Seems to me that states which are cutting education the most are doing it out of a slavish determination to balance their state budgets at all costs to score na

Seems to me that states which are cutting education the most are doing it out of a slavish determination to balance their state budgets at all costs to score national political points. Here in Louisiana, Bobby Jindal has given away what would have been billions of tax dollars to private industry with little to show for it, cut income and corporate taxes, slashed medical spending for the poor and indigent, and raided medical funds which were supposed to last decades all in order to fuel his idiotic political agenda. Universities have had to close entire departments in order to make ends meet, and some regional schools have even contemplated the idea of becoming junior colleges. This is at a time when the state was largely shielded from the larger national economic downturn because of the economic boom that happened during the recovery from Katrina. He will go down as the worst governor in at least the last half century, which is quite a feat, given that Kathleen Blanco and Edwin Edwards occupied the governor's mansion for nearly half that time.