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Should the government be cutting funding for elementary schools

When the United States government exercises the option to cut specific funding, it is generally looking to promote income elsewhere. However, to cut educational spending for any reason is not a bright idea. With the severe lack of nurses, medical staff, and engineers abound; the future of the United States is bleak, at best.

The country, as a whole, should feel outraged at any educational cuts.

Those types of cuts are "cutting-off-the nose-to-spite-the-face" and should be avoided at all costs. The new industries require more technical expertise. The U.S. falls short in these areas and U.S. base corporations have to farm-out quite a few positions. Are we more interested in fueling our S.U.V.'s then in training our young citizens in how to make an honest and highly profitable living. Or, are we becoming the international bullies that every other country on the planet has rumored, we are.

We, as citizens should boycott corporations and laws that do not appear to advance education whatsoever. The danger is clear and present. The concept for recovery is plain and simple. Stop spending money on violence and start spending it on instruction of the citizens. We need more doctors, that would bring the cost of health care down. We need more engineers, that would give more competition in those fields and deliver better production and higher standards. We need more learning in this country, and less foreign spending.

Sure, war is profitable. But, so is education.

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