Joe Peters wrote:

The teenybopper Olson twins and Britney Spears are millionaires, and
set for life. Kobe Briant gets payed millions of dollars to chase
after a ball. So does everyone else in the professional sports
industry.

Many more have valuable skills, but are struggling just to find work.
The cure for cancer these days is not as valuable as winning the
season title. Many others are dying of starvation and disease, all
while people are spending millions annually to watch sporting events
and listen to "oops I did it again".

Can you feel your world falling apart???

Entertainer gate is a fraction of the paying audience. R&D gets
nothing because the audience is R&D management - negligible in all
possible ways. Sales & Marketing get commissions because they have
large paying audiences. Any entertainer who is a big draw is an
instant millionaire because even one meager buck/head will do it.

Now, put on long pants and look at the real problems: illegal search
and seizure at airports, 0200 hrs invasion of your home, highway
robbery of your wallet. Does this put it in perspective?

Fiscal 2003 Homeland Severity, $37.7 billion
Fiscal 2003 War on Drugs, $19.2 billion
Fiscal 2003 Project Head Start, $6.7 billion
Fiscal 2003 National Science Foundation, $5 billion

Slum bunnies have higher fiscal priority than physical science. How
many NMRs, EPRs, IRs... electronic balances do slum bunnies need to
buy? Do they pay 80% academic overhead to support departments of
English Literature, Black History, and Wymyn's Studies that cannot
support themselves even by selling blood plasma twice a week?

Plinking greasers and imprisoning innocents have the way highest
priority of all. Who voted for that? International Space Station
Freedom FUBAR Space Hole One Alpha is budged fiscal 2003 for $1.5
billion all by its lonesome - not including shipping (the lamentable
Space Scuttle) and handling.

http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/Archive/U.20020208.FY_2003_Budget_Req/U.20020208.FY_2003_Budget_Req.htm
Homeland Severity
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/03/01/3c7f529609ac8?in_archive=1
War on Drugs
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/hsb/research/2003.htm
Project Head Start
http://www.aip.org/enews/fyi/2002/015.html
International Space Station Freedom FUBAR Space Hole One Alpha

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Uncle Al wrote in message ...
Joe Peters wrote:
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Fiscal 2003 Homeland Severity, $37.7 billion
Fiscal 2003 War on Drugs, $19.2 billion
Fiscal 2003 Project Head Start, $6.7 billion
Fiscal 2003 National Science Foundation, $5 billion

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Well checking the Headstart stats page the average cost per child is
$6,934, with New York and Virgin Islands at aprox $8500!!! There is
something wrong here, I could understand variations in per child
funding due to variations in cost of living, but the US has a GDP of
$37,600 whilst the Virgin Islands GDP stands at only $19,000. You
cannot tell me that the cost of labor in the Virgin Islands is on
parity to New York. Education is a service industry; its principle
costs are labor.

Something is wrong with this picture, is it not?

mek wrote:
Uncle Al wrote in message ...

Joe Peters wrote:

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Fiscal 2003 Homeland Severity, $37.7 billion
Fiscal 2003 War on Drugs, $19.2 billion
Fiscal 2003 Project Head Start, $6.7 billion
Fiscal 2003 National Science Foundation, $5 billion

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Well checking the Headstart stats page the average cost per child is
$6,934, with New York and Virgin Islands at aprox $8500!!! There is
something wrong here, I could understand variations in per child
funding due to variations in cost of living, but the US has a GDP of
$37,600 whilst the Virgin Islands GDP stands at only $19,000. You
cannot tell me that the cost of labor in the Virgin Islands is on
parity to New York. Education is a service industry; its principle
costs are labor.

Something is wrong with this picture, is it not?

I'm not familiar with the situations. Some ideas.
Smaller scale infrastructure, eg smaller classes,
smaller schoolhouses are more expensive.
When the schools are spread out more, they may include
feeding the children and perhaps a school bus to fetch them,
whereas in a city it may not.


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