I have to admit, I really love the stimulus package. I love the massive onslaught of liberal spending on everything from condoms to public schools. I want to see the American people absolutely and utterly crushed beneath the weight of the government services they demanded in democratic election after democratic election, because it’s the only way three generations of idiots will be forced to acknowledge the obvious:
In 2005, the state Supreme Court ruled that the education of Kansas schoolchildren was in peril because the Kansas Legislature had not spent enough on the state’s schools. Despite the fact that by every recognized measure, Kansas schools already were near or at the top in most state rankings, the court imposed spending increases that are now helping push the state into a deep budget crisis….
Research conducted for the University of Kansas Business School’s Center for Applied Economics by Dr. Florence Neymotin, a Kansas State University assistant professor of economics, shows the massive increase of school funding in Kansas between the years 1997 and 2006 so far has had “little evidence of improving student outcomes as measured by test scores.”
Shocking, isn’t it? The next thing you know, the experts will discover that every federal dollar spent doesn’t actually deliver a 5x multiple in economic growth. A few more years of this and they may even be ready for the concept of “water is wet”.