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I would think that most people would agree that education is important.

Than why is there is all out assault on Education? Some even wanting to eliminate the Sec of Education.
Our kids have to study more to survive in this world. Just apparently with out any money to pay for it.


GOP Proposes Severe Cuts to Education---and Special Education---Budgets
posted by: Kristina Chew

Special education, usually a Republican priority, could face cuts of $557 million, if a bill introduced by House Republicans last Friday passes.


Says EdWeek:



The measure, which would continue federal funding for rest of the fiscal year, takes aim at some programs that were previously considered untouchable, including special education spending and Pell Grants to help low-and-moderate income students pay for college. Overall it would cut $4.9 billion from the U.S. Department of Education's fiscal year 2010 budget of $63.7 billion.

"This absolutely would be the largest cuts ever in history for education programs," said Joel Packer, a principal with the Raben Group in Washington, who works with the Committee for Education Funding, a coalition that advocates for increasing education spending.

Programs that would be 'scrapped entirely' include: Even Start Family Literacy program ($66.5 million); Striving Readers program ($250 million); Literacy Through School Libraries ($19 million). In additional, earmarked funds for the Special Olympics, Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic, and Rehabilitation Services and Disability Research, will be cut.
( You're on Your Own Kids )

Today's WTF Moment is Brought to You By South Dakota Republicans........

South Dakota Legislature To Approve Murdering Abortion Providers
posted by: Robin Marty

It was well understood out here in the Midwest that after the 2010 elections, abortion rights were going to be highly curtailed in our states. I sat in on conference calls discussing the various things reproductive rights activists could expect to see in the next legislative session: personhood bills, removal of public funding from any entity that provided abortion, more waiting periods, ultrasounds, hoops and hurdles, even outright bans, regardless of how unconstitutional the laws would be.

But no one ever thought we would actually see a bill stating abortion providers could be murdered under "justifiable homicide."

Not until South Dakota, that is.

Via Mother Jones:


A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and is expected to face a floor vote in the state's GOP-dominated House of Representatives soon.

"The bill in South Dakota is an invitation to murder abortion providers."

The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Phil Jensen, a committed foe of abortion rights, alters the state's legal definition of justifiable homicide by adding language stating that a homicide is permissible if committed by a person "while resisting an attempt to harm" that person's unborn child or the unborn child of that person's spouse, partner, parent, or child. If the bill passes, it could in theory allow a woman's father, mother, son, daughter, or husband to kill anyone who tried to provide that woman an abortion—even if she wanted one.
( State Sponsored Murder? )