Scarcity

Rosa Maria Pegueros has a few things to explain regarding Bush's support of the decline of education (among other things). Snippet:

The plain fact of the matter is that our schools, universities, and other public institutions are going to hell while Bush finds new ways to cancel his cronies’ fiscal contributions to public life. Senator Walter Mondale lost the 1980 election, in part, because he told the American people that he was not going to sugarcoat it; he would raise taxes. Reagan won, crippled the American social system by destroying legal aid, emptying the mental institutions, spending us into a blinding deficit by spending a fortune on weapons of mass destruction and the development of Star Wars weapons. Bush I followed in his wake declaring that we should read his lips: No New Taxes. Eventually, he had to break his promise but it took the president who defeated him, Bill Clinton, to bring the budget under control. I can’t imagine who will be able to bring Bush II’s deficits under control.