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30 years is a disaster. As the knowledge explosion accelerated and it became clear that the work force of the future requires better educated people, we began a steady decline. Why? Certainly not money! Inflation adjusted dollars spent between 198081 and 1990-91 rose 126 percent. Student-teacher ratio? That improved from 26-1 to 17-1. Quality of students or teachers? No.
We get less for more. Proof? Per student costs more than doubled as performance scores dropped. Comparisons? We spend 85 percent more per student than Japan, 50 percent than Germany, yet lag far behind in math, science and language.
Faced with that, do you blame Jay Katzen for voting to try something new?
Spending and Debts: In 1910, governments at all levels in the U.S. consumed about 10 percent of GNP. In 1995 that will be about 52 percent! No wonder taxes are so high, savings so low, debts soar, and our economy lags as others advance.
What do we get for the money? World class education? Low crime? Less poverty and welfare? Balanced budgets and few debts? Our industries’ world leaders? If we had those, perhaps we could surrender half our annual earnings. But we do not!
We have the worst of both worlds: governments’ policies and spending raise debts, hinder education, and seriously hurt both workers and those on welfare.
Yet Democrats still follow the advice of a famous New Dealer: “Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and
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