools are dilapidated, and teachers are underpaid, which results in high school graduates who are barely literate.

However, our police are well paid, well equipped, and well funded, a good portion of which is from federal sources.

My state receives roughly 29% (44th in the nation) of its funding from the federal government, and spends 25% of the total state budget on education. Of the amount spent on education, 68% goes to salaries & pensions.

If the federal government spent more on education, the respective states would be able to increase their spending on education, which is what I believed this thread to be about.

arrrg13y ago

In the US education is handled by the states while military is handled on the federal level. To look only at the federal level when talking about education doesn’t even make sense. You are a dishonest and clumsy ideologue that bends the facts to his or her will, selling a distorted picture of reality.

Maybe you want education to be handled on the federal level. That’s a valid position to take – but it still wouldn’t make sense to then only look at federal spending on education to compare it with military spending.

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