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You're saying that we need to look at both federal and state levels of funding for both education and military. Sure, if that's the only way you can consider th
by latchkey 3y ago
You're saying that we need to look at both federal and state levels of funding for both education and military. Sure, if that's the only way you can consider things. If you add it all up across the entire US, with your terms, which one gets more funding today, Education or Military?
Regardless, this isn't a d/ck size competition. What I'm saying is that we prioritize too much on military and too little on education. The numbers are irrelevant unless you're trying to prove we don't prioritize that way. I could easily argue against that by saying we have the best military on the planet and the dumbest kids [0].
[0] https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statisti...
- toast0 3y agoI don't need to bring better numbers to say your numbers aren't meaningful. I don't have time to find all 53? budgets for the states, territorities, and such, and probably neither do you, that's fine. If your point wasn't to compare sizes, why did you bring your numbers?
- latchkey 3y ago> If your point wasn't to compare sizes, why did you bring your numbers? I'm not the one who cares about state funding, you are. It is easy enough to say that at a federal level, we prioritize funding the military over education.
- colonCapitalDee 3y agoWe spend about twice as much money on education as we do on the military. Education spending is at 6% of GDP (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-expenditures-by-country https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...), military spending is at 2.8%.